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Crikey’s health blog Croakey compiles everything you want to know about healthcare initiatives, including an overview of key announcements and reactions from experts.

What are the major parties promising in terms of mental health services? Crikey journalist Andrew Crook and the CDP’s Julia Hosking find out.

If the federal government wanted to use the forthcoming budget to boost population health, what would it do? Melissa Sweet quizzes a panel of experts who contribute to Crikey’s health blog Croakey.

Health spending and health employment are surging in Australia. But it’s not inevitable, as the experience of other countries shows. And it’s not necessarily being driven by the ageing population.

The NT government’s proposed initiative to mandatorily detain “problem drinkers” is discriminatory and risks causer wider harm. Win Yee Tan and Melanie Johnson explain why.

The story of the Broken Hill Table Tennis Club tells us something about how the social and economic fortunes of mining towns can rise and fall — with wide-ranging implications for health, writes Melissa Sweet.

Indigenous health issues have featured prominently at this year’s National Rural Health Conference. Crikey’s health blog Croakey folds together coverage of three insightful reports.

The impressive opening ceremony of the 12th National Rural Health Conference in Adelaide showcased the importance of creativity, community, inclusion and equal opportunities, reports Marge Overs.

A mere $995 to drink with Rupert … senior ALP figure preparing to retire? … too many egos at Telstra spin bunker …

If Australia adopted the Aboriginal definition of health, writes Dr Tim Senior, we would end up with not only better services but better healthcare and more ministers.

Australia’s plain packaging cigarettes initiative has played an essential role in revitalising global action on tobacco. It’s one of several reasons why Nicola Roxon’s public health legacy deserves to recognition, writes Mike Daube.

Health economist and prolific Croakey contributor, Professor Gavin Mooney, and his partner Delys Weston have been murdered in Tasmania. Melissa Sweet pays tribute.

Australia’s first National Report Card on Mental Health and Suicide Prevention fails to address many important issues, writes Jaelea Skehan.

The Danish government has scrapped the world’s first “fat tax” one year after its implementation, arguing it put jobs at risk and increased prices for consumers and companies, writes Gary Sacks.

Census data released this week shatters perceptions of homeless people as middle-aged alcoholics or drug-addicted men sleeping in parks. It shows the problem is wide and systemic and the situation critical, writes James Farrell.

Jimmy Wavehill is a local legend in Katherine, NT, where he has lived a long and adventurous life. Bob Gosford compiles some of his stories.

Organisations looking to connect with Aboriginal communities can learn from social media activist Luke Pearson, founder of popular Twitter account @IndigenousX. Pearson speaks to Crikey’s health blog Croakey.

Students and staff at the University of Canberra are divided over the actions of a Catholic doctor at the university medical centre who refuses to prescribe contraception and suggested a gay student have a hormone test.

If doctors want to provide positive support to those patients who battle with their weight, treat them with respect and don’t assume they live on junk food, writes Penny Wilson.

It’s time for Australia to do something about the 180 Australian-trained medical graduates who face unemployment, writes University of Sydney medical student Benjamin Veness.

Labor leadership challenge on hold … Health back on the agenda ,,, Opinion polls in the US …