Aboriginal healers could become more commonplace in Australian health systems thanks to the work of ANTAC, a non-profit organisation promoting traditional Aboriginal medicine in South Australia ...

As the campfire burns slowly, a group of Aborigines build a "place of healing" in a remote outback camp where they will treat the ill using traditional bush medicines.

New deadline is Apr. 2. Original March 13 deadline to file an appeal was extended because the government is still working with the family to find “the most respectful and effective” ways to ...

When Dr Francesca Panzironi came to Australia several years ago to study how international legal standards related to Aboriginal traditional medicine, she was amazed at the lack of research or ...

Aboriginal healers using traditional bush medicine have been hired to treat Indigenous patients in an Adelaide public hospital. The traditional healers - known as Ngangkari - will work alongside ...

Aboriginal Australians were very susceptible to respiratory diseases, and after colonisation, flu and tuberculosis caused many deaths and contributed immensely to the decline of the Aboriginal ...

"It is this court's conclusion therefore, that D.H.'s decision to pursue traditional medicine for her daughter, J.J., is her aboriginal right. Further, such a right cannot be qualified as a right ...

An Adelaide-based Indigenous organisation that promotes traditional Aboriginal medicine is offering support to bushfire-affected communities in Victoria's East Gippsland region.

The case of an 11-year-old aboriginal girl with leukemia whose family wanted to treat her only with traditional medicine is the “perfect” type for a court procedure that could establish a firm ...

Aboriginal medicine ruling sparks instant controversy Legal experts see flaws in judge’s decision to allow Six Nations girl’s family to refuse treatment. Nov. 19, 2014. Nov ...