Given this history of strength and success, why do Aboriginal health dollars keep going to NINGOs?
Aboriginal community controlled health services have many advantages, including their power to advoc... Read more
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Last week, Minister for Health, Greg Hunt, announced an Expert Steering Committee to oversee the development of a 10 year National Preventive Health Strategy. Plans to develop this strategy were annou... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: Businesses, health services, trade unions, universities and other institutions are supporting today’s historic school strike, while some academics have signed an open letter s... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: Evidence tells us that lower-income and other disadvantaged groups (and nations) contribute least to causing climate change but are likely to be most negatively affected by it... Read more
The health sector is currently a big part of the problem in the climate emergency we are facing, generating around seven per cent of Australia’s total greenhouse gas emissions. A coalition of health p... Read more
As international evidence of the harms of e-cigarettes mounts, a statement has been released from the Chief Medical Officer and State and Territory Chief Health Officers warning Australian users of an... Read more
Our throwaway culture is in hyperdrive in hospitals, heavily contributing to the over-sized carbon footprint of the health sector generally and creating serious health and environmental risks. Profess... Read more
Hospital emergency departments are at the forefront of dealing with the impacts of the increasing number of floods, heatwaves, bushfires and other natural disasters that are being driven by climate ch... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: After the global school climate strike in March, the BMJ published an article by editor in chief Dr Fiona Godlee and others urging health professionals to support the activism... Read more
Such is the threat of the climate crisis to Torres Strait Islanders that a group has lodged a case with the United Nations Human Rights Committee, arguing that Australia’s failure to take adequate ste... Read more
Responses to the climate crisis must stop excluding disabled people and ensure their knowledge and needs are centred, according to writer El Gibbs. “Listen to us, include us and hear our expertise,” s... Read more
