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Posted: April 8, 2003
On the 27 March 2003, Senator Kay Patterson the Federal Minister for Health and Ageing, announced the allocation of major funding for new and improved Indigenous health care facilities in urban, rural, and remote Australia. The funding is part of the Commonwealth funded Office for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Capital Works Program. Funding […]

Posted: April 3, 2003
The 7th National Rural Health Conference was held in Hobart, Tasmania on 1-4 March, and addressed the theme ‘The art of science and community – sharing country know-how’. The National Aboriginal Community Control Health Organisation (NACCHO), the Australian Indigenous Doctor’s Association (AIDA), and the Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nurses (CATSIN) organised the […]

Posted: April 1, 2003
The inaugural National Link-Up Conference was held 18-20 March 2003 in Fremantle, Western Australia. The conference focused on the Link-Up services established or enhanced as part of the implementation of recommendations from the Bringing them home report (view report). The Link-Up network facilitates tracing and reuniting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander family members. The conference […]

Posted: March 17, 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 […]

Posted: March 13, 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 […]

Posted: February 2, 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 […]

Posted: January 30, 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 […]

Posted: January 8, 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 […]

Posted: January 8, 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 […]

Posted: December 10, 2002
The 4th National Indigenous Environmental Health Conference was held in Adelaide on November 6 and 7. The conference program included: a warm welcome from Kaurna Elder, Aunty Josie Agius; plenary presentations from a diverse range of people active in the area of Indigenous environmental health;and concurrent sessions that addressed a range of issues including: housing; […]