Indigenous Australia and health rights.
Over the last decade, there has been a significant shift in public policy in relation to indigenous Australians. The new policy frameworks have been marked by an antipathy towards a policy discourse based on a human rights framework. This has also been associated with a shift from an approach based on "self-determination" to one founded on the idea of "mutual obligation". This article describes these developments in detail and considers the implications for human rights discourse.
Centre for Health and Society and Onemda VicHealth Koori Health Unit, University of Melbourne, Australia.
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D001315:Australia; D006291:Health Policy; D006303:Health Services, Indigenous / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D006806:Human Rights / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006801:Humans; D044382:Population Groups