VicHealth has released new research looking into how the alcohol industry uses social media influencers to sell their products to impressionable young people and how often these partnership... Read more
A new strategy to support the media and other stakeholders to communicate safely, respectfully and responsibly about alcohol and other drugs has been developed by Mindframe. This strategy in... Read more
About 1,000 rural health leaders are gathering in nipaluna/Hobart this week for the 15th National Rural Health Conference. The conference is perfectly timed to put the spotlight on critical... Read more
An Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) inquiry into digital platforms (as previously covered at Croakey) is an opportunity to tackle significant public health concerns, acc... Read more
There are few summer pastimes more Australian than sitting down to watch the sport, but are our kids absorbing more than the scores? The Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education, FARE... Read more
Deakin University health economists have evaluated the economic credentials of a range of policies for addressing obesity to discern the most cost-effective, affordable and implementable opt... 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
In an era of billboard-creep, where our most iconic landmarks appear to be for sale to the highest bidder, even the sky may not be the limit for lobby groups. And as we see multinational cor... Read more
The book: Addicted?: How Addiction Affects Every One of Us and What We Can Do About It. Matt Noffs with Kieran Palmer. Sydney: HarperCollins – AU (2018). The reviewer: Dr Christopher Wurm is... Read more
It’s a familiar concept that the commercial drivers in life, and consumerism in particular, have a largely unhealthy impact on our lives. But those striving to control tobacco, and tho... Read more
