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Croakey is closed for summer holidays and will resume publishing in the week of 18 January 2021. In... Read more
In the last ten days, another three people have died after quad bike accidents. Two of the deaths were in Victoria and one was in Tasmania, according to Associate Professor Tony Lower, Director of the... Read more
Tomorrow night (March 9), the Sydney Morning Herald is convening a forum, to be held at the University of NSW, to canvass a vision for Sydney’s health. Presumably it’s election-related, so it is disap... Read more
Two senior executives in the Department of Health and Ageing are moving on. Mary Murnane, a deputy secretary, is retiring. Her responsibilities have included the Office of Health Protection including... Read more
On Monday, mental health advocate Professor John Mendoza was invited to attend a community symposium on mental health, to be held in Sydney on March 10. He can’t make the event, but replied with... Read more
The health debate in Australia is awful. Medical associations sometimes behave like militant trade unions – Painters and Dockers in white coats – while bureaucrats are often obsessed with proces... Read more
Croakey is closed for summer holidays and will resume publishing in the week of 18 January 2021. In... Read more
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