Aboriginal Health
The Aboriginal Health Council of South Australia is marking 25 years since it was incorporated as an independent, community-controlled organisation.
Mobile specialist healthcare provider, Heart of Australia, has expanded their operations to the Northern Territory to deliver access to the National Lung Cancer Screening Program (NLCSP) with the laun...
For many Aboriginal people, a visit to the doctor is never just about the appointment. It can be the difference between feeling understood or feeling invisible.
A new documentary shares the journey of Yolŋu mothers, grandmothers, leaders and health workers to bring birthing back on Country, shining a bright, powerful light on First Nations maternity care...
A state-based, Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation-led anti-vaping campaign has expanded nationally, encouraging community "warriors and the dreamers", its young people, to quit with t...
A new cancer care nursing position has been established in far western NSW to provide additional support to First Nations patients and their families.
The peak body for Indigenous-led health organisations in Victoria has called for practical, community-led investments to improve Aboriginal health and wellbeing while reducing long-term pressure on th...
Ten Aboriginal healthcare students in Tasmania have each been awarded awarded Ida West Aboriginal Health Scholarships in support of their tertiary studies.
In Port Hedland, access to healthcare has never been straightforward. Distances are vast, services are stretched, and for many Aboriginal families, the health system itself can feel unfamiliar and dif...
Almost $900,000 in funding from the Indigenous Land and Sea Corporation will soon see a centralised local community health hub operate on the New South Wales central coast.
Australia has eliminated trachoma as a public health problem, the World Health Organisation says, in a landmark achievement. The world's leading infectious cause of preventable blindness, trachoma is...
New data shows that in 2024-25, the ACT Government spent an estimated $36.2 million on detaining Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the Alexander Maconochie Centre and the Bimberi Youth J...
Yarrabah's new $2.3 million cancer care program is set to provide culturally safe support for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients and families, with the community-controlled initiative aimi...
