South Australia goes to the polls this Saturday, with expectations that Labor will lose office after 12 years in government. In the post below, Professor Fran Baum, professor of public healt... Read more
Online youth mental health service ReachOut.com by Inspire Foundation and EY (formerly Ernst and Young) yesterday called for a shift to a “21st century mental health care system”, saying gro... Read more
Journalist Sean Parnell – health and freedom of information editor at The Australian – recently wrote a very personal piece about having depression. In it, he describes its onse... Read more
Tough new laws for drink-related offences in New South Wales will have a disproportionate effect on Aboriginal people, says Amy McQuire, editor of Tracker, the magazine produced by the NSW A... Read more
It’s a perennial question for researchers, policy makers and advocates in public health and social policy areas: how do we influence the real decision-makers? A recent study of senior... Read more
It seems doctors will not face $5000 fines, after all, if they don’t request the removal of unsolicited online comments about their services, according to a “clarification” by the Medical Bo... Read more
Assistant Health Minister Fiona Nash has been censured by the Senate for misleading it and refusing to produce documentation on the “undertakings” given by her former chief of staff Alastair... Read more
Earlier this week Croakey published an open letter from Victorian surgeon Jill Tomlinson to the Medical Board of Australia expressing concern about a “lack of understanding of social media c... Read more
Recognition of the social determinants of health is still in its infancy in Australia though momentum is building, says Dr Gemma Carey, a population health and political science researcher a... Read more
The Hazelwood coal mine fire that has been burning in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley since February 9 is raising major public health issues for those living in and near the town of Morwell.... Read more
