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Introduction by Croakey: The federal government has faced stern criticism on its hard hat-heavy COVI... 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
Some years ago, I interviewed a nurse practitioner working in a metropolitan hospital who described how she had good support from the medical colleagues with whom she worked – but had also suffe... Read more
How does Australian TV cover the health issues of developing countries? And why does this matter? Read on… Michelle Imison writes: Despite rumours about the demise of traditional media, TV news... Read more
Victorians will be voting on Saturday. It’s well past time for some serious conversations about how health spending is being divvied up, suggests Trevor Carr, chief executive officer of The Vict... Read more
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