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  • Australian Hotels Association to work with Kimberley Community for voluntary alcohol ban amongst pregnant women http://bit.ly/crS0x
  • Alcohol ban in Fitzroy Crossing showing benefits but bans may be needed for next 20 years http://bit.ly/45QM0J
  • Central Australian Aboriginal Congress advocates grog minimum price benchmark to reduce consumption http://bit.ly/2BhB3T
  • 133,700 litres of full strength beer sold in 3 months before alcohol restrictions came into force. at Fitzroy Crossing http://bit.ly/1Zfip
  • Primary healthcare in the East Arnhem region will come under single regional health board to improve indigenous health http://bit.ly/h1CPA
  • Indigenous kids used asbestos as chalk as dangerous waste not cleared up properly out bush . http://bit.ly/DjOAs would that occur in a city
  • celebrity vet and his unsung work in indigenous communities. http://bit.ly/2dwVfa One point to clarify. scabies mite on dog is dift to human
  • Feelgood piece about the remote Area health Corp. http://bit.ly/zwKXv If remote health funded properly perhaps long term staff easy to find
  • Bureau of Statistics: Remote indigenous 8 times more likely to have diabetes than other remote Australians. http://bit.ly/weaNC
  • Eight indigenous Australians suicided in the Kimberley region in a 2 month period late last year http://bit.ly/2ZlRE

The Indigenous News Updates are sourced from news and other articles from around the country that I have posted on Twitter.

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Indigenous News Update

by Robbo on March 29, 2009

in Indigenous News

  • Communicable Disease rates of indigenous and non-indigenous in Australia compared http://bit.ly/3MYopF
  • FORTESCUE Metals chief has slammed the Australian Hotel Association for its attitude towards alcohol at Halls Creek. http://bit.ly/H2Yv2
  • twice as many Aboriginal people as non-Aboriginal people renting with 62% of indigenous people renting http://bit.ly/XpWj0
  • Digital Conversion of TV : troubling times for remote communities when changeover occurs in 2013 http://bit.ly/48FjeE
  • Aboriginal Death in custody: grandmother calls for better police training http://bit.ly/awO6
  • Good citizen’ would restore Racial Discrimination Act http://bit.ly/ST6GR
  • NT Aboriginal Leaders call on Australian Govt to stop ‘bribing’ communities http://bit.ly/eVvW
  • public service changes will not affect Indigenous Affairs and the Cape York welfare reform trials. http://bit.ly/XVetg

I read a large amount of information each week on indigenous health and affairs. There is no way I can blog about it all. Many of the links I place on Twitter where I can be found as @BiteTheDust.

I will regularly compile these links and place on the blog under the category of Indigenous News Update.

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