The upcoming Federal Budget, delivered in the context of a health and economic crisis, provides both challenges and opportunities for health. While spending is expected to be constrained ove... Read more
Bardi researcher Dr Michael Doyle and PhD candidate Teagan Weatherall, a Kamilaroi and Anaiwan woman, will present on Thursday (3 September) in the latest webinar of the 2020 Symposium Serie... Read more
Croakey readers who would like to engage with an opportunity for improving the Australian media landscape are strongly encouraged to make a submission to this consultation by the Australian... Read more
While people living in rural and remote parts of Australia have higher rates of heart disease, hospitalisations and poorer access to primary health care services than those in metropolitan a... Read more
With the Northern Territory election only days away, leading Aboriginal health, public health, and other community groups have released an election briefing paper calling for urgent action o... Read more
Voting centres opened this week in the lead up to the Northern Territory election on 22 August. Climate change is the critical health issue confronting voters, though the pandemic is diverti... Read more
Recently Health Minister Greg Hunt announced that telehealth would be extended but that, eligibility would be wound back to provide access in most cases only when providers “have an existing... Read more
Marie McInerney writes: Hundreds of leading public health, nursing, midwifery and medical experts and organisations have signed an open letter urging the Federal Government to modify new res... Read more
Senior doctors from the Albury Wodonga border region warned last weekend that border restrictions put in place by the New South Wales Government to prevent a spread of Victoria’s coron... Read more
Tributes were paid widely across the health sector on Monday to Dr Harry Nespolon, the high profile Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) President, who died overnight, a... Read more
