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![ABC News: Racism and cultural safety in health care](https://abstarr.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/facebook-400x284.jpg)
![Keynote Address 2019 Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioner’s National Conference](https://abstarr.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/GP19_0337-400x284.jpg)
The 2019 Conference theme was 'Realising the Potential in Primary Health Care: Technology, Teamwork and Equity'.
![Australia must embrace ‘cultural safety’ if we are to close the gap](https://abstarr.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/team-gregory-phillips-400x284.jpg)
Cultural safety refers to addressing racism and unconscious bias in the enabling environment delivering policy or services to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The term ...
![Radio: DNA and Aboriginal Identity](https://abstarr.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/facebook-400x284.jpg)
![Cardiac care report underscores a new push to embed cultural safety across health systems](https://abstarr.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/GregJFFeature-400x284.jpg)
The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare’s third such national report, Better Cardiac Care measures for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, shows that while some ...
![New council to give Aboriginal Victorians more power in government decisions](https://abstarr.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/flag-400x284.jpg)
The council will drive Aboriginal policy in Victoria, which community leaders said flipped the usual top-down bureaucratic model where policies that affect Aborigines are largely ...
![Video: Communities in Control](https://abstarr.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/facebook-400x284.jpg)
Dr Phillips analyses the motivations of mainstream organisations in 'doing' Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander services and business. He calls out how racism and power inequalities ...
![Radio: ‘Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras special’](https://abstarr.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/facebook-400x284.jpg)
We chew over the hot topics of the week with Greg Phillips and Daniel Browning.
Listen to the recording here...
![The Importance of Unconscious Bias](https://abstarr.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Unknown-400x284.jpeg)
In delivering her findings of the coronial inquest into the death of 22-year-old Ms Dhu during time spent in a Western Australian jail cell, state coroner Ros Fogliani was highly ...
![The Land We Play On](https://abstarr.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/cvc982w5-1468377220-400x284.jpg)
Sport, we’re told, lies at the heart of what it means to be Australian. But what in reality does this mean? The Conversation, in partnership with Griffith Review, is publishing a ...
![Aboriginality and DNA](https://abstarr.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/facebook-400x284.jpg)
Aboriginal identity has at least three parts to it. I write here according to Aboriginal values and perspectives, not the Commonwealth’s deeply flawed three part administrative ...
![Public Speech: ‘What’s the ‘good’ in the good fight? Questions for ethical thinking in strange times’](https://abstarr.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/facebook-400x284.jpg)
As globalisation and technology draw the world closer together, they’ve also revealed chasms in how we relate to each other as nations, cultures and individuals – and how we resolve ...