Category Archives: Indigenous education

Pat Anderson delivers damning indictment of NT Intervention

May 5, 2011 – 12:32 pm

Ms Pat Anderson, chairperson of the Lowitja Institute and co-author of the Little Children are Sacred inquiry’s report, has delivered a damning indictment of the NT intervention in a keynote address to an Aboriginal health research conference in Sydney this morning. I recommend reading her speech in full (PDF available here, titled “Research for a [...]

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The PM’s report on Closing the Gap report has plenty of holes

February 21, 2011 – 6:44 pm

As previously reported, the Prime Minister recently released a report investigating what progress has been made in achieving targets for reducing the gap in Indigenous disadvantage around: • life expectancy • mortality rates for Indigenous children under five • access to early childhood education for all Indigenous four year olds in remote communities • reading, [...]

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A dirty great wrap of recent public health news from Twitter

November 15, 2010 – 4:47 pm

This post is for those who haven’t yet realised that Twitter is a fantastic source of public health news. And it’s also for those who might have realised this, but don’t have time for Twitter-trawling. Below are links to recent news and reports found via Twitter about: food tobacco control public health health policy the [...]

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What do Aboriginal men want for their health?

July 9, 2009 – 9:45 pm

About 100 Aboriginal men recently attended a three-day male health summit hosted by the Sunrise Health Service at the Banatjarl camp south of Katherine. At the close of the summit last Thursday (July 2), they issued 22 recommendations. These include calls for: The Federal Government to immediately reinstate the Racial Discrimination Act with full integrity [...]

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Some critical issues in Aboriginal health and education

March 23, 2009 – 11:03 am

John Greatorex, a Darwin-based academic who has previously worked as a teacher in north-east Arnhem Land for 30 years, has written the following detailed response to the Inside Story article on media reporting of Aboriginal health: “I remember when the NT Intervention was announced, many families rang asking why the government was sending the army [...]

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Kerin O’Dea: some more stories you should know about

March 6, 2009 – 4:14 pm

Following on from previous posts, Professor Kerin O’Dea, director of the Sansom Institute at the University of SA, has some more story tips: • We need much more sophisticated analysis of the state of Aboriginal health. At present it’s often reported as if the issues are the same for all Indigenous Australians. But some Aboriginal [...]

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