Enid Warringar, health worker mentor

Our history

Government polices and doctrines have been central in the history of dispossession of Indigenous peoples in Australia.

Poverty and exclusion from health care for Indigenous Australians are the results of colonial power and dispossession.

Select Radio to listen to the impact these policies have had on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' health.

To learn more about the types of practices that have contributed to the ill health and low wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples since colonization, select a policy.