Marie McInerney writes: Pandemic lockdowns have highlighted deep inequities in the ways our cities are built and used, and shown the urgent need for governments to direct stimulus funds into... Read more
Last week at Croakey’s rotational Twitter account @WePublicHealth, Dr Jason Thompson, a Senior Research Fellow at the Melbourne School of Design and Transport, Health and Urban Design (THUD)... Read more
Australian children are amongst the most ‘chauffeured’ in the world but are we doing more harm than good by driving our children to and from school instead of supporting them to walk, ride o... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: Debate over the rate and pace of Australia’s immigration program continues, fueled once more by former Prime Minister Tony Abbott in a speech last month to the Sydne... Read more
The Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) last week released a Discussion Paper ahead of a second round of stakeholder consultations on its inquiry, ordered last year by Attorney General B... Read more
A 2011 survey, conducted by The National Heart Foundation and the Cycling Promotion Fund, found that 60% of respondents had access to a bicycle, but most rarely used it. Only 17.3% bike owne... Read more
The rapid growth in the fly-in fly-out (FIFO) and drive-in drive-out (DIDO) workforce in Australia’s rural and remote areas has been accompanied by claims that FIFO/DIDO workers, parti... Read more
Medical groups are calling on the NT Government to abandon its trial of open speed on the Stuart Highway, which is due to start tomorrow. Dr Christine Connors, Chair of The Royal Australasia... Read more
Marilyn Johnson writes: Images that promote cycling in regional Victoria are often beautiful and enticing: smiling, happy people ride along scenic bike paths that meander through wide, open... Read more
Thanks to Fron Jackson-Webb for providing this latest wrap of reading from The Conversation (http://theconversation.edu.au/). It includes articles about universities teaching complementary m... Read more
