Part of the Aboriginal health problem, and part of the solution?

04 March 2009Is the media stopping us from seeing the real problems and doing something about them, asks Melissa Sweet

SIMON HOLDING doesn’t look much like a couch potato. He’s tall and has the broad shoulders of someone sporty. But if you met him at a party he’d probably tell you that he watches television for a living. Or, as he sometimes puts it, he’s a “broadcast media observation engineer.” Actually, he spends his days in an office at the University of Sydney, methodically categorising the health-related stories appearing on Sydney’s five free-to-air television stations. He watches the news and current affairs programs, as well as a selection of other shows with a health element, from Biggest Loser to RPA. Since starting the job in May 2005, he’s digitally clipped about 17,000 stories and coded them into twenty-one main categories - such as health services or cancer - and about 250 sub-categories... Read the full article on our partner website, Inside Story >

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The Australian Indigenous HealthBulletin turns 30 on Sunday, 1 April.

The Australian Indigenous Health Bulletin started life in April 1982 as a hard-copy publication. It is now a peer-reviewed electronic journal published by the Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet.

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