Aboriginal kids as young as six are being asked to give environmental health assessments of their houses—and their interrogators are not housing experts, but the doctors and nurses carrying out the medical checks, writes Anna Lamboys.
Health checks
The NT intervention: crunching the numbers
Maj Gen Chalmers’ press release on the progress of the NT invervention included the claim that “over 700 children have had health checks so far.” But a government insider told NIT this morning that the number of health checks performed was actually between 400 and 500. The difference in figures, he explained, was the result of “double-counting” and “confusion”.
No signs of benchmarks in NT intervention
It’s timely, four weeks after the Government announced its “national emergency response” to sexual abuse of Aboriginal children, to ask: how will we know what difference the initiative has made? writes health journalist Melissa Sweet.
No shock and awe: AMA brush-off to Brough
The past week has seen a huge brawl develop between the offices of Mal Brough and Tony Abbott— with Abbott coming out on top.
