Roxon: I’m not a nanny and I won’t nagGet ready for a new ‘Life Be In It’ campaign, with Nicola Roxon pimping a new agency aimed at preventative health issues. Like dealing with obesity, smoking and alcohol issues.
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Self-regulation of pharma industry isn’t working
A forum of experts last night warned that self-regulation by the pharmaceutical industry was not effective, writes Dr Ken Harvey.
What Roxon failed to mention about the swine flu vaccination
Health Minister Nicola Roxon is busy peddling the benefits of the swine flu vaccine, while Croakey examines the past perils of health ministers spruiking pharmaceuticals.
Parliamentary sisters are doing it for themselves
The feminisation of the Rudd government “seems to be the end of tokenism, with women pollies no longer a novelty”, writes Dr Paul Williams. Will Julia Gillard and Nicola Roxon be battling it out for first female PM?
All this nagging, Nicola, isn’t making us thin
Health Minister Nicola Roxon thinks we’re too fat, smoke too much and drink too much. But don’t worry, she’s got a solution: she’s going to nag us to death instead. Even if research suggests it won’t work.
Senate rebate vote a blow to cost-effective health policy
Private health insurance is one of the most inefficient and expensive mechanisms for paying for health care. It’s time to pension it off, writes health policy analyst Jennifer Doggett.
Coalition in dangerous territory as health bill stalls
Means-testing of private health insurance rebates has been rejected by the Senate, blowing a A$1.9 billion hole in the budget and serving as a potential trigger for double dissolution.
The Media Monitors' Top 20: Rudd’s media domination continues
A sign of unexpectedly benign economic times when the Treasurer doesn’t even make the Top 20. And vale Brendan Nelson.
We’re not homebirth wingnuts, we just want equal treatment
The issue of homebirth is up there with abortion — it divides the community into those who think it is OK, and those who don’t, writes Homebirth Australia’s Justine Caines.
Home birth wingnuts shouting down major steps forward for midwifery
No one is stopping Australian women who want home births from choosing them, writes Bernard Keane.
Decoding Rudd’s public service reshuffle
Governments might appoint mates and fellow travellers to authority boards, and diplomatic posts, but Public Service Secretaries are too important for that.
What’s Elvis Presley got to do with alcohol labelling?
Health Minister Nicola Roxon could do with ‘a little less conversation, a little more action’ when it comes to health warnings on alcohol labels, writes Jennifer Doggett.
The Media Monitors' Top 20: Costello keeps himself in the news
Peter Costello and Anna Bligh are among the most talked about politicians this week, with Anna Bligh up to third spot, thanks to her anti-corruption reforms this week.
Tips and rumours: The Maldives are sinking too
A Crikey tipster says today: Oxfam AND Crikey have forgotten the Maldives, whose president recently announced he was looking to evacuate his entire 350,000 people to either Sri Lanka or Indonesia.
Rudd to visit hospitals for health reform planning
Kevin Rudd and Nicola Roxon are set to visit 25 teaching hospitals in a order to gain further understanding of where the problems in hospitals and health care lie - “warts and all”.
Political snippets: Testing the Chinese friendship
A visit to Melbourne by Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer look set to test Chinese-Australian relations, a hairy headline, and Turnbull sniping continues at The Oz.
40 pages of mental health policy clichés
Australian Doctor’s political editor Paul Smith laments the latest National Mental Health Policy, endorsed in March, saying it offers “no real clue as to what will be done”.
The Media Monitors' Top 20: Swine flu keeps Roxon front and centre
The PM is back to the pack again with both Malcolm Turnbull and Nicola Roxon not that far away.
Get a grip: Swine Flu is not a biblical plague
The human instinct to arbitrarily select threats about which to panic, with a little help from the media, is proving very costly in the case of Swine Flu.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Crikey readers keep Werbeloffing
Chk Chk BOOM. Ad infinitum.
The Media Monitors' Top 20: Nicola Roxon bests Wayne Swan
If anyone had any doubts that swine flu was the preferred broadcast media issue to debt debates and endless infrastructure lists, figures from this week’s battle for political airspace should erase them.
Roxon to face anger over blocked public health report
The findings of a highly anticipated review of public health research that was conducted last year still aren’t out. Prof. Don Nutbeam, who chaired the review’s committee, has written a letter in frustration.
The Media Monitors' Top 20: Swine flu gives Nicola Roxon a boost
The massively hyped swine flu pushed the alert but not alarmed Nicola Roxon up the list.
The Media Monitors' Top 20: Roxon makes the most of Swine Flu press
Little surprise in the main movers of the week.
