"The birthing experience of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women is fundamentally culturally different from that of non-Indigenous women. Birthing is and continues to be in some communities a cultural rite of passage where knowledge, practices and beliefs are transferred from older to younger women, identity and links are established to land and connections with country are shared and celebrated."
- Submission from Australian Indigenous Doctors’ Association to Maternity Services Review, '09.
Catrina Felton-Busch, former Indigenous Studies Coordinator at MICRRH shares her own experiences and expresses her views on the topic in the following video.
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Wednesday, January 27, 2010
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