Croakey is closed for summer holidays and will resume publishing in the week of 18 January 2021. In the meantime, we are re-publishing some of our top articles from 2020. This article was fi... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: To address COVID-19, we must stop conceptualising the problem as an infectious disease pandemic and instead consider it as a “syndemic” involving both bi... Read more
Organisations across the health sector, and indeed more widely, are under great pressure to adapt to COVID-19 disruption, for the short and longer term. At times like these, effective govern... Read more
Australia’s public health professionals have been widely praised for their contribution towards tackling the COVID-19 pandemic. But where do they stand on some of the worrying trends emergin... Read more
Concerns about the harmful impacts of over-regulation of Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations (ACCHOs) are longstanding, and include the diversion of organisational focus fro... Read more
Could “reciprocal accountability” – a concept based upon a more equitable distribution of power between governments and Indigenous peoples – help to liberate Indigenous health se... Read more
Important questions about the governance of the multi-billion dollar agreement between the Federal Government and Pharmacy Guild of Australia (representing pharmacy owners) are raised in the... Read more
In part two of a Croakey series analysing the Government’s plans for Medicare Locals, Professor Philip Davies, Professor of Health Systems and Policy at the University of Queensland (a... Read more
