Pathology and radiology companies receive significant public funding and make sizeable profits while often paying relatively little tax, according to health policy analyst Professor Peter Br... Read more
The Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (VACCHO) has urged Labor and the Independents to block some of the health cuts announced in the Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal... Read more
Clearly the Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook (MYEFO) is not primarily focused on trying to improve the nation’s health or healthcare. If it was, it would look quite different to the docu... Read more
In a keynote speech to the Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care national conference in Perth last week, Marninwarntikura Fitzroy Women’s Resource Centre leader Ju... Read more
Croakey is excited to be working with El Gibbs, who is today launching a crowd-funding campaign – #cripcroakey – to fund a series of articles on disability and health. El brings great... Read more
‘Frankly, if we can have a conversation rather than a scare campaign, our country will be so much better off,’ said Prime Minister Tony Abbott as the 40th Council of Australian G... Read more
Momentum has been growing ahead of today’s meeting of State Premiers and Prime Minister Tony Abbott for increasing the goods and services tax from 10 per cent to 15 per cent, in large... Read more
As New South Wales and South Australia launch discussions on the merits of lifting the rate of the GST from 10 to 15 per cent “in order to pay for the increasing cost of healthcare... Read more
Many thanks to Dr Lesley Russell for this insightful analysis of the federal health budget. Dr Russell writes: Every year since 2007 I have done a detailed analysis of the health provisions... Read more
The health gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians is Australia’s most urgent and serious health challenge. Despite this fact, Indigenous issues barely rated a mention in the... Read more
