Close the Gap

When we get it right in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health, we get it right for everyone

I often describe myself as an Aboriginal man who loves being a doctor and working one-on one with patients.

Peter O’Mara

Stronger Together – Partnerships in Health the Way Forward

On 12 February 2020, I listened to yet another Prime Minister announce that efforts toward closing the gap on Aboriginal and Torres Strait health were not working. We are still failing. Yet there were glimpses of hope that a ‘circuit breaker’ would bring much needed change.  

Jaki Adams-Barton

Looking Back on Closing the Gap

Aboriginal Australia has a long history. Mind bogglingly long.

Tom Widdup

Institutional racism in healthcare directly linked to poor health outcomes

The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW), the national agency for statistics and information about health and welfare in Australia, recently stated that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have to wait much longer than non-Indigenous people for elective surgery [1]. 

Dr Chris Bourke

A Question of Time

I’ve been thinking about ‘time’ recently. As a person that has grown up immersed in the Western precepts of time as a commodity to be measured, quantified and sold, it can be difficult to think outside of the concept of time that I have been taught from the beginning.

Paul Wright