Dr Alex Wodak, president of the Australian Drug Law Reform Foundation, offers 10 well-kept secrets about the state of health in Australia.
Jenny Macklin's latest effort in justifying policy is her gross over-promoting of the results of a very small and dicey survey of 76 income-managed residents in four communities in the Northern Territory.
Surgeons are human, inevitably they will make mistakes that could have been avoided. But it's best that however embarrassing, the truth be told, writes Professor Guy Maddern.
The question of how much to pay for "closing the gap" in Aboriginal health ought to be debated more on ethical lines than on economic lines -- but the two inevitably intersect, writes Professor Gavin Mooney.
The recent death of an Aboriginal man who had tested positive to swine flu has raised concerns of the vulnerability of Indigenous people to disease pandemics, writes Dr Sophie Couzos.
You could argue that Indigenous health is our most important issue. So why isn't the media picking up on it? asks Dr Ruth Armstrong.
Professor Barclay et al quite outrageously suggest that the obstetric system currently in place has increased suffering and injury to women and infants, writes Dr Ted Weaver.
The Rudd Government may have hit the ground reviewing but that hasn’t meant it was totally in tune with the collective mindset of a number of summit groups, write Bernard Keane and Eleri Harris.
You can’t be agnostic when the whole point of contracting out public services is to gain the cost and productivity benefits of the more efficient private sector, writes Jeremy Sammut.
In an ideal world we would not have workforce shortages anywhere in Australia. But we do. And just maybe the NT Intervention is an effective short term way of recruiting new blood, writes Dr Sue Page.
