Documents obtained by Crikey indicate that the Child Health Check component of the National Emergency Response is largely incompetent, probably unethical, definitely underfunded and absolutely ignores the long term.
Health check
The paradoxes of mainstreaming Indigenous Australians
A few multilingual and highly skilled individuals in the remote Indigenous community of Maningrida are being asked to provide their unique linguistic expertise for a paltry $100 a day, writes Jon Altman.
Health checks: more questions than answers
If good is to come out of this, the welcome political will in Canberra needs urgent tempering with the what we all trust will be many willing and wise voices around the country whose experience will not allow it to degenerate into a tragic fiasco.
