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The figure highlights Australia s problem of an extremely high suicide rate among the indigenous populace, with up to 10 per cent of all indigenous deaths caused by people taking their own lives. Among the positive trends noted in the report was an improvement in mortality rates and an increase in the number of children finishing school. But family and community violence rates had stagnated between 2002 and 2014-2015, according to the report, affecting around one in five of the adult indigenous population. Shocking and shameful The findings contained in the report caused politicians and activists to voice deep concern. An indigenous leader from Western Australia, Senator Patrick Dodson, called the high rates of suicide shocking and shameful. ....
Print text only Cancel Mililma May was not even born when a royal commission was investigating high Aboriginal incarceration rates and deaths in custody. But she does recall being five years old and ducking down in her family s car with her cousins when they passed a police station. Because we were scared of the police, Ms May said. My cousins and I, in that moment we had no reason to be scared that we d done anything wrong and yet we still ducked and hid. Ms May, a Larrakia Tiwi woman, said that feeling of smallness was common for Aboriginal people when interacting with police. ....
Background: Data quality is fundamental to the integrity of quantitative research. The role of external researchers in data quality assessment (DQA) remains ill-defined in the context of secondary use for research of large, centrally curated health datasets. In order to investigate equity of palliative care provided to Indigenous Australian patients, researchers accessed a now-historical version of a national palliative care dataset developed primarily for the purpose of continuous quality improvement. Objectives: (i) To apply a generic DQA framework to the dataset and (ii) to report the process and results of this assessment and examine the consequences for conducting the research. Method: The data were systematically examined for completeness, consistency and credibility. Data quality issues relevant to the Indigenous identifier and framing of research questions were of particular interest. Results: The dataset comprised 477,518 records of 144,951 patients (Indigenous N = 1515; missi ....
Abstract Objective: Our college name The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) and Crest (Coat of Arms) are echoes of our colonial past, which create a barrier to an inclusive 21st-century Australasian psychiatry. Two hundred and fifty years after European settlement, this article reviews the colonial legacy, the evolution of the college and the process by which the prefix ‘Royal’ came to be attached. This is now an anachronism that symbolically undermines our mission to create a fully inclusive psychiatry for all Australians and New Zealanders, from indigenous people across the spectrum of cultures drawn from recent migrations within our complex multicultural society. Conclusion: As psychiatrists, it is time to modernise and reinvent the college name and Crest. We will be a healthier and more inclusive community of practice without the ‘Royal’ prefix, and with a new symbol for our college that embodies our values and vision. ....