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Aged care couple reading
22 March 2021 Media release
Get the care you want, not the care you don't want, at the end of life
Indigenous child
18 March 2021 Media release
Closing the gap vital to ensure health equity
Stethoscope resting on laptop
11 March 2021 Media release
Extended Temporary Telehealth by End of Month
Five year old Kopika Murugappan and her sister Tharunicaa in a detention centre yard
22 December 2020 Media release
Release the Biloela family from immigration detention
01 August 2020 Media release
DR ANTONIO DI DIO RECOGNISED FOR SERVICES TO AMA AND ASYLUM SEEKERS
01 August 2020 Media release
SEVEN DOCTORS RECOGNISED FOR OUTSTANDING SERVICE TO MEDICAL PROFESSION AND THE AMA
30 July 2020 Media release
NEW CLOSING THE GAP AGREEMENT A CHANCE FOR CHANGE
12 June 2020 Media release
GREATER INVESTMENT IN INDIGENOUS HEALTH WOULD REDUCE NEED FOR PROTESTS
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