Report
Improving the identification of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in mainstream general practice
This report provides recommendations on how GPs can help Close the Gap. Better identification of Indigenous patients in general practices would improve their access to Medicare benefits such as health checks that could help ‘Close the Gap’, yet many GPs don’t consider ethnicity to be relevant to quality of care, according to a study from...
Article
Driven into action
In Inside Story, Ian Anderson reviews Peter Sutton’s unsettling account of Indigenous policy, The Politics of Suffering AN INTERVIEW with Peter Sutton published in the Age in July began with the tag line, “Driven into action by loss, the linguist and anthropologist wants to shake the very foundations of Indigenous policy,” and concluded:
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Unexplained differences
Ian Anderson compares the federal government's response to the Little Children Are Sacred report with the authors' recommendations.