Expect six-year-old Melbourne boy Isiah Hobba – now dubbed a ‘Gunditjmara warrior’ – to be walking in Clinton Pryor’s footsteps one day. Clinton is a Wajuk, Balardung, Kija... Read more
As previously reported, the recent Indigenous health Twitter festival – #IHMayDay17 – generated more than 72 million Twitter impressions. As well as Twitter conversations, partic... Read more
Griffith Review has kindly allowed republication here of the essay below by Australian health journalist and medical student Amy Corderoy. In this #LongRead titled ‘The Sickness of soc... Read more
This is the final instalment of Croakey Conference News Service coverage of the recent National Rural Health Conference in Cairns. It is in three parts: a reflection by journalist Melissa Sw... Read more
Some of the big challenges facing the country’s 31 primary health networks (PHNs), established in July 2015 by the Coalition Government to replace the 61 Medicare Locals created under the pr... Read more
A new report on Tuesday highlighted Australia’s continuing failure to address the needs of the Stolen Generations and the grief, loss and anger that has been passed on as a result to t... Read more
Victims of serious accidents and disasters in rural Australia may be missing out on critical immediate care because local doctors are being excluded from emergency responses. The recent Nati... Read more
Surgery should be considered a last resort for the treatment of knee osteoarthritis, under a new clinical care standard released today by the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in H... Read more
The Climate Council on Thursday released Risky Business: Health, climate and economic risks of the Carmichael coalmine which says that, if the proposed Galilee Basin mine were a country, it... Read more
Prevention, we learnt from the 2017-18 Federal Budget, will be part of a ‘third wave’ of reform being planned by Health Minister Greg Hunt – possibly to be outlined in the next budget. There... Read more
