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Budget mega-wrap: healthcare announcements and reactions

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

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PromiseWatch 2013: mental health services policy

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

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Raising tax, removing subsidies: out of the box ideas to boost population health

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.

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Less cynicism about the Anzac spirit

Crikey readers talk healthcare costs, advertising on the Bureau of Meteorology website and the Anzac spirit.

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The rise and rise of health spending — but don’t blame the old people

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.

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NT govt’s ‘problem drinkers’ policy: reasons to be concerned

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.

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Pickled policy: why NT’s mandatory grog rehab scheme is doomed for failure

The NT government’s $100 million plan to detain citizens who have not committed crimes but are regularly liquored-up in public is the latest alcohol initiative that won’t work — and more than likely exacerbate the problem.

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Crikey Blogs | FOOD & TRAVEL|

The story of the Broken Hill Table Tennis Club — and its significance for rural health

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.

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Crikey Blogs | FEDERAL|

Indigenous wellbeing in the spotlight at National Rural Health Conference

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.

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Community & creativity: National Rural Health Conference kicks off

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.

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Tips and rumours

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

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‘We are all health ministers’: the Aboriginal definition of health

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.

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Crikey Blogs | FEDERAL|

On ciggies and grog, Roxon’s public health legacy is plain

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.

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Vale Croakey contributor Gavin Mooney

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

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Crikey Blogs | FEDERAL|

On mental health and suicide prevention, are we stuck in Groundhog Day?

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

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What’s missing from the first national mental health report card

The National Mental Health Commission’s first report card suggests a new beginning, but the next should focus less about the past twenty years and more about the next twenty, writes Sebastian Rosenberg.

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Coalition plan to hack into Medicare Locals unwinds reform

Medical experts are concerned any move by the Coalition to scrap Medicare Local operations will unwind important primary healthcare reform. Health journalist Mark Metherell reports.

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Crikey Blogs | EUROPE|

Denmark, on fiscal diet, scraps world’s first ‘fat tax’

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.

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Census data shatters perceptions of homelessness

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.

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Crikey Blogs | FOOD & TRAVEL|

‘They call me Jimmy Wavehhill’ — reflections on cattle and country

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.

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@IndigeousX: using social media to connect with Aboriginal communities

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.

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Doctor divides uni: gay student told to seek hormone testing

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.

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Why doctors shouldn’t make assumptions about fat patients

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.

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No jobs so medical graduates face a life serving doughnuts

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.

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Richard Farmer’s chunky bits: Gillard in prime position to stay

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

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