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
It’s fair to say politicians can’t always be trusted but Labor health spokeswoman Catherine King was pretty much on the money with this observation in her debate with Health Mini... Read more
We’re now half way through the five-week 2019 election campaign and Labor is still setting the agenda on health and the social determinants of health. As was clear from Prime Minister... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: This Friday, 3 May, the grassroots Every Australian Counts campaign that fought for the introduction of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is leading a... Read more
In one of the more significant announcements of the 2019 election campaign, Labor promised this week to invest $2.4 billion in a Pensioner Dental Plan – giving up to three million older Aust... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: Cheap “gotcha” journalism moments such as we saw in this week’s Leaders Debate on Channel Seven, where Opposition Leader Bill Shorten was asked to... Read more
