In this article, one of a series on health and other issues being published at The Conversation in the leadup to the May 18 federal election, Jim Gillespie, Deputy Director, Menzies Centre f... Read more
Ahead of the tabling to Parliament today by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull of the 2018 Closing the Gap report, the Close the Gap Campaign – led by more than 40 Aboriginal and Torres Strait... Read more
Despite promising to keep Medicare Locals (it’s quite breathtaking to watch the commitment now), the Abbott Government abolished the fledgling organisations soon after it took office.... Read more
When it comes to disability policy in Australia, all eyes are on the National Disability Insurance Scheme. But, as El Gibbs reveals in her first #CripCroakey post below, the success of the N... Read more
Doctors and other health groups across Australia have stepped up the pressure on Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to turn back Australia’s harsh asylum seeker policies – though he... Read more
Professor of Political Science and Age columnist Dr Sally Young has described Tony Abbott’s regime as the “worst government in history” and criticised the former PM for being “ineffective, u... Read more
Prime Minister Tony Abbott put an end this week to hopes for marriage equality this year in Australia, with the decision by the Coalition party room to not allow a conscience vote on the iss... 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
#IHMayDay15 took over Twitter on May 29 with a day of action and listening on the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. It ran for more than 15 hours, was tre... Read more
Australia’s peak health professional bodies have voiced collective concern about the “appalling secrecy provisions” in the Australian Border Force Act 2015 which threaten jail fo... Read more
