Voice, Treaty, Truth: on the agenda from national to local levels – #NAIDOC2019
Introduction by Croakey: The Federal Government plans to hold a referendum in the next three years o... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: As a standoff shapes up over the declaration of a climate crisis in the conservative NSW Riverina town of Wagga Wagga, where flooding, droughts and bushfires have all had an i... Read more
The Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety this week turned its attention to food and nutrition. The testimony of maggots in bins and rotting food in refrigerators was horrific. When so mu... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: The global response to the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is under-funded and lacking political leadership, according to experts interviewed in t... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: The Cairns hearing of the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety wraps up today, having heard from a roundtable of chefs, earlier in the week, that the quality of... Read more
In this month’s JournalWatch, Dr Melissa Stoneham reviews a study from South Africa that raises an interesting question. Are the two nutritional ills of low fruit and vegetable consumption, and drinki... Read more
International Indigenous health researchers have called for “comprehensive truth telling processes” to dismantle colonial narratives and systemic racism in health research, policy and serv... Read more
Climate breakdown, conflict and economic slowdowns are contributing to worrying increases in food insecurity globally, with about one in every nine people in the world suffering from hunger in 2018, a... Read more
Depression can be difficult to detect in routine clinical consultations, and health professionals sometimes use brief screening questionnaires to identify people who need further evaluation. Until rec... Read more
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) is reportedly in “overdrive” with inquiries and an unprecedented flow of early tax return lodgements from people seeking to claim some of their share of the $158 m... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: The Victorian mental health system is highly fragmented, with an inefficient patchwork of programs and services resulting from siloed funding arrangements between Commonwealth... Read more
