Oh dear, I have it good authority that Centrelink/Abstudy have given the Centre for Aboriginal Studies at Curtin Uni such a hard time that only half of their enroled students will arrive on monday. This is for the Bachelor of Applied Science (Indigenous Comunity Health) degree. Obstructionism, bureaucratisation, downsizing of staff, minimisation of the issue? Whatever, the bloody results the same - Indigenous Australia fails to get qualified people. When will the apart-hate end? ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- From: "Trudy Bray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "news-clip" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date sent: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 11:02:35 +1000 Subject: ABC Newslink - Workers for Aboriginal health services sought Send reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Priority: normal Workers for Aboriginal health services sought Tuesday 9 February, 1999 (7:11am AEDT) An information kit aimed at attracting practitioners to Aboriginal health services is being launched in Canberra today. Chair of the National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health organisation Pug Hunter says health services operate in communities throughout Australia, often in challenging conditions. However Mr Hunter says a shortage of qualified health workers and medical resourcing is contributing to the continuing high rates of disease and early mortalities amongst Aboriginal people. "The sad part about Aboriginal health is that it's bad in all areas," he said. "You pick up any report an we're always reporting on the negatives because it's very hard to find some sort of positive outcome at a national level. "Now there's been some small gains here and there but on the whole it just needs a lot of resources to actually address some of these things." ************************************************************************* This posting is provided to the individual members of this group without permission from the copyright owner for purposes of criticism, comment, scholarship and research under the "fair use" provisions of the Federal copyright laws and it may not be distributed further without permission of the copyright owner, except for "fair use." |\/\/\/| *Jim Duffield* *[EMAIL PROTECTED]* | o o| C _) If you stick a knife into my back nine inches | ,____| and pull it out three, that is not progress... | / Progress is healing the wound, and Australia | | has not yet begun to pull out the knife. [Reconciliation? with Apologies to Malcolm X] ************ http://www.omen.net.au/~staffy/ **************** * 12 Hurrey Place BEECHBORO WA 6063 AUSTRALIA * * Ph: 61 8 9377-7871 Fax: 61 8 9377-7871 (Pls ring first)* ************************************************************* ------------------------------------------------------- RecOzNet2 has a page @ http://www.green.net.au/recoznet2 To unsubscribe from this list, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED], and in the body of the message, include the words: unsubscribe announce or click here mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20announce This posting is provided to the individual members of this group without permission from the copyright owner for purposes of criticism, comment, scholarship and research under the "fair use" provisions of the Federal copyright laws and it may not be distributed further without permission of the copyright owner, except for "fair use."
