The Council of Australian Governments (COAG) announced a commitment of $4.6 billion for Indigenous issues at its meeting in Canberra on 29 November 2008.
Champion S, Franks C, Taylor J (2008) Increasing community participation in an Aboriginal health service. Australian Journal of Rural Health;16(5):297-301
Aithal S, Yonovitz A, Aithal V (2008) Perceptual consequences of conductive hearing loss: speech perception in Indigenous students learning English as a ‘school’ language. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Audiology;30(1):1-18
Strange A, Johnson A, Ryan B-J, Yonovitz A (2008) The stigma of wearing hearing aids in an adolescent Aboriginal population. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Audiology;30(1):19-37
Campbell D, Smith MS, Daview J, Kuipers P, Wakerman J, et al. (2008) Responding to health impacts of climate change in the Australian desert. Rural and Remote Health;8(Online):Article 1008.
Brimblecombe J (2008) Keeping track of healthy food: monitoring and planning for improvements in the national quality of the store food supply in remote communities. Darwin: Menzies School of Health Research
On 24 June 2008, the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare organised the Australia’s health 2008 conference. This conference aimed to bring together health professionals, researchers, policy makers, practitioners and academics working across all industry and government fields in health. Presentations related to Indigenous health included: Al-Yaman F, Wilkes T. The health of Indigenous Australians: [...]
Humphreys JS, Wakerman J, Wells R, Kuipers P, Jones JA, et al. (2008) “Beyond workforce”: a systemic solution for health service provision in small rural and remote communities. Medical Journal of Australia;188(8):S77-S80
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2008) The effectiveness of the Illicit Drug Diversion Initiative in rural and remote Australia. (AIHW Catalogue no. PHE 96) Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Wakerman J (2008) Rural and remote public health in Australia: building on our strengths [guest editorial]. Australian Journal of Rural Health;16(2):52-55
