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Claire Smith

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Friday essay: voices from the bush – how lockdown affects remote Indigenous communities differently


This article explores what self-isolation, social distancing means for one of Australia’s most remote Aboriginal communities, and how these communities cope with viral vulnerability during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Barriers and Solutions to Achieving Food Security for New Zealand Families


Food insecurity is defined as: "limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods or limited ability to acquire acceptable foods in a socially acceptable way" (Anderson, 1990). Food insecurity is associated with poorer nutritional outcomes and in the 2002 New Zealand Children's Nutrition Survey half of households studied reported food insecurity (Parnell, 2005).

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