Dr Melissa Stoneham writes: First we had FIFO (fly in fly out), then along came DIDO (drive in, drive out) and now we have DODOs. The term DODO, which stands for driver only, driver owned ca... Read more
Evidence-based workshop for journalists – May 2 – Gold Coast Ray Moynihan, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Research in Evidence-Based Practice at Bond University, writes: A more effective... Read more
(This post was updated on 22 Feb with a response from Professor Amanda Lee, chair of the Dietary Guidelines Working Committee). As previously reported at Croakey, the long-awaited Australian... Read more
The Australian National Preventive Health Agency (aka Promoting a Healthy Australia) is responsible for delivering the Commonwealth Government’s National Tobacco Campaign. In the article bel... Read more
It’s taken nearly four years, reviews of about 55,000 research publications, and endless meetings, consultations and negotiations. (Plenty of blood, sweat and tears, in other words.) Today t... Read more
The Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance NT (AMSANT) recently called for a minimum floor price on alcohol. In the UK, the conservative Prime Minister David Cameron is supporting such a polic... Read more
The Parliamentary Library has recently published analyses about the increase in private health insurance premiums, the National Disability Insurance Scheme legislation, and food labelling. T... Read more
In her recent Parliamentary statement on Closing the Gap, the Prime Minister raised concerns about the winding back of alcohol control policies in the NT and Queensland. She said alcohol-rel... Read more
At the National Press Club today, there was explicit acknowledgement of the power of the five-year-old Prime Ministerial apology in improving the health and wellbeing of Indigenous people. T... Read more
In one of the more hopeful developments of late for public health, the Social Determinants of Health Alliance was formally launched in Canberra last week. The Alliance is “a collaboration of... Read more
