NewMed is committed to improving the health of Australia’s First Nations peoples.

    Throughout our program, we are building student-centred opportunities to engage in clinical education and healthcare across Australia. NewMed seeks to support the health of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islanders, Australia’s First Nations peoples. NewMed has and will integrate the knowledge and practices of our First Nations peoples into our program:

    • Our commitment to graduating culturally safe practitioners;
    • Our commitment to embedding Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander health content throughout the program and ensuring that our teaching and learning practices are culturally safe and inclusive;
    • Our commitment to providing students with opportunities to learn how to address in their practice the systemic disadvantage, power differentials and historical injustices of colonisation.
    Health of multicultural Australia

    NewMed acknowledges the rich tapestry of Australia’s multicultural society, which includes people from all over the world, and addresses this through the Cultural Safety and Equity stream.

    The traditional name for Brisbane, Australia is Meeanjin. It was given by the Turrbal people and means “the place of the blue water lily”.
    The traditional name for Brisbane, Australia is Meeanjin. It was given by the Turrbal people and means “the place of the blue water lily”.

    “We acknowledge the traditional owners of the lands and waterways on which NewMed campuses are situated and where our students live and study.

    We pay respects to Australia's First Nations elders past and present and to future generations whose culture, health, and welfare are reflected in NewMed's core values.”

    Artwork by Professor Brad Murphy a proud Kamilaroi doctor from North-Western NSW, a Rural Generalist with extensive rural and remote clinical experience, now based in Bundaberg, Queensland.