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...

Geoscience Australia and NATSEM have recently collaborated to produce experimental estimates of the geographic distribution of vulnerability to a natural hazard. This paper describes the method used in applying synthetic estimation to quantifying vulnerability and reports on the results of the application.