Introduction by Croakey: In a year dominated by the public health crisis of COVID-19 it’s no surprise that Health Minister Greg Hunt touted a record portfolio spend in Tuesday’s... Read more
NT Labor, led by Michael Gunner, is expected to form a majority government, the ABC has reported today. And Labor’s election victory is likely to strengthen the resolve of other states... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced yesterday that the Federal Government had signed an agreement with UK-based pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca to manufacture... Read more
After a decade-long battle, Australia’s groundbreaking tobacco plain packaging laws have cleared their final hurdle with the World Trade Organisation. The University of Sydney’s... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: When Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced the scrapping of the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) last month, he reiterated his previous description of the... Read more
Local Indigenous communities have shown tremendous leadership in protecting their own peoples from the spread of coronavirus, write University of Queensland academics Professor Bronwyn Frede... Read more
Rose Cairns and Nicholas Buckley write: Fears switching the painkiller codeine to a prescription only medicine would lead to more people misusing stronger painkillers are unfounded, accordin... Read more
Women are going to prison at a higher rate than ever in Australia. Our tough sentencing policies sent women to prison at twice the rate of England and Wales in 2018. At least one in two impr... Read more
Too often it takes a crisis to trigger changes in legislation and behaviour, when forward thinking, cooperation and future planning could have negated the risk in the first place. Australia’... Read more
Did you know the definition of high blood pressure (hypertension) in the United States was recently greatly expanded? Overnight, tens of millions of people were reclassified, leaving one in... Read more
