Horus

I am serious. They do receive less.

If a settlement in an isolated location is characterised by a largely white population, there is more infrastructure.

If the isolated settlement is largely Indigenous populated, there is/has/and maybe always will be (at this current rate) less services.

Given that blindness in Indigenous communities is a result of easily treated eye disease (not heard of in white communities), this indicates third world health conditions, and I think that is pretty indicative of the lack of funding provided to Indigenous communities. The communities may be isolated. But sometimes the population can be relatively significant.

Diabetes is another health issue in Indigenous Communities. Often because the community does not have access to fresh fruit and vegies as other isolated communities do.

They have higher infant mortality and significantly shorter life expectancy, again, indicative of lack of funding not seen in white communities, isolated or not.

Often when white people live in isolated communities (as I have in the past), they are there for an economic purpose, and have the resources to fly out to access health, education, economic services. Indigneous people don't have those resources. And when they do front up at the hospitals, it's hard for them to face up to white health carers.

Liz
Sounds nice.

However, the major portion of Aborigines live in towns & cities with services & infrastructure.Yet it seems the standards of urban Aborigines (on average) are also below par.

How does this fit with your conclusion?

Horus

That's not true.

The largest Indigenous populations are in Far North Qld and the Northern Territory.

The majority of Aboriginals live in regional areas.

Um Liz! “REGIONAL” is not a synonym for outback campsite.

Regional Australia INCLUDES many, many large cities & town & most of regional Australia’s population ( Aboriginal & non-Aboriginal ) resides in those 'urban' centres.
Regional Australia has services-though less, has infrastructure-though less , than metro Australia.

Try again

Horus,

As an educated and relatively healthy Aboriginal man living in a regional city in North Queensland believe me when I say that many of the large regional towns in far north Queensland do not have the health infrastructure to deal with the health of Indigenous Australians. Diabetes is a good example. If allocated funding for Indigenous Australians (who are in many cases not on Health care) suffer from more chronic conditions then non Indigenous people (check the states)obviously funding allocated is insufficient. The AMA has been saying this for years.

2deadly

When I wrote my above post to Horus, I was going to say remote, because that is my understanding that most Indigenous people in Australia reside in remote communities in Queensland and the NT. Am I right?

I get what you mean in regards to services available to regional areas in Queensland. My sister in FNQ had to come to Brisbane to see a specialist for her daughter. I hear the same occurs for people living in Townsville and Mackay.