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A new report, spurred by the continuing failure of successive Australian governments to close the health gap, puts Aboriginal-led primary healthcare organisations squarely at the centre of real and lasting change. The team behind the 'Decolonise now' report. But it...
Renal nurse, Nick Corsair, has been named Nurse/Midwife of the Year at the 2025 Western Australian Rural Health Excellence Awards – proudly sponsored by CRANAplus. Under his leadership, kidney transplants in the Kimberley region have surged, rising from just one in...
Citizen science is at the heart of a new research project helping remote desert communities prepare for, and respond to, increasingly extreme weather. The project draws on Aboriginal people's traditional knowledge and lived experience of environmental change, as well...
As a CRANAplus Board Member and Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander Health Practitioner, Naomi Zaro was honoured to represent our organisation at a joint breakfast event hosted by the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Practitioner Board of Australia...
CRANAplus Member and Fellow, Lyn Byers, writes about the importance of sexual health education in the remote setting, and shares her tips for broaching the subject. Lyn Byers. Over 50% of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population across Australia is young –...
Naomi Zaro, descendant of the Meriam (Dauareb) people of the Torres Strait, uses her platform as a re-elected CRANAplus Board Member to be a voice for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Health Practitioners who play a valuable role in rural and remote health...
Melina Connors, inaugural First Nations Midwifery Director for Queensland Health, is passionate about the state’s Growing Deadly Families strategy. Here she talks about how her new role plays a vital part in that passion. Melina speaking at the CRANAplus 2024 Remote...
CRANAplus spoke with medical doctor, researcher and educator, Dr Allison Hempenstall, Public Health Medical Officer of the Torres and Cape Hospital and Health Service, to discuss the nuances of acute post-streptococcal glomerulonephritis (APSGN), its causes, symptoms,...
Aboriginal community-controlled health services are the way of the future, says Registered Nurse and Midwife Lesley Woolf, Executive Health Manager – Health, Aged Care & Community Services – at Mala’la Health Service Aboriginal Corporation in Maningrida. Photo credit:...
We are on the road to eliminate trachoma in Australia, says environmental health expert Dr Melissa Stoneham. But Melissa, who heads up the service-delivery Environmental Health Trachoma Project (#endingtrachoma) run by the Public Health Advocacy Institute (PHAI) based...
CRANAplus Nursing and Midwifery Roundtable member Michelle Appo shares insight into her recent experience in Halls Creek WA, and why she is carefully considering each step in her pathway to remote area nursing. Michelle speaking at the CRANAplus 40th Annual Conference...
2021 NT Australian of the Year, Dr Wendy Page spent three decades working in East Arnhem Land with Miwatj Health Aboriginal Corporation, fighting a parasitic enemy that is invisible to the naked eye and capable of multiplying into the millions – with incredible...