Rolling lockdowns and travel restrictions are causing health worker shortages in many remote Indigenous communities,where locals face worse health outcomes.
To fix the front-line hospital scandals in regional and country NSW,start with their opaque administration.
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.
A parliamentary inquiry instigated after reports of $55 jars of coffee selling in remote Indigenous communities did not find evidence of systemic price-gouging.
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.
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.
From the coalface of climate change comes Small Island Big Song,a musical plea for empathy and action.
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.
The town struggles to tackle underlying social issues,and its properties have become crime hotspots,further stigmatising the suburb of East Newman.
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.
Remote areas of Australia covered by tax breaks have remained largely unchanged since the scheme was introduced at the end of World War II.