Last week’s #CroakeyGO #NavigatingHealth event attracted nearly 100 people to join us in navigating some of the pathways (and hearing about many of the mazes) in mental health. Sponsored by... Read more
There’s growing concern that the mental health needs of older Australians struggle to get onto the health reform agenda and that their informal carers – family and friends... Read more
The prevalence and impact of ageism in our community, and in the healthcare system, and the tendency to see poor mental health as a ‘normal’ part of ageing were major issues raised at the Me... Read more
Queensland police have decided to drop charges against four French journalists for trespass while they were filming an anti-Adani protest for a documentary for French TV. The case has raised... Read more
Australia’s peak body for rural, regional and remote health, the National Rural Health Alliance, has appointed rural clinician Dr Gabrielle O’Kane as its new Chief Executive Officer, to succ... Read more
A powerful session at the recent Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists’ Congress in Cairns focused on loneliness and its part in mental illness, mental health care, and r... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: Despite working in psychiatry for 20 years, Dr Emma Adams wasn’t prepared for what she saw when she first went as a volunteer observer to a detention centre fo... Read more
People with disabilities and their carers and organisations took to Twitter and venues across Australia last Friday to call for action on critical flaws and failures in the rollout of the Na... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: In her ode to primary care in the article below, GP Dr Karen Price warns against the “cherry picking of diseases”, such as the Coalition’s 10-year... Read more
The 23rd World Conference on Health Promotion was staged last month in Aotearoa/New Zealand by the International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE). Dr Melissa Stoneham reports... Read more
