The Blackfulla Test: 11 reasons that Indigenous health research grant/publication should be rejected
You may have heard of the Bechdel test, which is a measure of the active representation of women in fiction and film. Well just in time for the Lowijta International Indigenous Health and Wellbeing Conference we bring you “The Blackfulla test”; a test that measures the active representation of Blackfullas in Indigenous health research.
Closing the Gap Refresh
It is very disappointing, although not unexpected that the National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (NACCHO) and other Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peak bodies have had to write for a second time to the Prime Minister, State Premiers and Territory Chief Ministers seeking a full partnership approach to the next phase of Closing the Gap.
Moving Beyond the Frontline: The power and promise of an Indigenous Health Workforce
If you have worked in Indigenous health you would be all too familiar with the discourses of ‘Closing the Gap’ and ‘compliance’ which remind us that the Black body is to be regulated and remedied by the health system.
Just my story – part two
Because I was so young when I had my stroke, our health system ‘failed me’. They couldn’t help provide Len with some nursing support in our home because all that was available was the Aged Care Assessment Team (ACAT) and that only applied to aged or people in hospital who needed 24hr care and there was no other option other than what our doctor said, to take me back to the hospital, because someone had to be there to raise our daughter.