This week the Lowitja Institute released a new guide developed to provide resources and advice for conducting health research in Indigenous communities. Crikey’s health blog Croakey explains what the guide achieves and why it is needed.
Indigenous
Federal Health Department silos a critical barrier to Aboriginal health reform
There was virtually no mention of Aboriginal health in the Federal Government’s major policy announcements on health and hospital reform, despite the fact that over half a million Australians receive comprehensive primary health care through such services, writes Garrie Gibson.
Violence in indigenous communities: tolerated and not disclosed
In some Australian Indigenous communities violence is so widespread there is an expectation that it is inevitable and is something to be tolerated and not disclosed, reads the grim conclusion to an Australian Institute of Criminology paper released this week, reports Richard Farmer.
Cancer and Indigenous health: the pitfalls of assumption-based policy
Why is there so little policy attention to the toll that cancer takes upon Indigenous Australians? Perhaps, as Daniel Vujcich explains, policy is being based on assumptions rather than the evidence.
We jail black men five times more than apartheid South Africa
In the Northern Territory, 83 per cent of the prison population is Indigenous, while Western Australia jails black males at more than eight times the rate of South Africa during Apartheid.
G4S guards still on the job, despite the death of Ribs Ward
Regardless of the outcome of the inquest, it is indisputable that Mr Ward died while in the ‘care’ of G4S employees. So why are they still on the job? asks Michael Winkler.
Who speaks for Aboriginal people? You, Warren Mundine?
With the NT Intervention again in the news, Kim Hill wasn’t pulling his punches.
NT classrooms limit indigenous languages to 1 hour a day
The NT Minister for Education, Marion Scrymgour, recently announced that indigenous languages can not be used in NT classrooms, except for one hour a day in the afternoons, writes Samanti de Silva.
Costello’s appalling record on Indigenous spending
Taxation revenue increases as economies grow. But similarly, Indigenous affairs budgets should increase in both real and percentage terms as government budgets grow. Under Costello, they shrunk, writes Chris Graham.
Closing the gaps: Don’t lose the aspirations of communities
What we risk losing here is the aspirations of communities, of peoples, of nations, says Dr Steve Cornell.
Just under the surface…
It’s normal to feel sorry, it’s just a thing people do.
