In the first Health Wrap of 2020, Dr Lesley Russell looks back at the issues on the health agenda in 2019 (and sadly for many years, if not decades, before this) and provides an overview of... Read more
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander family violence leaders were on Wednesday urgently seeking a meeting with the Minister for Indigenous Australians, Ken Wyatt, over the shock defunding o... Read more
Newstart recipients are not only more likely to suffer ill health than other Australians but then struggle to get the treatment they need, according to the Consumers Health Forum of Australi... Read more
“My generation are staring down the barrel of a climate crisis… We are the generation which will live with the results of your inaction, your craven political cowardice and your... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: They have been labelled a “triumph of greed and political cowardice” and an “obliterating self-interest” with impacts that will be felt for g... Read more
Australia’s peak body for rural, regional and remote health, the National Rural Health Alliance, has appointed rural clinician Dr Gabrielle O’Kane as its new Chief Executive Officer, to succ... Read more
The new Leader of the Opposition, Anthony Albanese, has made minor changes only to the shadow ministry that lost the recent election. Shorten to NDIS One big shift is the appointment of Bill... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: Many reflections about the role of personalities, politics and policies are being drawn from the recent federal election results, but some underlying issues around m... Read more
The re-election of Scott Morrison’s conservative Liberal-National government has sparked a “human crisis” in Australia’s offshore immigration detention, with a surge... Read more
Ken Wyatt’s historic appointment as Australia’s first Aboriginal Cabinet minister and first Indigenous person to be Minister for Indigenous Australians has been widely acclaimed.... Read more
