Introduction by Croakey The Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) is running public consultations on cultural safety in partnership with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islan... 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
Melissa Sweet writes: Ahead of the federal election, one of the world’s leaders in tackling health inequalities has warned against top-down approaches to addressing poverty and related healt... Read more
A coalition of health, welfare, and environment groups on Tuesday called for all candidates in the upcoming federal election to recognise climate change as a core public health threat and co... Read more
In a call marking the 28th anniversary of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, more than 80 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and other health, human rights, housing,... Read more
Did you know the definition of high blood pressure (hypertension) in the United States was recently greatly expanded? Overnight, tens of millions of people were reclassified, leaving one in... Read more
Removing the financial worries from Australians diagnosed with cancer is bound to be a popular move. The Opposition’s A$2.3 billion cancer care plan – announced in Bill Shorten’s budget repl... Read more
Growing the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health workforce will be central — indeed pivotal — to reducing Indigenous health inequities, but we appear to be falling short.... Read more
A summit of “appalled and frightened” Australian doctors have declared a climate emergency, urging governments at all levels to end “destructive, self-harming practices... Read more
After more than two years as Health Minister in a Government that has failed to tackle key public health issues such as climate change and obesity, Greg Hunt has committed to working more cl... Read more
