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In 2010–2011, health expenditure for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people was estimated at A$4.6 billion, or 3.7% of Australia's total recurrent health expenditure. [28] The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population comprised 2.5% of the Australian population at this time. [28]
Taken as a whole, Aboriginal Australians, along with Torres Strait Islander people, have a number of health and economic deprivations in comparison with the wider Australian community. [75] [76] Due to the aforementioned disadvantage, Aboriginal Australian communities experience a higher rate of suicide, as compared to non-indigenous communities.
The HealthInfoNet was established in September 1997 as the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Clearinghouse. [1] It developed into a more comprehensive web-based resource for knowledge about Indigenous health and was renamed the Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet in 2000 to reflect this broader purpose” [2] Dr Wooldridge, the then Federal Health Minister, said at the ...
[37] [38] [39] The integration of human genomic evidence from various parts of the world also supports a date of about 50,000 years ago for the arrival of Aboriginal people in the continent. [40] [41] The oldest human remains found are at Lake Mungo in New South Wales, which have been dated to around 41,000 years ago. The site suggests one of ...
After the 1940s, health facilities and health care workers became more prevalent. Some schools had a nurse on staff and an infirmary, with doctors who paid visits. Testimony before the TRC reveals that a great many children were subjected to sexual and physical abuse while attending a residential school.
The history of Aboriginal Australians is said to have spanned some 60,000 years prior to colonization, [7] yet they were first cited by Europeans in 1606. [8] Further investigations of the land over the years leading to James Cook's arrival in 1769-70, suggested that the Aboriginal people were hunter-gatherers, who were described as "beasts who roamed the land". [8]
The Aboriginal Healing Foundation was established in 1998 as an Indigenous managed, non-profit corporation dedicated to responding to the legacy of residential schools in Canada and the associated community health impacts. Funding for the Aboriginal Healing Foundation ceased in 2014.
In being responsible for Country, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people's traditional custodians typically serve as custodians of accompanying systems of traditional knowledge; they bear a "cultural imperative for protecting, maintaining and creating knowledge". [60]