Not long ago it looked like we’d exceed 1.5oC in 20 years, now it looks like 10. Maybe sooner if politicians keep approving new fossil fuel mines and fields and the logging of native forests. Particulate air pollution kills 9 million a year. When will we hit 1.5oC of warming? Because people know I have Continue reading »
Health
The Federal Government has announced a review of current policies and programs that aim to promote a more equitable distribution of the health workforce. The Working Better for Medicare Review, to be led by nurse, advocate and remote health expert Professor Sabina Knight and former senior health bureaucrat and academic Mick Reid, is expected to consult Continue reading »
We need to forge alliances to continue our global health leadership, writes the director of the Independent Commission on UK-EU Relations
The proposed changes 'are symptomatic of the continued systematic violation of disabled folk'
Australian national and state governments are very good at holding inquiries and releasing reports aimed at tackling wicked problems. Top of today’s long list is Domestic and Family Violence (DFV), where all governments combined to produce another National Plan last year: “On 17 October 2022, the Australian, state and territory governments released the National Plan to End Violence Continue reading »
Australia’s penal colony culture has continued into the fabric of all our public administrations, but most particularly Health, Education, Community Services and Justice. ‘Don’t challenge the System. Learn to do what you’re told, and to know your place,’ could be the mottoes of many arms of government. In the field known as ‘Alcohol and Other Continue reading »
NHS consultant David Oliver argues that the Government since 2010 is to blame for the worsening social care crisis
Becoming an Elder in many societies is a process of active shared engagement across the generations, and holding a meaningful and honoured place in one’s community. Sadly, that time-honoured community cultural process has been pretty much eradicated in modern westernised, market-driven systems of ‘Aged Care,’ such as dominate the Australian ‘market.’ No wonder so many Continue reading »
NHS doctor David Oliver explores how the Conservatives' NHS policies left it in a dire state and unable to cope with the pandemic
Dr Kit Yates examines the lessons emerging from the Covid Inquiry and why fear of pressure from politicians led to the creation of Independent SAGE