The Mayor of Palm Island, Alf Lacey, has urged people around the world to engage with #IHMayDay18, an Indigenous health Twitter festival that takes place from 7am to 10.15pm AEST on Thursday... Read more
Join us on a #CroakeyGO on Wednesday 30 May on Palm Island, off the coast of Townsville in Queensland, that explores personal, political and place-based aspects of history. As we walk, talk... Read more
This Thursday, 31 May, is the fifth annual Indigenous Health MayDay Twitter festival – #IHMayDay18. As previously reported, the theme this year is Stepping Out Into Our Future, and the... Read more
Too many health professionals still act like they know what is best for all Aboriginal people, and health promotion can be unhealthy and unproductive when it is “top down”, accor... Read more
In the latest edition of The Health Wrap, Associate Professor Lesley Russell looks at emerging detail from the #HealthBudget18, particularly its impact on women (most negatively on women wit... Read more
The Croakey Conference News Service report from the recent Lowitja Institute forum in Canberra, Community priorities into policy, has been released. See the #ResearchIntoPolicy stories, and... Read more
The National Rural Health Alliance has released an overview of the recent Federal Budget, stating that for the first time in a Federal Health Department Budget lock up, an outline of new and... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: As this earlier post outlines, Croakey contributing editor Summer May Finlay is tweeting this week for @WePublicHealth from Geneva for the launch of the World Federa... Read more
Summer May Finlay writes: This week I will be tweeting for @WePublicHealth from Geneva, Switzerland: an unlikely location for Indigenous health but I am part of a significant event – the lau... Read more
On 27 April, more than 25 people participated in a walk of acknowledgement and remembrance on Yinggarda country, in Carnarvon, Western Australia (as was previewed at Croakey recently). They... Read more
