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Croakey is closed for summer holidays and will resume publishing in the week of 18 January 2021. In... Read more
Here are media statements on the budget from the Public Health Association, Consumers Health Forum and Doctors Reform Society… (Update May 11/13: have also added some more reaction to bottom of... Read more
You can read the announcements on regional spending (many of which pertain to rural health) in the Ministerial statement found here. Below is some preliminary reaction from leaders in rural and remote... Read more
Oral health has been the bridesmaid for so long. It’s been promised so many invitations to the party, but somehow the cheque is always in the mail (just to mix my metaphors completely). This sorry tal... Read more
At a quick glance, the Ministerial statement on Indigenous spending does not hold too many new announcements for health. It says the Budget provides $526.6 million over the next five years focused on:... Read more
After much agitation over the future of the national bowel cancer screening program, the budget promises $138.7 million over four years to continue the program. It’s a welcome step in the right... Read more
You can download the health and ageing budget papers here. And the press releases here. Here is a quick summary of key mental health announcements (they are wide-ranging and impressive, including the... Read more
Rebecca de Boer, from the Commonwealth Parliamentary Library, has been investigating the backdrop to tonight’s budget announcements. Thanks to the Library’s FlagPost blog for allowing this... Read more
OK, so strictly speaking, Michael Marmot wasn’t directing his comments at our federal budget. These tweets were, in fact, reporting on a presentation he made last week to a Robert Wood Johnson F... Read more
If you’re trying to gauge public opinion on matters of the day, then don’t put too much weight on the sort of commentary posted at the bottom of online news articles. That is the implicati... Read more
Public health physician Moira McKinnon is one of two winners of the prestigious 2011 Calibre Prize for an outstanding essay. McKinnon’s essay “Who killed Matilda?” is based on her years as the main ad... Read more
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