The upcoming Federal Budget, delivered in the context of a health and economic crisis, provides both challenges and opportunities for health. While spending is expected to be constrained ove... Read more
Our experience with COVID-19 is highlighting the urgent need to do much more to prevent chronic diseases, according to Emma Lonsdale, Executive Officer, Australian Chronic Disease Prevention... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: Australia is now in the worst recession since the Great Depression of the early 1930s, with more than one million Australians out of work and the Government foreshad... Read more
In The Health Wrap, Associate Professor Lesley Russell provides an update on coronavirus news and developments, reports on important safety and quality news for aged care and healthcare, and... Read more
Every week, a different guest tweeter takes charge of Croakey’s rotated, curated Twitter account, @WePublicHealth, and uses the account to cover specific health issues or events. Big thanks... Read more
The climate crisis is identified as one of the urgent global health challenges for the next decade on a list released by the World Health Organization (WHO) this week. Despite many such warn... Read more
Croakey is closed for summer holidays and will resume publishing in the week of 13 January 2020. In the meantime, we are re-publishing some of our most widely read articles from 2019. This a... Read more
In this latest edition of The Health Wrap, Associate Professor Lesley Russell reviews the latest news in aged care, digs into Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health workforce issues, s... Read more
Representation matters. As a series of Croakey articles about the new National Preventive Health Strategy has made clear, it is not only who is at the table that matters, but the topics that... Read more
(This post was updated on 30 September with comments from the Australian Health Promotion Association and more tweets.) Health Minister Greg Hunt has responded to criticism that nurses were... Read more
