When the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) released the latest findings from the national burden of disease study recently, it resulted in optimistic headlines like ‘We... Read more
A couple of decades ago, I was working at The Australian and wrote a piece arguing in favour of voluntary euthanasia. People should have the right to decide when to end their life, I argued,... Read more
Over the past 25 years mental illness has emerged from the behind the walls of the asylums and is recognised as one of the most serious and growing health challenges facing 21st century soci... Read more
Australians have been urged to consider civil disobedience to pressure governments to raise the age at which children can be locked up behind bars. The Secretary-General of Amnesty Internati... Read more
Aboriginal author Bruce Pascoe received a rapturous response from delegates at the Lowitja Institute’s International Indigenous Health and Wellbeing Conference in conference in Darwin on Wed... Read more
The Wellbeing Budget recently handed down in Aotearoa/New Zealand was a hot topic of conversation at the Public Health Prevention Conference in Melbourne last week (see tweets beneath this p... Read more
Australia’s national Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health research institute was welcomed back to its “spiritual home” on Larrakia Land in Darwin yesterday evening during a cultural... Read more
Members of the broad prevention sector must work together to present a unified plan of action for the new national preventive health strategy, according to Professor Anna Peeters, Director o... Read more
Health advocates have welcomed plans for “a long-term national preventive health strategy”, announced today by Health Minister Greg Hunt, but warned that it must not take a narrow focus, and... Read more
At the Public Health Prevention Conference that opened in Melbourne today, public health practitioners were urged to “smash the silos” that constrain their work, and to engage wi... Read more
