Pandemic creates critical health staff shortages in Indigenous communities

Pandemic creates critical health staff shortages in Indigenous communities

Rolling lockdowns and travel restrictions are causing health worker shortages in many remote Indigenous communities,where locals face worse health outcomes.

  • byCameron Gooley

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The labyrinth of bureaucracy behind our country hospitals’ horror stories

The labyrinth of bureaucracy behind our country hospitals’ horror stories

To fix the front-line hospital scandals in regional and country NSW,start with their opaque administration.

  • byDr Aniello Iannuzzi
‘Wrong skin’ tragedy:death,drugs and violence in a divided town

‘Wrong skin’ tragedy:death,drugs and violence in a divided town

Nyaparu’s life ended shortly after she was dragged to the local hospital in a wheelie bin. Her assailant was her teenage boyfriend,who never learnt to read and suffers from FASD.

  • byMarta Pascual Juanola
Consumer watchdog must monitor Indigenous food and grocery prices:report

Consumer watchdog must monitor Indigenous food and grocery prices:report

A parliamentary inquiry instigated after reports of $55 jars of coffee selling in remote Indigenous communities did not find evidence of systemic price-gouging.

  • byRob Harris
Mental health spotlight after Bran Nue Dae writer's death

Mental health spotlight after Bran Nue Dae writer's death

The death of a celebrated West Australian playwright has prompted a coroner to recommend the government consider creating a long-term supported accommodation facility for mental health patients in the Kimberley region.

  • byAAP
Adam Goodes reveals the moment he decided to end his AFL career

Adam Goodes reveals the moment he decided to end his AFL career

In a rare interview,the AFL great says strangers are hugging him on the street and apologising for his treatment. He is now focused on a positive future.

  • bySamantha Lane
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Four-year project captures islanders'songs of global warning

Four-year project captures islanders'songs of global warning

From the coalface of climate change comes Small Island Big Song,a musical plea for empathy and action.

  • byKathy Evans
The Newman solution:Is the fix for a struggling WA town as simple as this?
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The Newman solution:Is the fix for a struggling WA town as simple as this?

With his first child on the way Devon had two options:he could continue on a path of self-destruction,or he could give up booze and violence and turn his life around.

  • byMarta Pascual Juanola
Broken windows,broken dreams:the WA town left in the boom-time dust
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Broken windows,broken dreams:the WA town left in the boom-time dust

The town struggles to tackle underlying social issues,and its properties have become crime hotspots,further stigmatising the suburb of East Newman.

  • byMarta Pascual Juanola
Welcome to the slums on the very edge of WA's mining epicentre
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Welcome to the slums on the very edge of WA's mining epicentre

There’s a strange feeling in the air,as if Parnpajinya’s remaining residents are unaware the community is on the brink of closing down.

  • byMarta Pascual Juanola
Price of rockmelons highlighted in push for bush tax break boost

Price of rockmelons highlighted in push for bush tax break boost

Remote areas of Australia covered by tax breaks have remained largely unchanged since the scheme was introduced at the end of World War II.

  • byFelicity Caldwell