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Connected Care rollout expands specialist maternity services across the Kimberley
Women with high-risk pregnancies in the Kimberley are set to benefit from improv...
Phoebe Solon 20 Oct 2026
Pormpuraaw welcomes new $35 million health centre
Pormpuraaw's new $35. 4 million Primary Health Care Centre has welcomed its firs...
Joseph Guenzler 20 Oct 2026
First Nations knowledge must help shape the doctors who serve our communities
First Nations knowledge and leadership must help shape how future doctors are tr...
Nicole Brown 19 Oct 2026
$2.2m funding boost for First Nations iron testing project
A new quantum sensing technology designed to improve the diagnosis of iron disor...
Jackson Clark 5 Oct 2026
Djangadi nursing student named Tropical North Vocational Student of the Year
Djangadi woman Bianca Rickert has been named Vocational Student of the Year at t...
Joseph Guenzler 17 Sep 2026
Young Indigenous woman repeatedly asked for medications before her death in custody, inquest told

This report contains the first name of an Indigenous person who has died. A First Nations woman reported suicidal thoughts and complained multiple times that she was not receiving her usual mental hea...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Sep 7, 2026
Central Australian health hub sets NT sustainability benchmark with 6-Star rating

A recently opened health hub in Central Australia has become the highest-rated Green Star building in the Northern Territory after receiving a 6-Star Green Star Design and As Built certification.

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Aug 31, 2026
High hopes for $13 million health hub in Goldfields

One of Western Australia's biggest regional health centres has been transformed to meet modern needs of the rural communities it serves across the state's biggest region.

David Prestipino David Prestipino Aug 12, 2026
Cost and access barriers stopping Aboriginal men getting prostate cancer surgery

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men diagnosed with prostate cancer are less likely to receive surgery than other Australian men and more likely to face financial barriers to treatment, according...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Aug 4, 2026
Cherokee Nation opens new 127-bed hospital in Oklahoma

The Cherokee Nation has completed a US$470 million (AUD 671 million) replacement hospital in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, expanding the tribe's health care capacity with a six-story, 400,000-square-foot facil...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Jul 21, 2026
Canberra optometrist wins Indigenous eye health leadership award

Canberra-based Wiradjuri and Ngemba optometrist Harrison Pike has received the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Eye Health Conference26 emerging leadership award.

Joseph Guenzler Joseph Guenzler Jun 29, 2026
'I feel a cultural responsibility to leave places better than when we found them': Indigenous STEM students supported on their journey to make a difference

These First Nations women in STEM want to make a difference for their community, for their Country, and leave a mark on where they work. Mia Stevens, pursuing a career in software engineering, and Zoe...

Jarred Cross Jarred Cross May 22, 2026
Fiji breaks ground on $10 million rehabilitation centre in Tamavua

Fiji has broken ground on a new National Rehabilitation Centre in Tamavua as the country moves to expand care for people recovering from stroke, amputation, injury and other disabling conditions.

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Rebekah Rasmussen Apr 21, 2026
Deaths spark call for reforms in WA prison system

The second death of an Aboriginal woman in WA's Bandyup prison in under five weeks has sparked further calls for urgent reform. On Saturday morning a 40-year-old woman was found unresponsive in her be...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Apr 20, 2026
Aboriginal nurse training program aims to strengthen local healthcare delivery

Aboriginal school leavers in the Northern Territory will be offered supported career pathways into nursing and midwifery under a new government program.

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Apr 13, 2026
Program breaking down cultural barriers in NSW pharmacies set to expand

Seeing a trusted familiar face who can offer advice makes a difference for community members accessing healthcare, Aboriginal health worker Vicki Gardner says.

Jarred Cross Jarred Cross Apr 2, 2026
Midland clinic expansion boosts Aboriginal health care access in Boorloo

A new $7.9 million clinic in the Perth suburb of Midland has opened, expanding culturally safe health care for Aboriginal people as demand grows in Boorloo's east.

Joseph Guenzler Joseph Guenzler Mar 18, 2026
University of Oklahoma’s Native Nations research centre releases key report on cancer care access

The University of Oklahoma's Native Nations Center for Tribal Policy Research has released a new Sovereign Report - Purchased/Referred Care and Cancer: Overview and Options for Tribal Consideration.

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Mar 6, 2026
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