The Indigenous hearing program that aims to end a ‘shameful crisis’

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Newly qualified audiometrist Margaret Murray, 53, from Albury with her niece Tegan Source: SBS News

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In an Australian first, newly-graduated Indigenous audiometrists are working to end the ‘shameful crisis’ of hearing loss among Aboriginal children.

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