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: As the nation’s supermarket shelves were stripped of toilet paper in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, longstanding concerns about the high prices of food and... Read more
Update: This article has been updated to include the Australian Medical Association’s response to the National Rural Health Commissioner’s appointment. Rural organisations have w... Read more
Private health insurers appear set to profit from the COVID-19 crisis, with a new report suggesting they will collectively reap a windfall of between $3.5 billion and $5.5 billion over the n... Read more
*** This post was updated on 31 March with news about the closure of the Torres News, and again on 1 April with more news *** Rarely has it been more important for communities to have truste... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: Political leaders called for a greater focus on tackling the social determinants of health and increased investment in preventing illness and suffering at the Rural... Read more
If Scott Morrison is looking for a way to make his mark as a Prime Minister for health, Jennifer Doggett is here to help. Introducing geographical Medicare provider numbers would help addres... Read more
To improve Indigenous health, a call to tackle “crushing poverty” and “the disease of powerlessness”
Dr Sebastian Rosenberg writes: The Prime Minister’s recent visit to Tennant Creek highlights how strategies to close the gap are failing to address the mental health and wellbeing of Austral... Read more
Croakey has been running a mini-series examining national rural health policy, by Gordon Gregory, former CEO of the National Rural Health Alliance. In the previous two articles, Gregory prov... Read more
Gordon Gregory writes: In the Federal Budget in May, the Government announced what it called a Stronger Rural Health Strategy. It would be very useful to have a national strategy to guide an... Read more
