Croakey is introducing a new feature: reports from each week’s @WePublicHealth guest tweeter will be published here at the homepage. In the past these summaries were published at the @... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: In recent days, Federal and State Governments have issued various media statements on the bushfire crisis and health, including about the deployment of Australian Me... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: The ongoing bushfire emergency that has devastated huge parts of the country was on Monday continuing to threaten communities in New South Wales, with the NSW Rural... Read more
In this latest edition of The Health Wrap, Associate Professor Lesley Russell looks at the intangible costs (especially mental health costs) of bush fires. She discusses how the drought and... Read more
Queensland emergency physician Dr Marianne Cannon was an intern in Victoria during the tragic 1983 Ash Wednesday bushfires, when 75 people were killed in south-eastern Australia. Those memor... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: Evidence tells us that lower-income and other disadvantaged groups (and nations) contribute least to causing climate change but are likely to be most negatively affe... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: “Like nothing we’ve ever seen before.” “It’s just not within people’s imagination”. These are some of the reactions we’ve heard from senior and former senior Austral... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: This story originally appeared in The Guardian. It is republished here as part of Croakey‘s partnership with Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of mo... Read more
Having a basic understanding of current research about how memory works will help health and legal practitioners to better understand and support the many people who experience traumatic mem... Read more
The National Mental Health Commission launched the Equally Well initiative in Australia in 2017 to improve the quality of life of people living with mental illness by providing equal access... Read more
