A report has unveiled recently that the Rural Health Education Foundation has released a new television health channel with an aim to aid in the closure of the health gap realized between Australia's urban and rural areas.

There is good news for the chronically ill veterans. The Federal Government has announced that through high speed National Broadband Network (NBN), the health of the veterans would be monitored from their home.

It has been revealed in a recent report that the elderly people who are chronically ill shall soon be able to avail the facility of having their health monitored at their own homes. This shall be according to the national broadband network by the Federal Government.

As per recent reports, it has been claimed that a centre will be founded in Albany on the south coast of WA with the intent of marking the centenary of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps.

Warren Snowdon, Indigenous Health Minister has warned of the ineffectiveness of anti-smoking campaigns in indigenous communities and he suggested that new methods should be devised to curb the menace associated with smoking.

The Federal Government will splurge $550,000 to assist aboriginal men's groups to end hostility in their societies.

The allowance will be shared amongst seven diverse groups throughout the nation.

Half a dozen more medical graduates would be sent to the local areas as there has been a deficit in the number of doctors available in the country. Minister for Rural and Regional Health Warren Snowdon says that, 50 per cent of the medical graduates will be providing services to rural and regional areas of Australia.