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Affairs:     NT coroner finds language barrier contributed to
death   PM - Monday, 1 September , 2008  17:21:00  Reporter:
Zoie Jones  MARK COLVIN: The Northern Territory coroner today
found that a trail of miscommunication led to the death of an
elderly Aboriginal man who was left alone at a remote airstrip
two years ago.  Frail, partly deaf and without water, the man
had just returned home after hospital treatment in a town 300km
away. His body was found a week after he was dropped off, in
scrub near the airstrip.  The coroner has recommended a series
of changes to the Territory health system, including more
Aboriginal interpreters, to stop similar deaths.  In Darwin,
Zoie Jones reports.  ZOIE JONES: During the coronial hearing,
the frail man who died alone under a tree at the Kalkaringi
airstrip was simply known as the "Old Man", t