When community sport becomes a political football, it’s time to change the game
Introduction by Croakey: Professor Brendan Murphy, currently the Australian Government’s Chief Medic... Read more
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Introduction by Croakey: If large numbers of Australians require urgent hospital treatment for the novel coronavirus, how will the system cope? With great difficulty, one would assume, given the wides... Read more
Croakey’s peripatetic correspondent, Dr Ruth Armstrong, has taken the Twitter account @WePublicHealth on a road trip in the United States, sharing public health postcards from Texas and Louisian... Read more
Please download, read and share this 98-page report compiling our coverage from the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine annual scientific meeting in Hobart in November 2019. Amy Coopes covered... Read more
In the latest edition of Journal Watch, Dr Melissa Stoneham reviews a recent study from Aotearoa/New Zealand that investigates a potential role for pharmacies in selling tobacco (as currently happens... Read more
Michelle O’Shea, Hazel Maxwell, Megan Stronach, and Sonya Pearce write: Regular exercise is important for Indigenous women’s health, as it protects against obesity and chronic conditions such as... Read more
The pace of news and developments with the novel coronavirus – #2019nCoV – is so rapid that at this stage, one of the best services we can provide is to connect our readers with useful sources of upda... Read more
Divisive public debates about Aboriginal identity are causing harm, according to Summer May Finlay, a Yorta Yorta woman, public health academic, and contributing editor at Croakey. Summer May Finlay w... Read more
In an ode to primary care published ahead of the Federal election last year, GP Dr Karen Price suggested Australia could learn from Denmark, which has been able to dramatically reduce the number of ho... Read more
Over the summer, Amy Coopes spent long hours on Twitter sharing bushfire news, especially for her local community of Albury and surrounds, on Wiradjuri Country in southern NSW. Her tweets also conveye... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: Professor Brendan Murphy, currently the Australian Government’s Chief Medical Officer, will be the new Secretary of the Department of Health, following the retirement of Gleny... Read more
