The quick resolution of passing legislation for the National Broadband Network is an important step to improve health and wellbeing communication for refugee and migrant communities in rural and regional areas, writes Ben O’Mara, a writer and Post Doctoral Research Fellow at Victoria University
National rural health
Katter’s rural suicide focus shows his heart’s in the right place
Bob Katter is the kind of guts-n-gusto personality who speaks a little too freely and shoots a little too much from hip. But on the subject of suicide his conviction is unquestionable, and his efforts are — at the very least — meritorious.
Rural health: beset by drought and conspicuous compassion
Government drought response efforts have often contributed to rural powerlessness — through the very measures they have deemed to be caring and responsive, writes Dr John Ashfield.
Caesareans and other unhealthy contradictions
The SMH series sounding the alarm on rising rates of elective caesarean surgery also highlights some of the peculiar contradictions of our health system, writes Melissa Sweet.
