Vaccination
With the onset of flu season, the Institute for Urban Indigenous Health is calling on all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to get vaccinated as soon as possible.
Health experts are concerned about declining vaccination rates among children and are calling for a targeted campaign to lift uptake. Childhood vaccination rates have dropped for a second year, prompt...
As an eighth wave of COVID-19 sweeps across Australia there has been a sharp rise in the number of people contracting the virus in the Northern Territory.
There's a plea for Australia to roll out vaccine 'surges' as the take up rate for jabs against serious diseases is lagging among high-risk groups.
A study aimed at curbing risks associated with feared trailing vaccination rates among First Nations expectant mothers and babies will work with Aboriginal medical services around Western Australia fo...
The Western Australian government is being asked to clarify whether Traditional Owners carrying out work on mine sites are required to be vaccinated against COVID-19 as part of its mandate for mine si...
The rapid spread of a COVID-19 Omicron cluster in Western Australia's Pilbara region comes as no surprise, according to the chief executive of a local health service.
The Kimberley Land Council (KLC) is calling for the WA Government to enforce its COVID-19 vaccine mandate for the resources industry on all Traditional Owners going onto mine sites to carry out herita...
The Commonwealth and Northern Territory governments have established a series of biosecurity zones in a bid to protect remote NT communities from COVID-19.
A second worker has tested positive to COVID in the Pilbara, sparking fears for the region which has relatively low vaccination rates. More than 70 workers at the Yandi iron ore mine site, north-east...
Concerns have been raised about low vaccination levels in the Pilbara as Western Australia approaches the scheduled date for reopening the state's border, with around 40% of Pilbara residents still co...
Following the McGowan Government's announcement of the February 5 plan to open Western Australia to the rest of the country, and the world, the race now appears to be on to get areas with low vaccinat...
South Australian authorities have imposed restrictions on residents in the Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands in the state's north after COVID-19 was detected in wastewater at Ind...