Recently Marie McInerney interviewed Rob Moodie for VCOSS providing insight into what works in public health campaigns. The words “persistence, persistence, persistence” will str... Read more
Extreme weather events have made their presence felt in Australia over the last few years and are expected to become more frequent. Whether it is extreme heat, record flooding or tropical st... Read more
Emeritus Professor David Shearman writes: Anti-coal protester Jonathan Moylan has said the main reason for his ANZ sharemarket hoax was his concern about the health impacts of coal mining at... Read more
This week Michelle Culhane-Hughes, a Melbourne-based health policy consultant, is having a trial run in the Croakey chair. To tell you a bit about Michelle: Michelle’s fifteen year car... Read more
This post is announcing a new development at Croakey: the launch of a service to provide news reports from public health and health policy conferences. I am delighted that the National Rural... Read more
Croakey readers are welcome to sign up for (rather irregular) summaries of posts. If you’d like to join the mailing list, please send your email or leave it below. Here is the latest compila... Read more
Climate change and other health-related issues feature prominently in the World Economic Forum’s new report, Global Risks 2013, which is based on a survey, conducted last September, of over... Read more
The effects of the bushfires now causing so much trauma in south-eastern Australia will be felt for years to come. They will be felt by so many people, so many communities, and in so many wa... Read more
Dr Mark Bahnisch writes: The health care year has begun with a dollop of controversy over the introduction to Australia of ‘patient advocate’ services, defended against AMA criticisms by Cla... Read more
A new service providing professional advocacy services for health care consumers has attracted a lot of interest from the health sector and the media – along with some criticism. Today Croak... Read more
