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Indigenous News Update – Health

by Robbo on 24/11/2009

News

  • Bidyadanga has lost 3 nurses in 6 months. Only 2 remain in WA’s largest indigenous community http://bit.ly/1H2Hha

  • Tom Calma – ‘Indigenous health is a matter of human rights’ http://bit.ly/462uFh

  • Deaths from meningococcal disease reduced to 1/4 of the level before vaccine introduced http://bit.ly/2Enrhc

  • indigenous women are significantly less likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer, but less likely to survive http://bit.ly/ObKgH

  • The Health of Indigenous Males: Building Capacity, Securing the Future report released. http://bit.ly/3Wqzhy

  • ‘The Tyranny of Distance? Caring in regional and remote areas of Australia’ report released http://bit.ly/syLMl

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, carers, health, human rights, Indigenous, meningococcal, news

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Indigenous News Update – Politics

by Robbo on 26/03/2009

  • Senate Report: Grasping the opportunity of Opal: Assessing the impact of the Petrol Sniffing Strategy http://bit.ly/efJFz

  • Is a treaty essential to improving the lives of indigenous Australians? http://bit.ly/1U5Och

  • Can indigenous policy accommodate and value diversity and difference rather than just statistical equality http://bit.ly/vrXTJ

  • Amnesty presents UN with details of Australia not complying with Covenant on Civil & Political rights http://bit.ly/LrJfA

  • Restore Racial Discrimination Act former NT chief minister says Indigenous Australians are the victims of discrimination http://bit.ly/dIgLb

  • Kevin Rudd’s dream of winning Security Council dashed by international concerns about Australia’s record human rights. http://bit.ly/CMZkb

  • Aust will officially back the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples reversing previous govt http://bit.ly/rhU9O

  • A UN declaration of rights will not help indigenous children http://bit.ly/WgtNr

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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Tagged as: aboriginal, Amnesty, Australian, discrimination, human rights, indigenous treaty, Intervention, Opal fuel, Rudd, senate, United Nations

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