The Wire

Over three-hundred experts converged for a public health conference in Brisbane today to discuss the apparently never-ending issue of poverty and disadvantage.

And nowhere is that more obvious than within Australia’s indigenous population. Lisa Jackson Pulver was the first indigenous person to receive a PhD in medicine, and after years in the field, has developed her own ideas on how the gap could be closed. She says that indigenous people might be in a bad way now, but with a few changes, they could be teaching the rest of Australia a lot about the way we live our lives.