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ICYMI: award-winners, important consultations, media matters – and it’s 90 seconds til midnight…

Melissa Sweet
Melissa Sweet
Thursday, January 26, 2023

ICYMI, #CroakeyREAD, Digital platforms, Indigenous health, Lowitja Institute, Disabilities, Global health, Health reform, Rural and remote health, Safety and quality of healthcare and aged care, Media-related issues, Public interest journalism

As tributes pour in for Professor Tom Calma AO, Senior Australian of the Year, our column this week highlights a stack of inquiries and consultations that will be of interest to many Croakey readers, touching on digital platforms, dementia care and First Nations digital inclusion.

We also put the spotlight on media matters, women in science, health reform, disability rights and global health – as well as details of upcoming events and conferences.

Congratulations!

See the Australia Day Honours list here. ABC broadcaster Dr Norman Swan is among those recognised on the COVID-19 honour roll.

Consultations to note

Media matters

Read: How a newspaper and a museum partnered to create a project on the Dutch colonial past Read: TV weather presenters on the hell and horror of the climate crisis Read: ‘Fox News in Spanish’: Inside an upstart media company’s big plans to impact the 2024 electionRead: The most dangerous place to be a journalist is not an active war zone but Latin America

#CroakeyREAD

Read: The Internet Transition

Global health

Read the article about Indigenous people in Brazil Read: Women scientists at famed oceanography institute have half the lab space of men

Disability rights

Health reform

Read the Twitter thread by Professor Trisha Greenhalgh on primary healthcare, including its core role in social justice.Read about the new special interest group at the Royal Australian College of GPs with a focus on addressing poverty and inequities. Co-founded by Dr Liz Sturgiss and Dr Tim Senior.

Events

Jobs

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ICYMI: award-winners, important consultations, media matters – and it’s 90 seconds til midnight…

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