The highest Indigenous infant mortality rate in the 2010–12 census was in:
a. South Australia.
b. Northern Territory.
c. South Australia.
d. Western Australia.
b
Although declines in infant mortality occurred in
Western Australia, South Australia and the Northern Territory, the Northern Territory had the highest Indigenous
infant mortality rate in this period.
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