Introduction by Croakey: Leading Australian public health specialist Dr Tarun Weeramanthri is urging Australia’s Infection Control Expert Group (ICEG) and the bodies it advises, including Na... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: As Guardian Australia reported, disability advocates have condemned the failure to prioritise disability care in the national COVID-19 vaccine rollout to date. That... Read more
Amid rising long-term use of antidepressants globally, a new Cochrane review has found there is little high quality evidence on safe and effective approaches to stopping treatment. Cochrane... Read more
Overnight, US President Joe Biden opened his Virtual Leaders Summit on Climate, declaring real climate action to be “a moral imperative, an economic imperative (in) a moment of peril b... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: National Cabinet is expected to decide tomorrow on a series of options to address significant glitches in Australia’s vaccine rollout to date, including mass v... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: Today’s guilty verdict in the trial of United States police officer Derek Chauvin for the killing of George Floyd, that sparked #BlackLivesMatter protests acro... Read more
The success of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, communities and organisations in keeping people safe through the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia has been hailed, in... Read more
One of the few preventive health initiatives on the table so far in Tasmania’s 1 May election, says Tasmanian public health researcher and consultant Miriam Vandenberg, is a promise from Lab... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: A recent study of seven Australian hospitals found that “unprofessional behaviour” is highly prevalent among hospital workers, with 39 percent of those surveyed repo... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: The Federal Government this week removed two videos designed to teach children and teenagers about consent, following widespread criticism from both Liberal and Labo... Read more
