Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Australia is home to over 170 land and sea snake varieties, including around 100 venomous species and 12 that are likely to inflict a wound that causes death.

In 2024-25, more than 2,100 Australians presented to hospital in due to a snake bite, according to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.

But WIRES, the Wildlife Information Rescue and Education Service, says snakes generally don't attack people unless provoked.

For more on this, I chatted with WIRES spokesperson and snake enthusiast, John Grant.

A study has revealed that Indigenous Australians linked to the so-called Stolen Generations experience more hardship compared with the wider Aboriginal population.

A report by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare shows about 200,000 Indigenous Australians have a relative who was removed from their family in the 1970s by the Australian Government.

Ian Hamm of the Healing Foundation says the long-term effects present significant challenges.

We're twice as likely as our non-Aboriginal colleagues to be experiencing mental health issues because it reinforces the lifelong trauma that the policy of stealing of children inflicted across so many Aboriginal people for so long.

A study has revealed that Indigenous Australians linked to the so-call, so-called Stolen Generations experience more hardship compared with the wider Aboriginal population.

A report by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare shows around two hundred thousand Indigenous Australians have a relative who was removed from their family in the nineteen seventies by the Australian government.

Ian Hamm of the Healing Foundation says the long-term effects present significant challenges.

We're twice as likely as our non-Aboriginal colleagues to be experiencing, uh, mental health issues because it reinforces the lifelong trauma that the policy of stealing of children inflicted across so many Aboriginal people for so long.

A study has revealed that Indigenous Australians linked to the so-called, so-called stolen generations experience more hardship compared with the wider Aboriginal population.

A report by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare shows around two hundred thousand Indigenous Australians have a relative who was removed from their family in the nineteen seventies by the Australian government.

Ian Hamm of the Healing Foundation says the long-term effects present significant challenges.

We're twice as likely as our non-Aboriginal colleagues to be experiencing, uh, mental health issues because it reinforces the lifelong trauma that the policy of stealing of children inflicted across so many Aboriginal people for so long.

We have different methods of collecting data that means sometimes it's very hard to compare.

We do have the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare has been tasked by government with... with building a data set so that we can really track progress.

And they are working on that very hard.

So we have big, big institutions that are working on this at the moment.

Yeah, the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare has been working on that for a number of years.

Is this something that National Cabinet is looking at as well? Is that part of the work that's being done there? Yeah.

It will be part of the work that's being done in terms of developing the second action plan is how do we ensure we've got the measures to really track impact.

We have different methods of collecting data that means sometimes it's very hard to compare.

We do have the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare has been tasked by government with building a data set so that we can really track progress and they are working on that very hard.

So we have big, big institutions that are working on this at the moment.

Yeah, the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare has been working on that for a number of years.

Is this something that National Cabinet is looking at as well? Is that part of the work that's being done there?

It will be part of the work that's being done in terms of developing the second action plan is how do we ensure we've got the measures to really track impact.

Now, I can give you gigabytes of data about what's happening in the older community.

And the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare publishes some amazing reports which demonstrate that we spend the bulk of our healthcare dollars at the moment because that's Basically, the main metric we have around healthcare consumption in Australia is how many dollars are spent in healthcare.

We can have a discussion about whether that's a good or bad thing, but the reality is that's how we measure the delivery of care, and it does skew towards older people.

This report looks at a younger population, and the statistic that 63% of Australians are using AI before seeing a healthcare professional...