Responding to our 'spectacular failure'

Authors

Neil Thomson, Edith Cowan University

Document Type

Book Chapter

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Faculty

Faculty of Computing, Health and Science

School

School of Nursing and Public Health

RAS ID

1539

Comments

Thomson, N. J. (2003). Responding to our 'spectacular failure'. In Thomson, Neil (Eds.). The health of indigenous Australians (pp. 488-505). Location: Oxford University Press. Available here.

Abstract

Dr. Michael Wooldridge, as Commonwealth Minister for Health, concluded in 2000 that 'our single most spectacular failure as a nation has been in the area of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health'.