Reducing the COVID-19 risk to community members, especially vulnerable Elders and people with multiple health issues, was a big focus through the pandemic for the Walgett Aboriginal Medical... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: Croakey has published a series of articles on calls to strengthen the Federal Government’s draft National Preventive Health Strategy. In the post below, Dietitians A... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: Tasmanians go to the polls this Saturday, 1 May, with media predicting the result will go down to the wire through Tasmania’s Hare-Clark proportional electoral syste... Read more
One of the few preventive health initiatives on the table so far in Tasmania’s 1 May election, says Tasmanian public health researcher and consultant Miriam Vandenberg, is a promise from Lab... Read more
As Western Australia heads to a state election on 13 March, a local government in a regional area is showing leadership in public health, banning outdoor advertising for unhealthy products i... Read more
Marie McInerney writes: A new code of practice to address online misinformation and disinformation, developed for and by the digital tech industry, has been slammed by critics as falling way... Read more
Wide-ranging systemic and structural changes are needed to ensure food and economic security for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, according to University of Queensland academics... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: Last month the Australian Indigenous Doctors’ Association (AIDA) published a policy statement declaring that climate change is a “health emergency which threat... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: Almost 70 percent of Australians are living with overweight or obesity, say experts who are calling for greater action on this looming public health crisis. While Au... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: As the nation’s supermarket shelves were stripped of toilet paper in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, longstanding concerns about the high prices of food and... Read more
