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
Hotel quarantine, the COVID-19 vaccine and mental health were all on the agenda when the Department of Health faced the Senate Community Affairs Committee at the estimates hearings in Canber... Read more
Marie McInerney writes Victoria on Wednesday reported just three new cases of COVID-19, down from its daily peak of 725 cases in early August — an achievement that is being hailed by many e... Read more
At the Australian Medical Association’s National Conference on 1 August, members elected a new President, Dr Omar Khorshid, and Vice President, Dr Chris Moy. The election follows the conclus... Read more
In the latest edition of The Health Wrap, Dr Lesley Russell unpicks some of the complexities around coronavirus vaccine development and uptake, as well as digging into aged care spending que... Read more
In her latest edition of The Health Wrap, Dr Lesley Russell reports on the latest developments in coronavirus research, the pandemic’s implications for people with HIV/AIDS and wider g... Read more
In her latest edition of The Health Wrap, Dr Lesley Russell looks at the pandemic’s intersections with wider determinants of health inequity, the latest news in vaccine development, a... Read more
Private health insurers appear set to profit from the COVID-19 crisis, with a new report suggesting they will collectively reap a windfall of between $3.5 billion and $5.5 billion over the n... Read more
Mark Ragg writes: The health sector has reacted with horror to the National Cabinet’s backdown on plans to suspend elective surgery in public and private hospitals at short notice. On the mo... Read more
Never mind the sports rorts affair, what about the politicisation of wider health spending? This investigation by Jennifer Doggett identifies many areas across the health portfolio where lar... Read more
