A new threat to global security is emerging through “vaccine diplomacy”, with some countries using their supplies to strengthen regional ties and enhance their own power and global status, a... Read more
Calls in Australia and globally for governments to enact austerity policies to claw back their outlays on COVID-19 responses should cause deep concern, according to a recent letter to The Me... Read more
As this earlier article at Croakey reported, the Victorian Government’s recent return of two billion litres of water to the Gunaikurnai Land and Waters Aboriginal Corporation (GLaWAC)... Read more
The Health Wrap by Associate Professor Lesley Russell looks this fortnight at how COVID-19 has led to better approaches for homelessness and poverty, the importance of civic trust, the retur... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: Liberal backbencher and prolific Facebook poster Craig Kelly continues to publish misinformation about public health issues, including COVID-19 and climate change, a... Read more
Out of the Box is a new column at Croakey from emergency medicine specialist Dr Simon Judkins that will explore climate-related issues through a health lens. In his first column, Judkins ref... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: Joe Biden’s executive actions to address the climate emergency have already marked him as the most ambitious president in US history to tackle global warming. Biden... Read more
Much of the media coverage of Labor’s reshuffle of two critical shadow portfolios for health has tended to focus on the political dynamics in play, including questions about the Federal Oppo... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: Last month the Australian Indigenous Doctors’ Association (AIDA) published a policy statement declaring that climate change is a “health emergency which threat... Read more
The Climate Council’s new extreme weather report, Hitting Home: The compounding costs of climate inaction, finds that 2019-20 was a period of unprecedented fire events, killer heat, powerful... Read more
