Informed, engaged communities for health
In May 2013, the first edition of The Health Wrap was published at Croakey as a pro bono service to...
This fortnight’s Health Wrap, compiled by The Australian Prevention Partnership Centre Senior Communications Officer Helen Signy, takes a look at how...
This fortnight’s Health Wrap, compiled by Sax Institute Publications Manager Megan Howe, takes a look at how the media covered three of...
The Health Wrap from the Sax Institute communications team takes a look at the media coverage of three of the top...
This fortnight’s Health Wrap from the Sax Institute takes a look at how the media covered three of the top public...
This fortnight’s Health Wrap, compiled by Sax Institute Publications Manager Megan Howe, takes a look at how the media covered...
This fortnight’s Health Wrap is compiled by Helen Signy, Senior Communications Officer at The Australian Prevention Partnership Centre, based at the Sax...
Wishing you good health while reading the Wrap, compiled by Robert Button, Media and Communications Manager at the Sax Institute....
**WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are warned that this article contains the names and images of deceased persons...
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Alison Verhoeven
Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association
As CEO of the Victorian Mental Illness Awareness Council (VMIAC), it is my pleasure to write a testimonial for Croakey. In the past three years, VMIAC have happily engaged the services of Marie McInerney and her team at Croakey to cover major events in the life of VMIAC. We have been fortunate to have Croakey cover our awards night last year and our conference the year before. Marie has brilliantly captured the essence of our organisation and the views of our members and stakeholders. I cannot envisage a time when we will not engage Croakey as we find their brand of journalism uplifting, accurate and honest. Marie’s ability to draw out the stories she produces is wonderfully fresh and always empowering. I would not hesitate to recommend Croakey as a leading service to any event.
Maggie Toko
CEO of the Victorian Mental Illness Awareness Council (VMIAC)
Croakey not only gives me up to date information on contemporary health issues, but allows me to send my health information across Australia in an instant. It is also the perfect vehicle for starting peoples’ movements, engaging with Indigenous peoples and our issues, and building a community that has at its basis a desire to make positive change happen. It is polite and political, informative and inspiring. Active engagement is what Croakey does – and I like it!
Professor Kerry Arabena
Public health leader
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Clare Fletcher
The Walkley Foundation
HUGE congratulations to all the Croakey team on your coverage of our Summit. To say we have been delighted with the event, your coverage and the wash up is an understatement. You did such a fantastic job. I know how much there was to synthesise! I was particularly impressed with the flair and variety in how you approached the various pieces of coverage.
Leanne Wells
Chief Executive Officer, Consumer Health Forum of Australia re: #ShiftingGears (2021)
Croakey is one of the few places where public health “activists” can vent their spleen. (I’m not sure why we’re called ‘activists’, but we certainly need a place to ‘vent’.) It’s also a useful place for journalists/media to find contacts who can speak intelligently on public health issues.
Dr Rosemary Stanton OAM
Public health nutrition "activist"
The future of health care is too important to leave to the mainstream media. Croakey provides a platform for robust, respectful and inclusive debate on the health issues that really matter.
Jennifer Doggett
Croakey editor and health policy analyst
Croakey – like a sore throat spreading amongst friends – helps to spread healthy ideas rapidly through the blog and the Twittersphere. Thank you Croakey.
Michael Moore
Public health leader
Croakey provides an informed voice to the health, equity and environmental debates, and is helping mobilise the necessary political and popular support for a radical break from the complacent and compartmentalized attitude that still dominates much of the political agenda.
Professor Sharon Friel
Australian National University
Croakey is an important part of the health landscape providing progressive, current and incisive commentary.
Professor Fran Baum
Professor of Public Health, Flinders University
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We are working very hard to ensure Croakey Health Media becomes sustainable into the future. Every donation helps! No amount is too small to make a difference. You can choose to make a one-off donation or become a regular donor.
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Gordon Gregory
Rural health advocate
