Crucial lessons from COVID-19

All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2020 May Crucial lessons from COVID19 Crucial lessons from COVID-19 28/05/2020 | 5 MINS Professor Patricia Dudgeon (pictured) and Dr Kate Derry from LITΓÇÖs School of Indigenous Studies have spent recent weeks hard at work investigating the impact of COVID-19 on Indigenous Australians. Their first task was identifying The Road to Recovery plan, along with other leading academics from the Group of Eight (Go8) Australia universities, to guide the Federal Government on charting a way out of social isolation. Now, they have turned their attention to mental health. Right now Australia can consider itself fortunate and celebrate that, so far, we have averted much of the direct threat from COVID-19 to our vulnerable Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. What worked so well in the pandemic response, and what has kept our communities safe, has been the leadership and capabilities of community-controlled organisations and service providers to move first to protect communities against the virus. The potential for devastation has been demon

All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2020 May Crucial lessons from COVID19 Crucial lessons from COVID-19 28/05/2020 | 5 MINS Professor Patricia Dudgeon (pictured) and Dr Kate Derry from LITΓÇÖs School of Indigenous Studies have spent recent weeks hard at work investigating the impact of COVID-19 on Indigenous Australians.

Their first task was identifying The Road to Recovery plan, along with other leading academics from the Group of Eight (Go8) Australia universities, to guide the Federal Government on charting a way out of social isolation.

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