the Australian Number of Number 2006 1,401 4,082 5,483 125,491 404,844 530,335 While the Indigenous health Aboriginal employed workforce has grown and Torres persons in between 1996 and 2006, the Strait health non-Indigenous health Islander related workforce has grown at a people in the faster rate and there has health been a 20% increase in the workforce gap between them. In 2006, (noting that the health occupation with they will not the largest number of all be serving Indigenous Australians was Aboriginal nursing (1,449) followed by and Torres nursing support and Strait personal care workers (974), Islander and Aboriginal and Torres people, and Strait Islander Health that there
the Australian Number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the health workforce (noting that they will not all be serving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and that there Number employed persons in health related 2006 1,401 4,082 5,483 125,491 404,844 530,335 While the Indigenous health workforce has grown between 1996 and 2006, the non-Indigenous health workforce has grown at a faster rate and there has been a 20% increase in the gap between them. In 2006, the health occupation with the largest number of Indigenous Australians was nursing (1,449) followed by nursing support and personal care workers (974), and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health
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