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• Recommendations from the Inquiry into the Response by Government Agencies to Complaints of Family Violence and Child Abuse in Aboriginal Communities
  January 8, 2003 Posted in: Current topics | Vol 3 No 1 January 2003 - March 2003 |

  Background In 2001 the Premier of Western Australia the Honourable Dr Geoff Gallop announced plans for the Inquiry into the Response by Government Agencies to Complaints of Family Violence and Child Abuse in Aboriginal Communities. With a background of previous reports of abuse within Aboriginal communities, the Inquiry was prompted by the findings of the […]

• The Western Australian State Government action plan following the Inquiry into response by government agencies to complaints of family violence and child abuse in Aboriginal communities
  January 8, 2003 Posted in: Current topics | Vol 3 No 1 January 2003 - March 2003 |

  The Western Australian State Government has produced an action plan based on recommendations from the Inquiry into response by government agencies to complaints of family violence and child abuse in Aboriginal communities (view further information). The action plan is documented in the report Putting people first: the Western Australian State Government’s action plan for addressing […]

• Western Australian Parliamentarians visit HealthInfoNet
  January 30, 2003 Posted in: Current topics | Vol 3 No 1 January 2003 - March 2003 |

  Three members of the Western Australian Parliament – Carol Martin, MLA, Member for Kimberley and Chair of the Education and Health Committee, Tony O’Gorman, MLA, Member for Joondalup, and Dianne Guise, MLA, Member for Wanneroo and Deputy Speaker of the Legislative Assembly – visited the Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet on Friday 6 December. This visit was […]

• HealthInfoNet at the 2002 NACCHO conference
  February 2, 2003 Posted in: Current topics | Vol 3 No 1 January 2003 - March 2003 |

  The National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (NACCHO) AGM and conference, held in Adelaide on the 20-21 November, addressed the theme of ‘Looking back – looking forward’. The plenary session chaired by Margaret Colbung on strengthening the capacity of Aboriginal community-controlled primary health care services was of vital interest to all participants. Guest speakers provided […]

• The National Aboriginal Community Control Health Organisation (NACCHO) has a new Chairperson – Henry Councillor
  March 13, 2003 Posted in: Current topics | Vol 3 No 1 January 2003 - March 2003 |

  In March 2003 Mr Henry Councillor became the Chairperson of the National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (NACCHO), the national peak body for more than 120 Indigenous community controlled health services. Mr Councillor, who was Deputy Chair of NACCHO, takes the helm from Ms Pat Anderson Henry Councillor, 41, is a Jaru man whose family […]

• The National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (NACCHO) has a new CEO – Ms Dea Delaney Thiele
  March 17, 2003 Posted in: Current topics | Vol 3 No 1 January 2003 - March 2003 |

  Ms Dea Delaney Thiele has been appointed as NACCHO’s new Chief Executive Officer. She succeeds Mr Craig Ritchie who resigned some months ago. Ms Delaney Thiele, a Dunghutti woman, was born at the Burnt Bridge Mission at Kempsey, NSW. Her family subsequently moved to Redfern in Sydney and then on to Western Sydney where she […]