Dr. Matthew Wright, a former district medical officer in Docker River, has stated that high food prices in remote stores are contributing in large part to chronic Aboriginal child hunger in the Northern Territory. According to the Minister for Central Australia, the Government's new indigenous health strategy will include provisions to help regulate remote store pricing.

The Northern Territory government is taking unprecedented steps to eradicate the gap between health services provided to whites and those for Aborigines. Health Minister Jane Aagaard, upon revealing the new plan on Tuesday, May 21 stated, “The territory cannot be allowed to exist with one part of its population largely healthy and one part largely sick.”

Disparities between the health of the white population and the indigenous population are to be addressed by reforms in funding as revealed by Health Minister Jane Aagaard. Under the new plan, Aboriginal communities will gain greater control of their own health resources, and permanent doctors will be assigned to each of 21 new indigenous health zones, where visits by doctors have previously been sporadic. See Spotlight Article

The Federal Government ‘s “practical” approach to reconciliation is degrading and disrespectful to Aborigines. Dr. William Jonas, the Aboriginal and Islander Social Justice Commissioner, believes the new reconciliation approach has gone nowhere since hundreds of thousands of Australians marched for the cause a couple of years ago.