What’s at stake in health in this year’s election is summed up neatly in an article in the Brisbane Times this morning on the performance of one of the government’s GP super clinics, operating in Strathpine on Brisbane’s northern outskirts.…
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The Coalition’s health agenda: protect doctors’ incomes
Tagged with: Coalition, Federal Election 2010, health, Peter Dutton, strathpine, super clinic
Posted in federal election 2010, health
Posted in federal election 2010, health
An Embuggerance
Author Terry Pratchett has revealed that he has been diagnosed with a rare form of early onset Alzheimer’s disease. I can only imagine how distressing it must be for someone who has spent his life as a wordsmith to start…
Tagged with: carers, elderly relatives, emotional lives, health, neurological level, onset alzheimer, sandra day o connor, social interaction, terry pratchett, xmas
Posted in culture, health, life, sexuality
Posted in culture, health, life, sexuality
Double standard watch
Why is it that doctors employed at Royal North Shore Hospital are giving press interviews outside the building every day this week of the NSW parliamentary inquiry into the hospital, while not a single nurse employed by RNSH has given…
Tracking The Intervention: Discarding and devaluing Aboriginal work
Guest Post from Lauredhel Crossposted from Hoyden About Town. Jangari’s “Four Corners on the Intervention” pulls out a few key points from the other night’s Tracking The Intervention show.You can watch the show for yourself here at the ABC. Jangari…
Tagged with: Australia, Federal election 2007, health, indigenous, NT intervention, politics
Posted in elections, health, indigenous, politics
Posted in elections, health, indigenous, politics
Movember
I’ve vaguely been thinking “good on ’em” but not much more about it with regards to the whole Movember movement – grow a moustache during November to raise funds for men’s health. It’s good to see the joint effort with…
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Larvatus Prodeo in exile 