Health

improving the experience of people with mental illness and their carers beyond the healthcare system, recognising that there are numerous gateways in the community through which people enter the mental health system and a range of services beyond healthcare — in particular, psychosocial services, housing and justice — that are important for an individual’s social and emotional wellbeing and recovery
This report, collated by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, provides contemporary evidence of the ‘gap within the gap’. It shows that Stolen Generations survivors aged 50 and over are more likely to be worse off than other Indigenous Australians of the same age on a range of health and socioeconomic outcomes.

“There can be little doubt COVID-19 has forever changed the public’s conception of government, human rights and what is possible…

It is widely recognised that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have been sustained for millennia by a holistic conception…

COVID-19 began to emerge during late 2019. The first recorded diagnoses in Australia appeared from 22 January 2020 and by 15 March 2020 there were nearly 300 confirmed cases. At this point community services including housing and homelessness services began to accelerate their efforts to adapt policies, procedures and practices to achieve these key objectives: – Continuity of service delivery to vulnerable Queenslanders – The health and safety of tenants and people who are homeless – Workforce health and safety