According to our latest readership analysis (more details here), below are the details of our most popular articles in August, September and October (not including the homepage).
These rankings are based on readership at Croakey.org and do not include readership via Apple News and Facebook.
Top reads in October
1. Who is talking for us? The silencing of the Aboriginal woman’s voice about violence
By Marlene Longbottom, Yvette Roe and Bronwyn Fredericks
2. A call to acknowledge the harmful history of nursing for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
By Janine Mohamed
3. Seven key messages from the AIHW Health Expenditure Report
By Jennifer Doggett
4. No glass ceiling in the bush: ACCRM president reflects on culture, connection and rural practice
By Ruth Stewart
5. Magical Realism and the draft Fifth National Mental Health Plan
By Sebastian Rosenberg
6. Historic meeting pushes for national action on health and climate change
By Jennifer Doggett
7. In the brave new world of medical regulation, there are many questions to be answered
By Marie McInerney
8. Australia’s Health 2016 – what’s missing? (Hint: it’s a pretty big omission)
By Lyn Morgain
9. Aged care reforms: who really benefits?
By Sarah Russell
In October, there were 4,534 total views of Croakey stories on Apple News (in addition to readers at the website), and the top story was:
Malcolm Turnbull, I hope you have your listening ears on
By Summer May Finlay
Top reads in September
1. Bubup Wilam: will this model of Aboriginal empowerment really fall through the funding cracks?
By Summer May Finlay and Angie Zerella
2. To mark MarmotOz and the Boyer Lectures, Croakey launches an SDOH compilation – get your free copy here
By Melissa Sweet
3. Fantasyland or a Fair Go? Michael Marmot on QandA
By Amy Coopes
4. Health sector urged to step up and engage with welfare reform debate and processes
By Alison Verhoeven, Michael Moore, Frank Quinlan, Pat Turner and Leanne Wells
5. Come join me in fantasyland – Marmot’s first Boyer Lecture
By Amy Coopes
6. Why evidence is not enough
By Miriam Vandenberg and Richard Eccleston
7. Please like me: Facebook and Public Health Engagement
By James Kite and Becky Freeman
8. Cripcroakey: Mediscare resonated because being sick can be so damn scary
By El Gibbs
9. ‘One thing leads to another’: lessons from Marmot
By Ben Harris-Roxas
In September, on AppleNews there were 5,203 total views (in addition to readers at the website), and the top article was:
Health professionals as vendors: the commercial erosion of evidence and ethics
By Wendy Lipworth, Christopher Mayes and Ian Kerridge
Top reads in August
1. Calling on The Australian to apologise for Leak cartoon: Open letter from journalists, writers, artists and others
By more than 200 journalists, writers, artists and others
2. Make #MyCensus count for public health
By Anne Kavanagh
3. IndigenousDads: countering racist stereotypes with love and pride
By Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people on Twitter
4. Dear Dr Gillespie: Don’t narrow the rural health agenda
By Gordon Gregory
5. Kennett’s comments on Don Dale: a personal opinion or beyond conscionable?
By Ruth Armstrong
6. Health groups welcome 10 Health Care Home trial sites but warn funding ‘substantially inadequate’
By various health organisations
7. Wearable health technologies: better health for all or new ways to confuse, confound and exclude?
By Marie McInerney
8. The Olympics: faster, higher, stronger…unhealthier?
By Marie McInerney, with thanks to Melissa Stoneham
9. Sir Michael Marmot to deliver Boyer lectures – and other news on the social determinants of health
By Melissa Sweet
In August on Apple News, there were 7,934 total views (in addition to readers at the website), and the top story was:
The Olympics: faster, higher, stronger…unhealthier?
By Marie McInerney, with thanks to Melissa Stoneham
• Since our launch as a standalone platform in September 2015, we have had almost 362,000 page views. For more details, see the Croakey Readership page.