Failing to plan is planning to fail: advance care directives and the Aboriginal people of the Top End

• 1 Royal Darwin Hospital, Darwin, NT
• 2 Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance Northern Territory, Darwin, NT
• 3 Territory Palliative Care, Northern Territory Department of Health, Darwin, NT

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