Indigenous health education


Dudgeon: constitution helps undo silence harming Aboriginal Australia

The causes for distress in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities leading to youth suicide are broad and steeped in historical, social and economic circumstances, as well as the contemporary choices of individuals, writes professor Pat Dudgeon, one of the “founding” people in indigenous psychology.

Can Plibersek fulfil promise on cutting indigenous smoking?

What does the new Health Minister Tanya Plibersek think of Nicola Roxon’s promise to halve the prevalence of indigenous smoking by 2018, asks associate professor David Thomas?

Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Crikey Says – 27 June, 2007

This is the last throw of the dice for John Howard. He is doing one big favour for the mining industry which he has faithfully served in public life for the past 30 years by rolling back Aboriginal ownership of their tribal lands. Cynically, cruelly but utterly predictably, he’s doing it under the hypocritical colours of humanitarianism.