Category: Media Release

AIDA President, Dr Jonathan Newchurch,congratulates the Hon Mark Butler and Senator Malarndirri McCarthy on their reappointments.

AIDA welcomes Federal Labor’s pledge of $1 billion support for mental health care  Primary Health Care Funding in Budget

AIDA’s 2024-25 Federal Budget Response

AIDA welcomes $8.5 Billion Prioritisation of Primary Health Care Funding

Australian Indigenous Doctors’ Association to lead the Leaders in Indigenous Medical Education (LIME) program.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander doctors in training are experiencing racism at double the rate of their non-Indigenous colleagues. Results from the latest Medical Training Survey (MTS) have revealed that this is the experience of 38% of First Nations trainees compared to 17% of non-Indigenous doctors in training, indicating that racism is prevalent in the … Continued

The Australian Indigenous Doctors Association (AIDA) welcomes the findings this week of the Northern Territory Coroner, Elisabeth Armitage, into the deaths of four Aboriginal women in the NT as a result of domestic and family violence. The systemic failures of services to protect women must be addressed as an urgent priority.  Governments and the service providers they … Continued

The Australian Indigenous Doctors’ Association (AIDA) are proud to be hosting the Pacific Region Indigenous Doctors’ Congress (PRIDoC 2024) and to welcome Indigenous doctors from across the Pacific to gather on Kaurna Country / Adelaide from 2 to 6 December.  The theme of PRIDoC 2024 is Ngadluku Warra, Ngadluku Tapa Purruna, Ngadluku Purruna which translates … Continued

The Australian Indigenous Doctors Association (AIDA) is deeply concerned at the new Northern Territory CLP government’s plan to lower the age of criminal responsibility back to 10 years old.    The medical evidence is clear that children of this age have age related brain development and therefore, immature higher functions such as planning, reasoning, judgement and … Continued

The Department of Health and Aged Care’s GP workforce report, released on Monday, has confirmed what many in the health sector already knew: Australia is facing a significant shortage of General Practitioners. There’s a current shortage of 2460 Full Time Equivalent (FTE) GPs and this number is predicted to rise to 5560 FTE GPs by … Continued