Aboriginal health workers exiting the NT industry, despite high Indigenous population

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The Northern Territory is the only place in the nation with falling numbers of health sector workers trained to bridge cultural gaps between First Nations and non-Indigenous people.

 

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'Yet despite the decline in numbers, the spokesperson said some of the workers leaving are moving into other health streams like nursing or medicine.' Another manufactured crisis as an excuse for more taxpayers money.

NT government is not only dysfunctional, it’s broke in every sense of the word.

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