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After Australia cut drug copays for indigenous people, hospital use declined

After Australia cut drug copays for indigenous people, hospital use declined - A new study finds that in regions where indigenous Australians most readily accepted a government incentive ...

When Psychiatric Medications Cause Psychiatric Symptoms

When Psychiatric Medications Cause Psychiatric Symptoms - Youth suicide , she reports, began to rise in the 1980s in Australia as stimulant medication began to be prescribed, and this trend continued as ...

Unlike most Australians, I'm finding it hard to care about the US election

Unlike most Australians , I'm finding it hard to care about the US election - Yet similar battles have been raging in Australia on Aboriginal lands for a long time now and it barely generates a whisper. How many people, for ...

Indigenous-led technology hub to open in regional Australia

Indigenous -led technology hub to open in regional Australia - Because the majority of Australia's population clings to its coastal cities, people in regional areas are often left out when it comes to the so-called ...

Who'd believe Australian towns and communities at 600 times the national suicide rate?

Who'd believe Australian towns and communities at 600 times the national suicide rate? - The Inuit peoples of Greenland, the Guarani peoples of South America and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders peoples of the Australian  ...

Indigenous kids in care to triple in 20 years

Indigenous kids in care to triple in 20 years - Victoria's Aboriginal children guardian Muriel Bamblett said many Aboriginal and ... Western Australia has the highest rates of over-representation of ...

Indigenous Australians demand return of shield taken by Captain Cook

Indigenous Australians demand return of shield taken by Captain Cook - The descendant of an Indigenous Australian warrior who was the first to confront Captain Cook as he landed on the shores of Australia in 1770 has ...

Analysis Of Ancient Aboriginal Skeleton Indicates Boomerangs Were Once Used As Lethal Weapons

Analysis Of Ancient Aboriginal Skeleton Indicates Boomerangs Were Once Used As Lethal Weapons - Researchers had long known that Aboriginal Australians once used boomerangs for hunting and digging. Now a new study suggests that the natives ...