• 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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Tagged as: aboriginal, ABS, AHA, alcohol, Area Health Corp, Arnhem, asbestos, CAAC, Congress, diabetes, Fitzroy Crossing, Indigenous, Kimberley, pregnant, RAHC, scabies, suicide, vet

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