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Posted: February 12, 2010
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd delivered his second Closing the Gap statement to Parliament on 11 February 2010. He defended the present Government’s record on reducing Indigenous disadvantage.

Posted: February 2, 2010
The formation of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers Association has been formally acknowledged by the Minister for Indigenous Health, Warren Snowden, in Ceduna, South Australia.

Posted: January 25, 2010
The Federal Government has announced that it will spend $2.5 million to help combat rheumatic heart disease (RHD) and acute rheumatic fever (ARF), through the establishment of RHDAustralia, a new centre dedicated to prevention and management of the disease.

Posted: January 13, 2010
The inaugural Ethics Council has been established for the new representative body for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, the National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples.

Posted: January 11, 2010
Nagel T, Thompson C (2009) The central role of Aboriginal families in motivational counselling: family support and family ‘humbug’. Australian Indigenous HealthBulletin 10(1). Retrieved [access date] from http://healthbulletin.org.au/articles/the-central-role-of-aboriginal-families-in-motivational-counselling-family-support-and-family-humbug/

Posted: December 16, 2009
Mr Mick Gooda will be the next Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, replacing Tom Calma who has been in the position since 2004. Mr Gooda’s five-year appointment will begin in February 2010. Attorney General Robert McClelland formally named Mick Gooda as the new commissioner on 16 December 2009. Mr McClelland said “Mr […]

Posted: November 23, 2009
Tom Calma has announced that a new national Indigenous representative body will be called the National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples.

Posted: October 19, 2009
The Deadly Awards have again highlighted the outstanding achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. 

Posted: October 12, 2009
Kowanko I, Stewart T, Power C, Fraser R, Love I, Bromley T (2009) An Aboriginal family and community healing program in metropolitan Adelaide: description and evaluation. Australian Indigenous HealthBulletin 10 (3). Retrieved [access date] from http://healthbulletin.org.au/articles/an-aboriginal-family-and-community-healing-program-in-metropolitan-adelaide-description-and-evaluation/

Posted: October 1, 2009
The Healing Foundation Development Team has released the report Voices from the campfires: Establishing the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Healing Foundation.