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To improve indigenous health, we must improve indigenous housing
By Laureate Professor Hugh Taylor AC, Emma Stanford and Mitchell D Anjou, University of Melbourne
In order to see improvements in Indigenous health, we must improve Indigenous housing and that can only be done with Indigenous involvement and leadership.
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The recommendation of the recent Senate report to re-establish the National Partnership Agreement on Remote Indigenous Housing is to be applauded.
More importantly, it should be implemented as a matter of urgency.
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