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EDITORIAL

If not now, when? Implementation failure of a rights- and value-based policy agenda for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health

Roxanne Bainbridge A *
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A Poche Centre for Indigenous Health, The University of Queensland, 74 High Street, Toowong, Qld 4066, Australia.

* Correspondence to: r.bainbridge@uq.edu.au

Australian Health Review 47(1) 1-2 https://doi.org/10.1071/AH23011
Submitted: 19 January 2023  Accepted: 20 January 2023   Published: 2 February 2023

© 2023 The Author(s) (or their employer(s)). Published by CSIRO Publishing on behalf of AHHA.


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