The Wire

In the Goldfields region of Western Australia, mortality rates for Aboriginal babies have gone from being the worst in the state, to half the state average, in just a decade. Chair of the Ngunytju Tjitji Pirni Health Service Thomasisha Skelly, puts their success down to a wholistic and culturally sensitive approach. However despite the massive gains, the infant mortality rate of Aboriginal babies in the Goldfields is still 60% higher than non-Indigenous babies.