New modelling finds investing in childcare and aged care almost pays for itself
Introduction by Croakey: The federal government has faced stern criticism on its hard hat-heavy COVI... Read more
A wealth of information about the structures, programs and processes of the Department of Health and Ageing has been released in response to FOI requests for the department’s brief to the incoming gov... Read more
Plans are afoot to build one of the world’s largest wind farms in Alberta, Canada. What might this mean for the health and wellbeing of local residents? An investigation of this very issue has r... Read more
As the previous post records, the Public Health Association of Australia has called on the Federal Government to include broader representation on a group that has been appointed to advise on the deve... Read more
Governments have many arms and often they are working at cross-purposes. Food policy has a long history of arm-wrestling between not only the various sectors but also the government agencies involved.... Read more
How to respond to the national health reform agenda is one of the pressing questions before the new Victorian Government. Following on from a previous Croakey post giving some free health advice to Te... Read more
Thanks to the Food Chain Intelligence consultancy for allowing Croakey to cross-post this article. It raises some interesting issues about food safety, in the light of inquiries by the Food and Drug A... Read more
What will the change of government in Victoria mean for national health reform? No doubt it’s a question plenty are pondering. I’ve asked several Croakey contributors for how they would ad... Read more
KFC has been running a Twitter competition for high school students in the US, in which contestants are asked to tweet why they deserve a $20,000 KFC scholarship to go to college. Apparently, KFC has... Read more
Minister Nicola Roxon’s two-day e-health summit starts in Melbourne today and you can watch the webcast here. Some background about who is speaking etc can be found in this report from The Austr... Read more
The Federal Government recently released its response to the Senate committee’s report, The Hidden Toll: Suicide In Australia. The Government’s response to each of the report’s recommendations i... Read more
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