Indigenous Health News
The Mayor of Cape York Aboriginal community Kowanyama, Thomas Hudson, says alcohol abuse is still a problem despite its only tavern closing about a month ago.
Researchers are warning climate change will have a bigger impact on Indigenous people than it will on non-Aboriginal Australians.
A woman from Condobolin in New South Wales has been chosen as the inaugural recipient of a scholarship named in honour of the late Peter Andren.
A remote Aboriginal Health Service is struggling to attract staff to fill a fifth of its positions, despite one job being advertised for more than a year and a half.
A call for an Indigenous bill of rights is backed by the Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement.
A Northern Territory Indigenous group is handing out pairs of thongs to homeless people in Darwin to help prevent the spread of meliodosis.
The Australian Medical Association's Northern Territory branch says the Territory Government is failing to provide adequate follow-up treatment for Aboriginal children in remote communities.
The Federal Government has released a report providing a snap shot on what has come from the roll out of child health checks in Northern Territory Aboriginal communities.
A new report by the Desert Knowledge Co-operative Research Centre says pastoralists and Aboriginal people have a key role to play in helping reduce the effects of climate change.
More Aboriginal communities in the Kimberley are calling for alcohol bans.
Indigenous Health News
Fact Files
ABC HealthPetrol Sniffing fact file
Petrol sniffing is a major source of illness, death and social dysfunction in Indigenous communities - fuelled by poverty, boredom unemployment and the ready availability of petrol.
ABC HealthTrachoma fact file
Trachoma is an eye disease caused by a bacteria called Chlamydia trachomatis. It is the leading cause of blindness worldwide, and is almost entirely a disease of undeveloped countries, with one exception - Australia.
Indigenous Health Links
- Aboriginal and Torres Straig Islander Health - Department of Health and Aging
- Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet
- Indigenous communities - Australian Drug Information Network
- NACCHO - National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation
- Koori Health in Victoria
- Rural Health Education Foundation