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Fig. 1 Indigenous infant mortality rate by maternal corrections history, Western Australian children born 1992 2011 (6-year average).

A history that has lead to an Indigenous infant mortality rate more than twice that of non-Indigenous children, a death rate five times that of non-Indigenous Australians, and an incarceration rate among juveniles 24 times that of non-indigenous Australians.

The second most common cause of injury among Indigenous infants who were hospitalised was due to other unintentional causes (28%), followed by assault (17%).

According to the extensive report from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, the most common cause of hospitalisation due to injury among Indigenous infants was a fall (38%), which was also true for other Australian infants (53% of hospitalisations).

This study aimed to evaluate immunisation timeliness in Indigenous infants in the Northern Territory, Australia.

Indigenous infants also had worse outcomes than non-Indigenous infants.

In Australia and New Zealand lower incidence of intussusception was observed in indigenous infants compared to non-indigenous infants [ 37], and specifically, among Maori compared with European infants, respectively [ 9].

In 2010, the reported two-dose Rotarix® vaccine coverage in the Northern Territory was 78.4%, considerably lower than other Australian states (83.2%–88.0%), with only 71.1% of Indigenous infants vaccinated compared to 85.1% of non-Indigenous infants.

Among Indigenous infants in the Northern Territory, the burden of diarrheal disease is high, with admissions coded for enteric infections occurring at a rate 10-fold higher than among non-Indigenous infants.

Mothers of Indigenous infants, however, were more likely to stay less than three days in hospital following birth.

Our data in this area reflects national trends although our rates of LBW Indigenous infants increased less dramatically.