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In Australia’s health and medical professions, scopes of practice are diverse and progressive, but they are not used effectively. Our health workforce is a key healthcare resource that are often under-utilised and could help deliver improved access to healthcare, new models of care and better health outcomes.

In the past decade ‘race’ has surfaced in public discourse concerning constitutional reform to limit the capacity of parliament’s race powers to discriminate negatively against Indigenous people and people of colour.

The Inala Indigenous Health Service (IIHS), a mainstream health service has been in operation since 1995. In the first year of operation only 12 Indigenous patients were identified. Today the service has over 10,000 patients registered with around 4,000 regular patients.

Dr Danielle Butler, General Practitioner | Epidemiologist | Health Services Research, Institute for Urban Indigenous Health
Antoinette White, Research Assistant, Institute for Urban Indigenous Health

Dr Shea Spierings
Poche Centre for Indigenous Health
The University of Queensland

Professor James Ward
Poche Centre for Indigenous Health
The University of Queensland