Australian public support health aid for PNG Federal YouGov polling of more than 1,000 people indicates overwhelming public support for the Australian government to help Papua New Guinea stop the spread of COVID-19.
Survey results on the effectiveness of COVID-19 communications in Asian Australian communities February 3, 2021 By Wonsun Shin and Jay Song Culture A critical part of successfully dealing with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic in Australia and globally is ensuring that culturally and linguistically diverse communities have a
Premium Mandarin Talks [Watch Now] Mandarin Talks: Public sector mental health challenges for 2021 February 1, 2021 By Chris Johnson Culture 1PM AEDT. 24 February 2021. It’s 2021 and, a few contained outbreaks aside, Australia has become the envy of much of the world in terms
Most government information on COVID-19 is too hard for the average Australian to understand January 28, 2021 By Cath Ferguson, Margaret Kristin Merga and Stephen Winn Editors' Picks Almost half of Australian adults struggle with reading. Similar levels of struggling readers are reported in the United Kingdom and United States. This does not
Think tank wants governments to prepare their health sectors for climate change impacts December 7, 2020 By Shannon Jenkins Energy & Environment Australia’s federal, state and territory health departments must address the potentially worsening health threats posed by climate change in their long-term planning, according to a
Premium Insights and analysis Strict but fair? Victoria’s tough new hotel quarantine embodies hard learned lessons December 2, 2020 By Matthew Elmas Features Victoria has unveiled a new and improved hotel quarantine system. It’s tough, but also more holistic in its approach to resident wellbeing, and, perhaps most
Opinion: Time for smart masking November 13, 2020 By Nathan Grills ‘Masks will be with us for as long as they need to be’, Victoria’s Health Minister Martin Foley said last week. The good news is
How do we know statistics can be trusted? October 23, 2020 By Samantha Vilkins, Sujatha Raman and Will J Grant Editors' Picks In April, as the coronavirus pandemic was gathering force around the world, reporters asked Brendan Murphy, then Australia’s Chief Medical Officer, about international case numbers.
New research makes case for policies to improve public health with self-care October 7, 2020 By Shannon Jenkins Federal Federal health minister Greg Hunt is set to launch a new policy blueprint that calls for policy reform to improve population health and reduce health
Premium Interviews Helen Haines, the Independent from Indi, on bipartisanship October 5, 2020 By Scott Hamilton and Stuart Kells Editors' Picks At the last federal election, Helen Haines achieved a remarkable feat when she won the Australian House of Representatives seat of Indi. It was the
Premium Insights and analysis The structural underpinning of our health response to the pandemic September 21, 2020 By Tom Keating Editors' Picks Victoria excels in health services management but is seriously deficient in allocative efficiency. It has the capacity to analyse population health but it does not
WA, Commonwealth deploy staff to assist Victorian health response July 1, 2020 By Shannon Jenkins Health Western Australian government former chief health officer Professor Tarun Weeramanthri has been deployed to Victoria to assist with the state’s rising number of COVID-19 cases.
Opinion: systems modelling can save us from delayed actions and wrong turns in policymaking June 4, 2020 By Jo-An Atkinson & Ian B. Hickie & Kenny Lawson Editors' Picks Cast your mind back to the once ubiquitous paper-based roadmaps (‘Refidex’; “Gregorys or Melways). Every car had one. A book of several hundred maps that
Premium Columnists The government dreams of an economic snap-back even as the dire evidence stares everyone in the face May 14, 2020 By Verona Burgess Editors' Picks THE OBSERVER: There are so many lessons that could be learnt from these fruitful few months of political detente. Perhaps some will be, writes Verona
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