Yesterday the Aged Care Royal Commissioners, the Honourable Tony Pagone QC and Lynelle Briggs AO, released a special report on the COVID-19 pandemic in aged care. The report identifies four... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: Prime Minister Scott Morrison is suggesting that next week’s Federal Budget will be one of the most important budgets since the Second World War. “We find ourselves... Read more
How do presidential contenders Donald Trump and Joe Biden stack up when it comes to COVID-19? How will the pandemic continue to affect us, even if a vaccine is developed? And how are bilbies... Read more
Yesterday Croakey highlighted some of the key asks from health stakeholder groups for the upcoming Federal Budget. The areas covered were big picture reform, rural health, Aboriginal and Tor... Read more
In the first several months of the pandemic, Australian governments took generally swift and decisive action to minimise the deaths and suffering caused by the novel coronavirus. What are th... Read more
The upcoming Federal Budget, delivered in the context of a health and economic crisis, provides both challenges and opportunities for health. While spending is expected to be constrained ove... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: On top of a call earlier this week for more than $US90 billion to protect the world’s poorest nations during and after the coronavirus pandemic, the United Nat... Read more
Marie McInerney writes: **Updated with more responses** Evidence about the higher risks of coronavirus transmission among crowds and indoors have guided the development of a three stage “roa... Read more
In her latest edition of The Health Wrap, written from self-quarantine, Dr Lesley Russell aims not to cover the novel coronavirus pandemic in detail, given its saturation coverage elsewhere,... Read more
In the latest Health Wrap, Dr Lesley Russell takes a deep dive into whether the Federal Government is meeting its promise to provide more affordable medicines, seeking to get behind the payw... Read more
