Aboriginal Medical Service
This NAIDOC Week, the theme is 50 Years of Deadly. For me, those words land with particular weight and few examples better capture that theme than the achievements of Aboriginal community-controlled h...
For Aunty Maria, aged care services have not only helped her at home, they have also reconnected her to family and loved ones. Born in Northam, Western Australia, Aunty Maria was only 12 years old whe...
The Northern Territory Government has announced an extension of the total alcohol ban in town camps and Aboriginal communities. The move comes after the Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance Northern T...
The Northern Territory Government must provide certainty about how it will maintain alcohol restrictions when Interim Alcohol Protected Areas (IAPAs) expire next year.
A serious outbreak of a disease most developed countries have relegated to the "dustbin of history" occurred despite high children vaccination rates, the government says.
The Commonwealth government's funding package in response to the country's largest diphtheria outbreak on record has been welcomed by Indigenous health bodies, who have encouraged everyone to make sur...
A new national Indigenous vocational education body aimed at improving training and employment outcomes for First Nations people will be established under the Federal Government.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised the following article contains the name of an Indigenous person who has died. Dr Naomi Mayers is being remembered as a trailblazer and visiona...
NOTE: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised the following article contains the name of an Indigenous person who has died. Photos have been supplied and approved for use by family.
Warning: The following article contains references to suicide, which may distress some readers. Suicide rates in Western Australia's Kimberley region remain among the highest in the world, with Aborig...
A fast-tracked ear surgery model being trialled in Western Australia's East Pilbara is showing how culturally safe logistics, local health partnerships and targeted corporate backing can remove one of...
Health leaders in Western Australia's Kimberley have acknowledged the retirement of long-serving National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (NACCHO) chief executive Pat Turner.
One of the Territory's most experienced Aboriginal health leaders is set to lead the Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance Northern Territory (AMSANT), with Donna Ah Chee beginning her role as the body...