How Birthing on Country helps Indigenous mums
It's not about homebirths, it's about connecting culture with clinical care, says Melanie Robinson
16th October 2019
By Lydia Hales
As proposals go, it seems radical: MBS funding for midwives to attend Indigenous women with low-risk pregnancies wanting homebirths on culturally significant land. The reform was one among a range of suggestions made by the MBS Review Taskforce through its Midwife Reference Group last year.