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
Climate change, its antecedents and sequelae have been nominated as the globe’s top threat in 2019 by both the World Health Organisation and the World Economic Forum, with the latter w... Read more
The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) this week released its Annual Climate Statement, showing 2018 was Australia’s third hottest year on record, while rainfall totals were the lowest since... Read more
The newly appointed Victorian Health Minister, Jenny Mikakos, has inherited an ambitious agenda after the Labor Party’s success at last week’s state election. As stated in its pre-election p... Read more
On Friday the Morrison Government announced it would remove $3.9 billion from a Building Australia future fund into a drought future fund. In the article below, a senior psychiatrist, Profes... Read more
*Updated 10 October, with confirmation from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) that it has been “forced to terminate its provision of mental health services” on Nauru and all interna... Read more
Croakey intro: Leading medical groups have added to calls urging the Australian Government to bring an Afghan refugee with advanced lung cancer from Nauru to Australia for palliative care. N... Read more
