Please download, read and share this report compiling our coverage of the National Rural Health Conference held earlier this year in nipaluna/Hobart. Croakey’s managing editor Melissa Sweet... 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
Melissa Sweet writes: Ahead of the federal election, one of the world’s leaders in tackling health inequalities has warned against top-down approaches to addressing poverty and related healt... Read more
Delegates at the 15th National Rural Health Conference put forward more than 200 recommendations, with priorities including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander self-determination, planeta... Read more
The Federal Government has executed a post-Budget backflip to include Newstart recipients in a one-off payment towards power bills for welfare recipients. However, the Government failed agai... Read more
Melissa Sweet writes: Labor has re-committed to implementing a national strategy on climate change and health, following concerns raised yesterday by leading health experts about the omissio... Read more
Melissa Sweet writes: Rural health advocates have called for a National Sustainable Development Unit to be established to work across government sectors and jurisdictions in addressing clima... Read more
Wide-ranging recommendations to address health inequalities were presented to the National Rural Health Conference in nipaluna/Hobart yesterday. Melissa Sweet is covering the #ruralhealthcon... Read more
The 15th National Rural Health Conference taking place in nipaluna/Hobart this week has had a strong focus on planetary health, with calls for health professionals to engage with this sustai... Read more
Hundreds of rural health advocates have been urged to tweet loudly from the 15th National Rural Health Conference to federal political party leaders and Health Ministers and Shadows to put t... Read more
