Birthing On Country
Expectant mums in Queensland's far north have been forced to travel more than 800km to the nearest birthing suite for more than two decades. For 25 years, women in Queensland's Cape York Peninsula hav...
Too many First Nations mothers and babies are being traumatised and dying during childbirth, according to Indigenous health professor Yvette Roe.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women have been safely giving birth on country for more than 60,000 years. And there's a growing body of evidence that when cultural safety is embedded into care...
Since missionaries handed services to the government in the 1980's, the women of Galiwinku on east Arnhem Land's Elcho Island have been forced to travel away from community for birth, leading to a los...
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