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
Welcome to our first ever #CroakeyREAD event. We will be updating this post overnight. The conversations kicked off at 6.30pm with introductions and acknowledgements, ahead of this fabulous... Read more
By the end of 2018, a My Health Record (MHR) will be created for every Australian unless they choose not to have one. This major development brings potential benefits – but also raises compl... Read more
Just three days after last week’s Federal budget documented the scale of cuts to climate spending (as outlined here), the latest update to the National Greenhouse Gas Inventory was released,... Read more
*** This post was updated several times on 9 May, and also on 10 May *** This post compiles reaction to health-related measures in the Federal Budget, regarding the social determinants of he... Read more
The Senators inquiring into the use of transvaginal mesh implants in Australia were very clear about their intentions. They wanted their report to enable people to hear and learn from the ex... Read more
In the latest edition of The Health Wrap, Associate Professor Lesley Russell looks at an instructive international comparison of healthcare spending, some worrying – and encouraging – develo... Read more
