Last month Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leaders, communities and organisations sent an open letter to the Federal Government calling for a formal response to the recommendations con... Read more
In the latest of the JournalWatch series of articles, Dr Melissa Stoneham reviews a Taiwanese study on how to determine the most effective smoking cessation messages and whether or not fear... Read more
Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) on Thursday strongly condemned the government of Nauru’s sudden decision to cease the provision of desperately needed mental health car... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: In the leadup to World Mental Health Day (today, 10 October), the new Scott Morrison led Federal Government announced its second major inquiry, a Productivity Commis... Read more
*Updated 10 October, with confirmation from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) that it has been “forced to terminate its provision of mental health services” on Nauru and all interna... Read more
Sydney radio talk show host Alan Jones on Tuesday apologised for comments he made to the head of the Sydney Opera House, after calling for her to be sacked for refusing to display an adverti... Read more
Tributes have been flowing to Professor John Deeble AO, often dubbed the “father of Medicare”, who has died at the age of 87. Former Labor Prime Minister Julia Gillard tweeted: I... Read more
Actions taken to tackle climate change over the next few years “are probably the most important in our history”, according to a new assessment from the Intergovernmental Panel on... Read more
Despite the concerted campaign run by the global #IndigenousNCDs movement in recent months, the UN Political Declaration on the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) was... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: The essay below – Why did you get into this work? – from leading public health academic and researcher Simon Chapman makes for timely reading. It comes ahead of this... Read more
