In September, the Queensland Government suggested that the Federal Government and the emerging Medicare Locals network should step in to fill the gaps caused by its health spending cuts. SA... Read more
Ex-Greens MLA in the ACT, Amanda Bresnan outlines why Australia is overdue for a junk food ad ban and what it will take to achieve this…. Banning junk food advertising on television to... Read more
The Parliamentary Library has recently published a number of posts on their blog, FlagPost, that might be of interest to Croakey readers. Short extracts and hyperlinks have been included bel... Read more
Dr Mark Ragg offers a five point plan for reducing the current high rate of smoking among people with mental illnesses. The first report card of the National Mental Health Commission makes f... Read more
Just in case you are one of the few people on the planet yet to catch the jingle of the Dumb Ways to Die campaign, it’s a public safety initiative recently launched by Metro Trains in Melbou... Read more
The relationship between media coverage and Indigenous policy making has been investigated in a comprehensive research project, whose findings were reported at a recent symposium at the Univ... Read more
How might Medicare Locals help address some of the wider determinants affecting the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people? In the article below, Indigenous health policy ana... Read more
The National Mental Health Commission today released its first national report card on mental health and suicide prevention. It is a comprehensive and well written document that you can find... Read more
A new survey gives some handy signposts as to how our discussions about health and wellbeing might be usefully broadened. The VicHealth Indicators Survey, a triennial survey of about 25,000... Read more
If Australia really wants to get serious about making health part of all policies, then we could look to the example that has been set in Thailand. That was one of the messages delivered to... Read more
