Victoria’s Chief Health Officer Professor Brett Sutton has called on health leaders to be “open to new data and new science” in the fight against COVID-19 and other looming existential threa... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: A significant new report — COVID-19: Make it the last pandemic — has blamed a “toxic cocktail” of failures, errors and inequalities that have turned the... Read more
Croakey readers can download the Department of Health Budget Briefing Pack here. This post wraps reaction to the Federal Budget from the Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association, Publ... Read more
As recently reported at Croakey, some wide-ranging suggestions for promoting health equity are proposed in a new publication from The Medical Journal of Australia, sponsored by VicHealth, ti... Read more
In an uncertain world, at least one thing is quite certain. When it comes to Federal Budget time, we will hear plenty about the “winners” and “losers”. While helpful for headline writers, th... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: Sixty health and medical organisations – including Indigenous health groups, service providers, the Australasian College of Health Service Management, the HESTA Supe... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: “If the health system doesn’t improve, I’d say you’re gone at the next election,” was the stark message to the Tasmanian Liberal Party from ABC news presenter Guy St... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: Croakey has published a series of articles on calls to strengthen the Federal Government’s draft National Preventive Health Strategy. In the post below, Dietitians A... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: Tasmanians go to the polls this Saturday, 1 May, with media predicting the result will go down to the wire through Tasmania’s Hare-Clark proportional electoral syste... Read more
Fossil fuel subsidies cost Australians $10.3 billion in 2020-21 with one Commonwealth tax break alone ($7.84 billion) exceeding the $7.82 billion spent on the Australian Army, according to r... Read more
