Ken Wyatt’s historic appointment as Australia’s first Aboriginal Cabinet minister and first Indigenous person to be Minister for Indigenous Australians has been widely acclaimed.... 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
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
Labor’s 2019 election promise to invest $2.4 billion in a Pensioner Dental Plan – giving up to three million older Australians access to free dental care – has been welcomed as... Read more
As predicted, health and healthcare are big issues in the first week of the federal election campaign, to the extent that online news outlet Crikey declared on Wednesday that “Labor’s... Read more
In this article, originally published at The Conversation, Stephen Duckett, Director of the Health Program at the Grattan Institute, looks at the claims, counter-claims and facts behind two... Read more
In this article, one of a series on health and other issues being published at The Conversation in the leadup to the May 18 federal election, Jim Gillespie, Deputy Director, Menzies Centre f... Read more
