Introduction by Croakey: New South Wales Mental Health Commissioner Catherine Lourey sounded an important, and tragically prescient warning last month, launching the Living Well in Focus 202... Read more
Organisations across the health sector, and indeed more widely, are under great pressure to adapt to COVID-19 disruption, for the short and longer term. At times like these, effective govern... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: The many failures of our mental health system have been extensively documented by the recent Royal Commission into Victoria’s mental health system and the Productivi... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: The Federal Opposition stepped up its push against the so-called privatisation of Australia’s Aged Care Assessment Teams (ACAT) this week, calling on the Morri... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: The Productivity Commission this week begins a series of hearings across Australia, seeking responses to its draft report of its inquiry into mental health released... Read more
(This post was updated on 30 September with comments from the Australian Health Promotion Association and more tweets.) Health Minister Greg Hunt has responded to criticism that nurses were... Read more
Aboriginal community controlled health services have many advantages, including their power to advocate and shame governments into action, according to Donna Ah Chee, CEO of the Central Aust... Read more
Last week’s #CroakeyGO #NavigatingHealth event attracted nearly 100 people to join us in navigating some of the pathways (and hearing about many of the mazes) in mental health. Sponsored by... Read more
When a sizeable crowd gathered to walk and talk about mental health in Melbourne, participants shared a real life exercise in the importance of social connections for health and wellbeing. T... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: The Victorian mental health system is highly fragmented, with an inefficient patchwork of programs and services resulting from siloed funding arrangements between Co... Read more
