About Croakey’s funding sources

Croakey has a mixed revenue stream that includes support from members of our funding consortium. There are four tiers of funding consortia:-

Health Equity Champion
Health Equity Star
Health Equity Heart, and
Health Equity Supporter

The details of each tier can be found here and a list of current consortium members is outlined below.

Social journalism activities, including the Croakey Conference News Service and #CroakeyGO events, also provide funding.

We also generate funds for our public interest journalism activities from our commercial arm: Croakey Professional Services, which provides consultancy and training services. We also apply for grants from various bodies to support public interest journalism activities.

Probono

Thompson Geer Lawyers have taken Croakey to the next phase of our evolution.

In 2018, they established Croakey as an organisation and supported us through the establishment of Croakey as a Not-For-Profit entity.

Funding Consortium members

Health Equity Champion

Health Equity Star

Health Equity Hearts

Australian Health Promotion Association

Public Health Advocacy Institute of WA

Australian College of Health Service Management

Girra Maa Indigenous Health Discipline, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health, UTS

George Institute for Global Health

North Western Melbourne PHN

Cancer Council WA

School of Population and Global Health, University of Western Australia

Health Equity Supporters

Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education

Public Health Association of Australia

School of Population Health, University of NSW

VicHealth

Carers Australia

Grant sources

ACMA

The Judith Neilson Institute

Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation

The Oak Foundation

Previous consortium members

Palliative Care Australia

Centre for Health Policy, University of Melbourne

Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity, UNSW

McCusker Centre for Action on Alcohol and Youth

School of Public Health, University of Sydney

School of Public Health, University of New South Wales

College of Medicine & Public Health, Flinders University

School of Population & Global Health, University of Western Australia

School of Health Sciences, University of South Australia

Individual Donors

Julia Anaf

Fran Baum

Lynette Brodie

Maureen Chapman

Brigid Coombe

Sally Fitzpatrick

Gordon Gregory

Birdie Gurley

Holley Jones

Julie Leask

Peter Lindenmayer

Nicole MacKee

Charles Maskell-Knight

Kerry McCallum

Bernard McCormick

John Rogers

Lesley Russell

Penelope Smith

Jan Sweet

Dr Melissa Sweet

Alison Tomlin

David Vaile

Mitchell Ward

Tarun Weeramanthri

Jacob Wilson

Henry Woo

Professional Services Clients

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit, University of Queensland

Aboriginal Health & Medical Research Council of NSW

Australian Centre for Public and Population Health Research, University of Technology, Sydney

Equity Trustees

Centre for Research Excellence in the Social Determinants of Health Equity, Flinders University

Gandangara Local Aboriginal Land Council

Indigenous Allied Health Australia

School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of NSW

Sydney West Translational Cancer Research Centre

The Lowitja Institute

The Sydney Partnership for Health, Education, Research & Enterprise

UWA School of Indigenous Studies

Conference News Service Clients

Australasian College for Emergency Medicine

Australian College of Nursing

Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency

Australian Health Promotion Association

Australian Primary Health Care Nurses Association

Centre for Aboriginal Health, NSW Ministry of Health

Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity, University of NSW

Choosing Wisely Australia

Community Mental Health Australia

Consumers Health Forum of Australia

Equally Well

Lowitja Institute

Mental Health Victoria

National Rural Health Alliance

Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists

Safer Care Victoria

The Royal Women’s Hospital, Melbourne

Victorian Health Promotion Foundation

Victorian Mental Illness Awareness Council

CroakeyGo

Cohealth sponsored #CroakeyGO #VicVotes

NWMPHN sponsored #CroakeyGO #NavigatingHealth

IPC Health sponsored #CroakeyGO #HeatwaveHealth

A heartfelt thankyou to all of our generous sponsors, funders and individuals who make our work possible.

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Croakey has a mixed revenue stream that includes support from members of our funding consortium. There are four tiers of funding consortia:-

Health Equity Champion
Health Equity Star
Health Equity Heart, and
Health Equity Supporter

The details of each tier can be found here and a list of current consortium members can be found here.

If you would like to be part of one of the Consortia, please contact us at: laurell@croakey.org.

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What people say about Croakey

Croakey allows for independent voices to resonate in and through virtual time and space. Real people, real voices, real issues with independent oomph – that’s Croakey. Time and again I go to Croakey to understand the politics behind public health because Croakey sorts the wheat from the chaff. There is just one mob of journos to trust with my voice, and it’s the Croakey mob. In the surreal and disconnected world of academia I go to Croakey to get grounded in the real issues.

Dr Mark Lock

Research Fellow, The University of Newcastle

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Croakey is a must read for anyone who craves the public health stories that no one else reports. A truly independent and critical voice that both exposes health injustices and champions smart solutions to health inequalities.

Dr Becky Freeman

Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney

Croakey is now well established as compulsory reading for influencers and observers in health and medicine in Australia and internationally – and rightly so. As a blog, it gives voice to people who support or oppose government health and social policy. It allows people to express their views and opinions openly, passionately, and freely – from all perspectives. More importantly, Croakey provides a forum for new ideas and new thinking – based on experiences at the frontline of health service delivery – which we can only hope find their way into future health policy to provide better health services to the Australian community.

John Flannery

Health communications expert

It’s a must to stay connected with Croakey Health Media. They know all about what’s happening in Public Health, right up to the last minute!

Dr Janet Roden

New South Wales Nurses and Midwives' Association

Croakey has pioneered an unprecedented role in providing an open forum for the revelation and exchange of thinking on health in Australia. Thanks to the indefatigable Croakey team, we have a place where players from all corners of health can share ideas, news and commentary.

Mark Metherell

health journalist, CHF

So happy to be creating and coding for such a dedicated, professional and good-humored team.

Mitchell Ward

Artistic Director and web developer at Croakey Health Media

Croakey gives me the best independent and most relevant public health news and views.

Dr Mark Wenitong

Public Health Medical Advisor,  Apunipima Cape York Health Council  , Associate Professor (Adjunct)  School of Public Health,Tropical Medicine and Rehabilitation Sciences  James Cook University, Cairns.  

Croakey not only gives me up to date information on contemporary health issues, but allows me to send my health information across Australia in an instant. It is also the perfect vehicle for starting peoples’ movements, engaging with Indigenous peoples and our issues, and building a community that has at its basis a desire to make positive change happen. It is polite and political, informative and inspiring. Active engagement is what Croakey does – and I like it!

Professor Kerry Arabena

Public health leader

Croakey gives us our daily dose of independent thinking, discussion and debate on all things public health. The broad mix of contributors, topics and prolific tweets combine to make it a valuable and lively source of news and food for thought for all Australians.

Shauna Hurley 

Monash University

Croakey is an important part of the health landscape providing progressive, current and incisive commentary.

Professor Fran Baum

Professor of Public Health, Flinders University

The Oceanic Palliative Care Conference (21OPCC) is the leading conference in the Oceanic region for anyone who is interested in quality palliative care and end-of-life care, thought-leadership, information, and ideas. Contracting Croakey Media Services for September 2021, ensured PCA maximum media coverage to a wider audience across health, medical and social sectors. Croakey published in-depth news features previewing and promoting the conference, and Croakey journalists live Tweeted the conference across the conference and pre-conference events, contributing to our conference trending on the 9th of September 2021. Croakey also allowed PCA to manage the @WePublicHealth twitter account, which further helped us share the conference to a bigger audience. In total Croakey provided eight articles and an hour-long podcast post-event. Delegates noted the interaction with Croakey as a great asset to the event and it was a pleasure to work with such a committed, talented and diligent group of professionals. Thank you again for your work, and we hope to continue our relationship in years to come.

Kellie Sydlarczuk

National Events Coordinator, Palliative Care Australia

About Croakey’s funding sources

Probono

Funding Consortium members

Health Equity Champion

Health Equity Star

Health Equity Hearts

Health Equity Supporters

Grant sources

Previous consortium members

Individual Donors

Sponsored Editorial 2019

Professional Services Clients

Conference News Service Clients

CroakeyGo

Help support non-profit public interest journalism

Join one of our annual Funding Consortia

What people say about Croakey

Follow us on social media

Merchandise

Contacts

Projects

Testimonials

Donations

Help support non-profit public interest journalism

Join one of our annual Funding Consortia

What people say about Croakey

Follow us on social media