Tag: Australian Aboriginal women
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White Australia: How white healthcare has affected Indigenous Australians
Brittany Suann Western Australia Rural Australia. Photo by author. 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…
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Bush medicine leaves
Rose Tasker Adelaide, Australia Leaves Gloria Petyarre (1945 -) The leaves of the Kurrajong, or Kurrawong tree (Brachychiton1) have been captured in several paintings by Australian Aboriginal women artists. These stylistic and iconic paintings first gained international attention in 1999, when one work by Gloria Petyarre (1945 – ) won the Australian “Wynne Prize”…