Ken Wyatt’s historic appointment as Australia’s first Aboriginal Cabinet minister and first Indigenous person to be Minister for Indigenous Australians has been widely acclaimed.... Read more
The appointment of Ken Wyatt as Minister for Indigenous Australians was on Monday hailed as a “historic” and “defining” moment in Australian politics, as the country... Read more
Marie McInerney writes: Rates of depression, anxiety and suicide among doctors have made headlines in recent years, underscored by high profile campaigns like #crazysocks4docs, but in ways t... Read more
When it comes to mental health, you are what you eat, and the government must intervene to promote healthier diets through taxation and legislative reform. These were the messages from a fas... Read more
Climate change, species extinction and habitat loss pose a risk to mental health and psychiatrists have a duty of care to speak out on the “radical action” required from our lead... Read more
As both major parties jostle for poll-driven primacy in the mental health space, Australia’s psychiatrists are urging a deeper commitment to mental health and its determinants —... Read more
Please download, read and share a report compiling our coverage of the recent Lowitja Institute forum on knowledge translation success stories in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health... Read more
In a sterile, depersonalising remand environment designed to strip inmates of all individuality and ties to the familiar, the simple act of listening can be a profound connection to self. Th... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: The global environment continues to deteriorate at an unprecedented rate and effective solutions lie in systemic reforms targeting not only environmental but social... Read more
Growing the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health workforce will be central — indeed pivotal — to reducing Indigenous health inequities, but we appear to be falling short.... Read more
