Always Was, Always Will Be – tweeting for health during NAIDOC Week 2020
Dr Chris Bourke, a Gamilaroi man, senior executive at the Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Associ... Read more
With only 10 days left until submissions close to the Senate inquiry into media diversity in Australia, we are encouraging readers to consider making submissions on sustaining a healthy public interes... Read more
In this latest edition of The Health Wrap, Associate Professor Lesley Russell investigates wide-ranging challenges facing the rollout of COVID vaccines, reports on the latest news in climate and healt... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: The Disability Royal Commission condemned as a “serious failure” the fact that no Australian government agency including the Department of Health made any signific... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: The United Nations General Assembly will hold a special session on responses to the novel coronavirus pandemic this week, as the virus continues to surge in the Northern Hemis... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: The global Black Lives Matter movement and polarisation fueled by the novel coronavirus pandemic have heightened experiences of and awareness of racism in Australia and added... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: As parts of Australia sweltered through a record-breaking heatwave on the final weekend of spring, stoking dangerous fire conditions, Victorian chief health officer Brett Sutt... Read more
The Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care has developed a set of national standards to provide consumers, carers, referrers and providers with benchmarks for what constitutes safe... Read more
Health consumers are seeking to put the lessons learnt from the COVID-19 pandemic into action. Here, Ms Leanne Wells of the Consumers Health Forum of Australia (CHF) outlines the recommendations from... Read more
The interconnections between planetary health and human health were under the spotlight at the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine’s online conference today – check the Twitter stream at... Read more
Relationships, recognition and trust are the keys to a campaign helping Aboriginal people stay smoke-free on the NSW South Coast. This article is published by Croakey Professional Services as s... Read more
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