Closing the gap: tackling tobacco, alcohol-related diseases
Taskforce 'will cut Indigenous health gap'
October 11, 2008 08:05:00
The Federal Government's preventative health taskforce says tackling diseases caused by obesity, tobacco and alcohol will help to reduce the 17-year gap in life expectancy between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.
The taskforce yesterday released its first discussion paper, recommending a significant increase in the cost of cigarettes, a restriction on the opening hours of alcohol outlets, and shielding children from unhealthy food marketing.
The family of a Northern Territory man who killed himself two months ago has blamed the federal intervention for his death.
The Northern Territory police force has defended the actions of officers surrounding a death in custody in Arnhem Land.
The Government's preventative health taskforce says tackling diseases will help to reduce the Indigenous health gap.
The Family Responsibilities Commission says it has begun to quarantine people's welfare payments in four far north Queensland Aboriginal communities.
Controversial historian Keith Windschuttle has criticised the way academics have depicted the plight of Aborigines.
Indigenous groups are relieved that plans to lobby for the heritage listing of Cape York Peninsula have been dropped.
A school for Indigenous students in north-west Victoria is campaigning to fight its closure.
Winners of the 14th annual Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander awards have been announced at a star-studded ceremony held at the Sydney Opera House on Thursday.
Three building consortiums have been selected to build hundreds of new homes in remote Indigenous communities in the Northern Territory.
Three building consortiums have been selected to build hundreds of new homes in remote Indigenous communities in the Northern Territory.
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