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. Last week,... Read more
Croakey is closed for summer holidays and will resume publishing in the week of 18 January 2021. In the meantime, we are re-publishing some of our top articles from 2020. This article was fi... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: “They keep on telling me there is nothing called ‘white privilege’ — give me a break. I don’t see any white people going into a store on Oxford Street and being foll... Read more
Peter McInnes writes: Prime Minister Scott Morrison loves to watch his beloved Rugby League team the Sharks play. In a pandemic, that can be controversial. As a skilful politician he must be... Read more
Last week, @WePublicHealth took a left turn and looked at women’s cricket. Here’s Mark Ragg’s summary of his week at the helm. Background The baggy green belonged to Christina Matthews, form... 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
Introduction by Croakey: Professor Brendan Murphy, currently the Australian Government’s Chief Medical Officer, will be the new Secretary of the Department of Health, following the retiremen... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: The overwhelming majority of AFL clubs were sponsored by at least one company that promoted junk food, alcohol or gambling products during the 2019 AFL season, a rev... Read more
There are few summer pastimes more Australian than sitting down to watch the sport, but are our kids absorbing more than the scores? The Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education, FARE... Read more
The structural drivers of poor health and wellbeing, including gender inequality, racism, discrimination, and the vested interests of the food and gambling industries, were centre-stage at t... Read more
