Tag: Aboriginal cultures
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White Australia: How white healthcare has affected Indigenous Australians
Brittany SuannWestern Australia Australian healthcare is among the best, and Australia boasts the eighth lowest mortality rates in the world.1 For Indigenous Australians, however, health outcomes are 2.3 times worse than for non-Indigenous Australians.1 This gap is stark and is evident in mortality rates, the life expectancy at birth being 69.7 years for Indigenous women…
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The truth of the imagination
John Graham-PoleAntigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada “All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances.” Life as performance art The bard got it right: we are all actors, whether stars or bit players. Our metaphors bespeak it: we make our entry onto life’s stage;…