Tag: Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander

For the fifth year running, the NRL is dedicating a round of matches to Close the Gap – Australia’s largest campaign to improve Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health. The round (3-6 August) will raise awareness of Indigenous health inequalities, but also encourage further cooperation to Close the Gap between our leaders and communities! Remind […] Read more »

For the fourth year running the NRL is again dedicating an entire round of their premiership to the Close the Gap Issue, the largest Australian campaign to improve indigenous health. The NRL’s Close the Gap round last year reached over three million people with the message of health equality. This year the Close the Gap […] Read more »

by Oxfam intern Jarrod Strauch On 27 January 1972, at just shy of one in the morning, four young Aboriginal men planted a beach umbrella on the lawn in front of Parliament House. They were there in response to Prime Minister William McMahon’s newly-announced policy on Aboriginal land rights – a policy which announced that while […] Read more »

The Australian Government’s announcement that it will work in partnership with the new National Health Leadership Forum (NHLF) to achieve health equality for Indigenous peoples within a generation heralds the start of a new era in Indigenous health. Read more »

By turns an advocate between doctor and patient, a crusader against diabetes, and a contact point for the Indigenous community, Aboriginal health worker Clem Jetta tells us how he’s trying to Close the Gap. Read more »

Meet Hayley, the third Aboriginal health worker in our SWAMS interview series. Here, she describes how she puts clients at ease and talks about some of the health issues she encounters in her work. Read more »

In our latest Aboriginal health worker interview, Steven tells us how SWAMS is making a positive difference to the health of Aboriginal people in WA’s southwest. Read more »

Katherine is an Aboriginal health worker with SWAMS (South West Aboriginal Medical Service), based in Bunbury, Western Australia. In the first interview of a four-part series about SWAMS’ clinical team, she talks about the rewards and challenges of her job. Read more »

When Jamie Soward became the first player to pass 200 points in last year’s NRL Premiership, he signalled a reminder of just how prominent Aboriginal players are in rugby league. Three of the top five point scorers in last year’s premiership are Aboriginal – Soward, Johnathan Thurston and Scott Prince. Although Aboriginal and Torres Strait […] Read more »

Our intern Georgina Askham reports on the recent Close the Gap NRL round between the Brisbane Broncos and the New Zealand Warriors. Read more »