We’re now half way through the five-week 2019 election campaign and Labor is still setting the agenda on health and the social determinants of health. As was clear from Prime Minister... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: This Friday, 3 May, the grassroots Every Australian Counts campaign that fought for the introduction of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is leading a... Read more
Labor’s 2019 election promise to invest $2.4 billion in a Pensioner Dental Plan – giving up to three million older Australians access to free dental care – has been welcomed as... Read more
As predicted, health and healthcare are big issues in the first week of the federal election campaign, to the extent that online news outlet Crikey declared on Wednesday that “Labor’s... Read more
In this article, originally published at The Conversation, Stephen Duckett, Director of the Health Program at the Grattan Institute, looks at the claims, counter-claims and facts behind two... Read more
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
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
Labor leader Bill Shorten has described his ‘Cancer package’ as the most popular policy announcement he has ever made. The centrepiece of the package is the $2.3 billion (over four years) st... Read more
Like the Government’s budget, the Federal Opposition’s budget reply fails to address entrenched poverty and other challenges facing many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peo... Read more
After more than two years as Health Minister in a Government that has failed to tackle key public health issues such as climate change and obesity, Greg Hunt has committed to working more cl... Read more
