Urban Aboriginal people face unique challenges in the fight against coronavirus

Authors

Fiona Stanley
Daniel McAullay, Edith Cowan UniversityFollow
Sandra Eades

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The Conversation

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The Conversation Media Group Ltd

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Kurongkurl Katitjin

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Stanley, F., McAullay, D., & Eades, S. (2020). Urban Aboriginal people face unique challenges in the fight against coronavirus. The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/urban-aboriginal-people-face-unique-challenges-in-the-fight-against-coronavirus-136050

Abstract

There seems to be a myth in Australia that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people mostly live in remote communities. But the vast majority (79%) live in urban areas.

The federal government has rightly decided the best policy to protect Indigenous people from COVID-19 is to socially isolate remote communities.

Now the government needs to turn its attention to the risks Indigenous people face in urban and rural areas.

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