@nitv: Melanie Briggs, an Indigenous midwife at Waminda Health Centre on the New South Wales South Coast town of Nowra, has given evidence on the benefits of birthing on Country to a Senate Committee investigating women's health. Melanie told the committee that they've reduced premature births by almost 50 percent, as women get the culturally appropriate care they need and 200 on Country births in the past two years.