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• 2003 Public Health Association Conference: a special interest group and community award for Indigenous Australians
  January 5, 2004 Posted in: Current topics | Vol 4 No 1 January 2004 - March 2004 |

  Indigenous special interest group The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Special Interest Group of the Public Health Association (PHA) held a workshop recently at the PHA Annual Conference. This was held in Brisbane from 28 September – 1 October 2003. The traditional ‘welcome to country’ by Flo Watson was very moving and significant and […]

• Healthway appoints first Indigenous board member
  February 3, 2004 Posted in: Current topics | Vol 4 No 1 January 2004 - March 2004 |

  Healthway (the Western Australian Health Promotion Foundation) provides grants to health and research organisations as well as sponsorships to sport, arts, racing and community groups which encourage healthy lifestyles and advance health promotion programs. Ms Carol Innes is the first Indigenous person to hold a Healthway Board position. She previously served on Healthway’s Arts Advisory […]

• Healing Hands: Indigenous Health Rights Campaign 2004
  March 4, 2004 Posted in: Current topics | Vol 4 No 1 January 2004 - March 2004 |

  A campaign for Indigenous health rights, by Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation (ANTaR), was launched in Sydney on February 19, 2004. The Healing Hands initiative is led by a group of eminent Indigenous Australians advising ANTaR, including Patrick Dodson, Prof. Lowitja O’Donohue and Dr. Bill Jonas. The campaign seeks to raise awareness of Indigenous […]