Introduction by Croakey: With flash flooding ravaging bushfire-devastated areas of Australia this week and a crossbench push for new legislation transitioning the economy to zero emissions b... Read more
Australia’s chief medical officer and health minister have roundly condemned reports of racial profiling and xenophobia in response to the novel coronavirus outbreak in China, as the W... Read more
Targeting prevention and the root causes of offending, shifting the emphasis of the justice system to restoration and restitution, and greater control and accountability for Aboriginal and T... Read more
Social prescribing is popular with both doctors and patients but the infrastructure and funding are lacking, according to a new report calling for the practice to become a routine part of pr... Read more
Long hours, discrimination and bullying, and fears about job security are just some of the realities of life for Australian doctors in training, according to the first-ever national survey o... Read more
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has insisted he won’t be “bullied” into stronger action on the climate emergency or to allow a “confined, narrow debate... Read more
Prohibitionist, ‘just say no’ approaches to drug use do not work and are causing significant harm, according to two much-anticipated inquiries which have called for a reframing o... Read more
The government’s cashless debit card was not only a breach of Australia’s human rights obligations and an affront to Indigenous self-determination, it also contradicted commitmen... Read more
LGBTI health advocates have condemned the omission — by request from the ministerial office responsible — of sexuality, gender and intersex status questions from test ballots for... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: Tobacco use contributes to more than one in eight deaths in Australia and remains the leading risk factor for premature mortality, with the burden of past smoking co... Read more
