How a rethink of ED care is closing the gap, one person at a time
You can see the gap driving through the main street of Katherine in the Northern Territory.
The broken shop windows, the dust, the wheelchairs and crutches and bandaged bodies sing out poor health and inequity.
Overcrowding and homelessness are pervasive, and there is very little reprieve from the oppressive heat.
For instance, the town has some of the highest rates of homelessness in Australia, in a jurisdiction with the highest incarceration rates, lowest life expectancy and the poorest educational outcomes.
