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Volume 223 Issue 1

7 July 2025

Cover image credit: Uncle Paul’s walking stick against background of Seven Mile Beach and Cullunghutti, Yuin Nation

Artist (Walking stick): Paul D Scott (Yuin)

Photographer (Walking stick): Karina Sutcliffe

Background photo: The Atlas of Photos/shutterstock.com

Editor’s choice

2025 Special Issue on Indigenous Health

Virginia Barbour, on behalf of the MJA team

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (1): 3-3 Free

Perspective

Taking up the challenge of eliminating racism in health care through talking about race (and culture)

Chelsea J Watego, David Singh, Kevin Yow Yeh, Helena Kajlich and Saran Singh

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (1): 4-8 Open Access

Decolonising primary health care practice: a definition and its importance

Tamara J Mackean, Kim O'Donnell, Juanita Sherwood, Shane D'Angelo, Madison Shakespeare, Cleone Wellington, Toby Freeman, Anna M Ziersch, Matt Fisher, Deborah A Askew, Judith M Dwyer, Annette J Browne and Fran Baum AO

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (1): 9-12 Open Access

Climate and environmental crisis: effects on ear and hearing health in Australia and for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples

Georgia M Tongs (Wiradjuri), Isabella Ludbrook, Jennifer H Martin, Robert Eisenberg and Kelvin M Kong (Worimi)

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (1): 14-18 Open Access

Core components of a best practice First Nations cancer coordinator role

Mollie C Wilson, Marissa Mulcahy, Jennifer Philip, Brian H Le and Gail Garvey

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (1): 19-22 Open Access

Fulfilling First Nations health, cultural safety and equity accreditation standards in primary medical education: reflections from a First Nations desktop review team

Paul Saunders, Nicole Mercer, Maria Mackay, Ian Lee, Madelyne Hudson‐Buhagiar, Miriam Cavanagh, Emma Milliss, Melody Muscat, Kathleen Martin, Adam Shipp, Melissa Johnson and Belinda Gibb

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (1): 23-27 Open Access

Editorial

Indigenous Health Special Issue 2025: carving our path with spirit, strength and solidarity

Paul Saunders (Biripi), Pat Dudgeon (Bardi), Michelle Kennedy (Wiradjuri), Kelvin M Kong (Worimi), Jaquelyne T Hughes (Wagadagam) and Odette Pearson (Eastern Kuku‐Yalanji and Torres Strait Islander)

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (1): 28-29 Free

Research

What do Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory value during the operation journey? A qualitative study

Edith B Waugh, Marita Hefler, Sophie Pascoe, Mark Mayo, Matthew JL Hare, David A Story, Neil Wilkshire, Peter Henwood, David Croker and Jampijinpa Ross

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (1): 30-37 Open Access

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voices on the National Lung Cancer Screening Program: a qualitative study from Worimi and Awabakal country

Tanika L Ridgeway (Worimi), Kayden Roberts‐Barker (Wiradjuri), Kade Booth and Michelle Kennedy (Wiradjuri)

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (1): 38-45 Open Access

Am I on the list? Clinician‐reported factors for kidney transplantation non‐waitlisting among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with kidney failure: a cross‐sectional study

Stephen P McDonald AM, Katie Cundale, Christopher E Davies, Kelli Karrikarringka Owen (Kaurna, Nharangga, and Ngarrindjeri), Kerry Dole, Feruza Kholmurodova, Matilda D’Antoine (Paakantyi) and Jaquelyne T Hughes (Wagadagam)

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (1): 46-53 Open Access