Australia needs to do much more to recognise and respect this country’s first peoples, according to Professor Lesley Barclay, Director of the University Centre for Rural Health (University of Sydney), based in Lismore. Our failure to do so is harmful for Indigenous Australians, as well as being a source of shame for non-Indigenous Australians, she [...]
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Tackling racism in health care: it requires some self-reflection
Thanks to Twitter, I recently came across this fascinating presentation giving medical students some insights into the historical forces that shape contemporary Indigenous health and wellbeing. In the presentation, Dr Geoff Spurling, a lecturer at the University of Queensland and a GP at the Inala Indigenous Health Service, encourages medical students (and it’s useful advice [...]
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Some thoughts on how the public health sector can learn from @IndigenousX and its pitch to the #ShortyAwards
The IndigenousX Twitter account, as profiled at Croakey last year, has a different Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person tweeting each week. The number of people following @IndigenousX has been increasing quickly (almost 10,000 at present), thanks to the efforts of the account’s indefatigable founder, Luke Pearson (in his other life an education consultant with [...]
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Profiling online opportunities for Indigenous health discussions, the @IndigenousX Twitter account and more…
Health services and organisations interested in using social media to connect with Aboriginal people and communities have much to learn from Luke Pearson, an Aboriginal education consultant and social media activist. Luke established the popular @IndigenousX Twitter account, and is preparing to soon launch a weekly twitter forum #iXchat – initiatives which offer great opportunities for [...]
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GP conference to tackle the issue of racism in health services
Experiences of racism in health services are a significant barrier to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people receiving appropriate healthcare. The health system needs to be more proactive in addressing racism, according to a submission made by the RACGP National Faculty of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health to the Australian Human Rights Commission National [...]
READ MOREA mega-wrap of public health and policy reading from Croakey contributors
Croakey readers are welcome to sign up for (rather irregular) summaries of posts. If you’d like to join the mailing list, please send your email or leave it below. Here is the latest compilation, covering articles posted between 11 April and 3 September. As always, thanks are due to the many contributors who generously volunteer [...]
READ MOREShame on Facebook, but let’s not forget that racism is a wider public health problem
As of this moment, more than 10,000 people have signed this petition calling on Facebook to take down the racist attack on Indigenous Australians that is in the news. And more than 16,000 people have signed this one. I wonder how many people from the health sector signed the petitions? In the article below, Dr Tim [...]
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