- Dr Lara Wieland -
Here is a selection of my publications. Click on the title to view the whole text, or chose a category on the left.
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Dirty big secret
17.05.2006
A new report reveals that constant calls for an end to child sex abuse and violence in some indigenous communities have been ignored, writes Tony Koch WHEN Prime Minister John Howard visited Napranum and Aurukun Aboriginal communities near Weipa on... read more -
More abused black kids put in care
08.12.2005
RECORD numbers of Aboriginal children on remote communities in Queensland are being taken into care because of a ``zero tolerance'' attitude to child abuse being adopted by police and child protection agencies. Most Gulf and Cape York communities --... read more -
Stolen Generation fears keep kids in abuse
29.09.2005
SENSITIVITIES over the issue of the Stolen Generation risk preventing authorities from removing abused indigenous children from their families, an Aboriginal leader has warned. Mick Gooda, former chief executive of ATSIC, told a conference in Alice... read more -
Blind eye to indigenous health funds fraud'
22.07.2005
GOVERNMENT funding to remote Aboriginal communities for child health and care programs was often embezzled, no health care was delivered and nothing was done about those misusing the funds, a Cape York general practitioner, Lara Wieland, said... read more -
Care crisis for troubled juveniles
19.07.2005
YOUNG children with severe behavioural problems are each costing taxpayers more than $350,000 a year for 24-hour professional care and therapy under a $20million Queensland government program that caters for fewer than 300 adolescents. While health... read more -
Anger as fund rort source is named
25.10.2004
A NORTH Queensland doctor has expressed fears for her safety after being exposed as the whistleblower in a report identifying serious mismanagement of government funding on the Cape York Aboriginal community of Kowanyama. Dr Lara Wieland, who spent... read more -
Bureaucrats choke life from health care
24.01.2004
PREMIER Peter Beattie told Queensland on January 13 that he was calling a state election because he needed a mandate to address the shameful shortcomings in relation to the care of children in need in Queensland. He was responding to an investigation by... read more
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