A study comparing outcomes for public and private hospital births was published in the Medical Journal of Australia in February. It attracted dramatic headlines. “Public hospital births doub... Read more
The Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association is circulating this press release as part of its regular news update. The release quotes “a recent study by University of Westminste... Read more
John Greatorex, a Darwin-based academic who has previously worked as a teacher in north-east Arnhem Land for 30 years, has written the following detailed response to the Inside Story article... Read more
This spoof of the pharma industry and the medicalisation of daily life is promoting a new drug, Despondex, as a "huge step forward in the battle against exhuberance". Read more
Alice Springs physician Dr Rob Roseby has commented on the Inside Story article: “You describe elements of institutional racism, but as an industry the media is not alone in this respe... Read more
Continuing on from earlier posts, here are some more suggestions re stories in Aboriginal health that deserve reporting. Anthropologist Tess Lea, the Director of the School for Social and P... Read more
More food for thought on the issue of how the media covers Aboriginal health and related issues…Kerry Klimm, director of kinnected – an Indigenous media/communication consultanc... Read more
Following on from earlier posts about this Inside Story article on media reporting of Aboriginal health, here are some reflections from Miranda Harman, lecturer in journalism at the Universi... Read more
Following on from previous posts, Professor Kerin O’Dea, director of the Sansom Institute at the University of SA, has some more story tips: • We need much more sophisticated analysis... Read more
Following on from earlier posts about the Inside Story article on reporting of Aboriginal health, journalist Jeff McMullen comments: “In Canberra last night (while giving a short speec... Read more
