Australia’s innovative preventive health agency was closed down by the Abbott government. How — and in what form — should it be revived? Melissa Sweet explores some of the options below, in... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: Associate Professor Linda Selvey has worked in diverse leadership roles in public health: in universities; government (at Queensland Health); and the NGO sector, as... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: Why do governments and health ministers fail so consistently to implement evidence that clearly shows how they could act to save lives and prevent suffering? Which h... Read more
In his second parliamentary reading of the legislation that established Medicare’s predecessor, Medibank, in 1973, then federal minister for social security, Bill Hayden, described the schem... Read more
Scott Morrison has a timing problem. Last year, he sought to ridicule renewable energy supporters by passing a lump of coal around Parliament, saying, “Don’t be afraid, don’t be scared... Read more
Rural health advocate Gordon Gregory is kicking off a two-part series about the way drought policy is conceived and handled in Australia, and how the current drought in NSW and Queensland ra... Read more
The number of submissions to a Senate inquiry into the obesity epidemic in Australia has jumped to 120 since Amy Coopes reported for Croakey last week that there had been “a meagre” eight su... Read more