The experiences of people with hearing conditions will be profiled in a new report to be launched on 5 March, to mark the close of Hearing Awareness Week. The HearMe report identifies ten pr... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous community and health leaders have called on Reconciliation Australia to revoke its endorsement of Woolworths... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: Amid the pandemic and widespread political upheaval, a record number of journalists were imprisoned worldwide in 2020, and the number singled out for murder in repri... Read more
In a timely wrap, public health researcher Alison Barrett presents the arguments for a national approach to hotel quarantine, sounds the alarm on misinformation, and shares some useful commu... Read more
Leading health and community organisations have slammed the Federal Government’s “heartless betrayal” of people relying on JobSeeker after it announced a permanent lift in the rate of just $... Read more
As Guardian Australia reported last month, the World Health Organization selected Professor Dominic Dwyer, Director of Public Health Pathology at New South Wales Health Pathology in Sydney,... Read more
Marie McInerney writes: Health Minister Greg Hunt this week famously declared “the eagle has landed”, as the first doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine touched down on Monday. He... Read more
Calls in Australia and globally for governments to enact austerity policies to claw back their outlays on COVID-19 responses should cause deep concern, according to a recent letter to The Me... Read more
Self-regulation by corporations such as Facebook and Google will not address the worrying health threat of disinformation, a health leader has warned. Alison Verhoeven, CEO of the Australian... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: A NSW investigation into the casino operations of Crown Resorts Ltd, by former NSW Supreme Court judge Patricia Bergin, provides an important resource for public hea... Read more
