The Royal Commission into the Detention and Protection of Children in the Northern Territory laid bare systemic and shocking failures in the treatment of mostly Aboriginal children and youn... Read more
Croakey intro: Sydney GP Sara Townend is urging medical colleagues to sign a petition calling on Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton to bring a refugee dying of advanced lung cancer from Naur... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: “Nobody medicates a short film or puts it in a psych ward,” said Melbourne artist Heidi Everett as she recently launched the inaugural Mojo Film Festival... Read more
This month’s JournalWatch aligns with moves in Australia, championed by mining billionaire Andrew ‘Twiggy’ Forrest, to lift the minimum age of smoking from 18 to 21. Dr Melissa Stoneham look... Read more
Both Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt and Victorian Health Minister Jill Hennesey expressed big concern on Wednesday on reports that a Melbourne doctors’ clinic is charging patients more to... Read more
Earlier this year, News Corp newspapers and its online sites splashed a story with the headline: The secret fee list your doctor doesn’t want you to see‘ (paywall). The report said it... Read more
Croakey has launched a campaign calling for a cohesive and vigorous public response to the crisis in public interest journalism in Australia. Using the tagline “Public Interest Journalism –... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: As this earlier post outlines, Croakey contributing editor Summer May Finlay is tweeting this week for @WePublicHealth from Geneva for the launch of the World Federa... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander-led Change the Record Coalition last week released its submission to the Council of Australian Governments’ (COAG) ‘r... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: As we have previously reported, mainstream media outlets – including Sky News, News Ltd and Radio 2GB – have in recent months fuelled the fires of a politically moti... Read more
