Deadly Choices birth certificate initiative

Hey new parents don’t forget to register your bub’s birth.

Commemorate their birth with a Deadly Choices commemorative certificate.

A birth certificate gives your bub access to their rights, we are working with:

Institute for Urban Indigenous Health (IUIH), and
Townsville Aboriginal and Islander Health Services (TAIHS).

Who can apply

Parents can get a Deadly Choices birth certificate package (including a standard birth certificate), if:

their child is 5 or younger
they are patients at a participating IUIH or TAIHS clinic, and
they are up to date with their vaccinations and health checks.

How to apply

To apply for your child's free birth certificate package, you need to:

Get a Deadly Choices birth certificate package application from reception at your clinic.
Complete the application form.
Submit your application form in person, by email or by post.

This application form is only available from participating clinics and is not available from us.

Submit in person

Return the completed application form to the staff at your clinic.

Submit by email

Email the completed application form to BDMCommunityLiaison@justice.qld.gov.au.

Submit by post

Post your completed application form to:

Private and Confidential
Attention: Community Engagement Officer
Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages
PO Box 15188
CITY EAST QLD 4002

Community visits

We visit First Nations communities to help with registering bubs’ births and to help parents get certificates.

Come and have a yarn with us to get some help with applications.

Day 1: Tuesday 22 July 2025, 9am

Day 2: Wednesday 23 July 2025, 9am

Day 3: Thursday 24 July 2025, 3pm

Location: Mount Isa

Mount Isa Civic Centre
23 West Street
MOUNT ISA QLD 4825

Mount Isa Yarn Up Services

Our Community Engagement Officer, David will be joining other services at this event.

Our kids count birth registration

If you need to register your child's birth for the first time, come along and have a yarn with David. He will help you register your child's birth.

All new birth registrations completed on the day for bubs 0 to 16 will receive a free birth certificate and one commemorative certificate. You can choose one of these designs:

You will need to bring ID. This may include:

driver licence
Medicare card
bank card
government letter
Centrelink health benefit card.

But if you don't have ID, no worries—David will work it out with you.

Participating clinics

The listed Aboriginal medical services in these locations are taking part in the program.

Select your region:

Far North Queensland
North Queensland
Central Queensland
South West Queensland
North West Queensland
South East Queensland

Far North Queensland

Wuchopperen Health Service in:

Manoora
Edmonton
Atherton

Mamu Health Service in:

Innisfail
Tully
Babinda
Ravenshoe

Mulungu Aboriginal Corporation in Mareeba

Gurriny Yealamucka Health Service in Yarrabah

North Queensland

TAIHS in Townsville

Mackay Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community Health Service (ATSICHS) in Mackay

Central Queensland

Bidgerdii Community Health Service in:

Rockhampton
North Rockhampton
Mount Morgan

Nhulundu Health Service in Gladstone

Galangoor Duwalami in:

Hervey Bay
Maryborough

South West Queensland

Charleville and Western areas Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Community Health (CWAATSICH) in:

Mitchell
Roma
Quilpie

Cunnamulla Aboriginal Corporation for Health in Cunnamulla

North West Queensland

Gidgee Healing in:

Mt Isa
Normanton
Doomadgee
Mornington Island

South East Queensland

ATSICHS Brisbane in:

Acacia Ridge
Browns Plains
Logan
Loganlea
Northgate
Salisbury Mums and Bubs
Woolloongabba

Kalwun in:

Bilinga
Oxenford
Miami

Kambu in:

Goodna
Ipswich
Laidley

Moreton ATSICHS in:

Caboolture
Deception Bay
Margate
Morayfield
Strathpine

Yulu Burri-Ba in:

Capalaba
Mums and Bubs Capalaba
Dunwich
Wynnum