Gulkula in north east Arnhem Land will once again this weekend host Garma, the Territory’s leading Aboriginal festival of culture and ideas. This year’s theme: Indigenous health: real solutions for a chronic problem. But there’s a Caucasian in the woodpile.
Around the world, 10,000 people die each day as a result of mistakes, complications and other harms caused by their acute health care. This makes iatrogenic harm in health care the third biggest killer...
On Wednesday, The New York Times reported on how former Surgeon General Dr Richard H. Carmona who held the peak health advisory position from 2002-06 had told a US Congressional panel on Tuesday “that top Bush administration officials repeatedly tried to weaken or suppress important public health reports because of political considerations.”
Hospital managers are so focused on keeping their political masters happy that they’ve seriously compromised their duty to the public.
We're constantly told about the numerous reports over recent decades highlighting the state of Aboriginal Australia that have been ignored or filed away. Here's Crikey's list ...
It’s been revealed that the doctor Indigenous Affairs Minister Mal Brough quoted in Parliament on Monday to back up public servant Gregory Andrews prescribed Viagra to the alleged paedophile at the centre of the Lateline Mutitjulu broadcast. Brough referred to Lateline in Question Time and congratulated senior public servant Gregory Andrews, who appeared anonymously on […]
