Aboriginal Health Service

(over and beyond Medicare)
Brochure material reads: "An organisation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, controlled By Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People".

In the main, these clinics - which included medical, dental, along with specialist clinics like diabetic, child health, women's health, nutrition, mental health, ante-natal care, and welfare and community development - are exclusively for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. Expenditure for 1994 - 95 was $69.669m.

There are 96 such clinics around Australia, from the remote areas of central Australia to downtown Brisbane and Redfern.

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