Volume 223, Issue 6 | The Medical Journal of Australia

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Editor’s choice

Land, culture, rights and self‐determination: foundations of Indigenous health

Virginia Barbour

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (6): 281-281 Free

Perspective

The contribution of evidence‐based practice and the practice‐based evidence approaches to contemporary Australian psychology: implications for culturally safe practice

Paul Gray (Wiradjuri), Dawn Darlaston‐Jones, Pat Dudgeon AM (Bardi), Kate Derry, Joanna Alexi, William Smith (Wiradjuri and Wemba Wemba), Tanja Hirvonen (Jaru and Bunuba), David Badcock, Shraddha Kashyap and Belle Selkirk (Noongar)

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (6): 282-288 Open Access

Explaining risk in chronic conditions: the Yolŋu science of signs

Emma Haynes, Alison Mitchell, Minitja Marawili (Yolŋu) and Dawn C Bessarab (Bardi)

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (6): 289-291 Open Access

Voluntary assisted dying: challenges in Northern Territory remote Aboriginal communities

Geetanjali Lamba, Kane Vellar, C Paul Burgess, Camille La Brooy and Paul A Komesaroff

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (6): 292-295 Open Access

Systemic challenges for meaningful partnerships in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and medical research grant applications: a critical reflection

Heather McCormack, Troy Combo and Bridget G Haire

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (6): 296-298 Open Access

Reflection

Alison Bush memorial oration: supporting First Nations community‐designed and led maternal health initiatives

Karel Williams

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (6): 299-301 Free

Editorial

Beyond endorsement: reflecting on the 18th anniversary of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

Sophie Pitt

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (6): 302-303 Free

Research

Country revealing the way: evaluating Elder‐governed cultural therapy for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people with mental health conditions

Alasdair Vance, Janet McGaw, Jo Winther, Naomi Tootell, Herb Patten and Sandra Eades

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (6): 304-311 Open Access

An Aboriginal women‐led approach to design a maternal and child health model when cardiometabolic complications are experienced in pregnancy in South Australia

Karrina DeMasi (Barkandji), Dana Shen (Ngarrindjeri), Phoebe McColl, Amanda Richards‐Satour (Adnyamathanha and Barngarla), Carolyn Renehan (Central Arrernte), Kim Morey (Anmatyerr and Eastern Arrernte), Karen Glover (Mein:tnk and Wotjobaluk), Cathy Leane (Dharug), Kristine Woods‐Hampton (Anmatijerre), Lorraine Garay (Anangu), Eloise Baker (Adnyamathanha and Barngarla), Rebecca Nielsen (Kalkadoon) and Katharine Brown

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (6): 312-319 Open Access

Scoping review

Values in health and health care for Indigenous people globally: an umbrella review

Lynda J Coe, Yvonne Dimitropoulos, Kiri Mealings, Dylan Barnes and Catherine M McMahon