Auditor General’s Emergency Department Report Demands Action
The Auditor General’s report into Tasmania’s hospital emergency departments is enormously confronting.
May
2019
28
Health
May
2019
23
Budget in Vision and Compassion Deficit
The Treasurer promised a heavy infrastructure spend in today’s Budget, but what was clearly missing was the investment in social infrastructure.
May
2019
23
Climate Change Emergency – Health Effects
We have just 11 years to dramatically change course and avoid global heating that would bring catastrophic changes to all life.
May
2019
1
Health – Budget Priorities
The hospital executive received a letter that we spoke much about yesterday from the emergency department's registrar doctors.
Apr
2019
30
Pill Testing at Public Events
The ACT health minister invited Minister Ferguson to the Groovin the Moo Festival to observe their second pill-testing trial in operation.
Apr
2019
30
Hospitals – Recommendations of Registrars
The legacy of the Minister's five-year health leadership so far has been a failure to listen to doctors and nurses.
Mar
2019
25
Tasmanian Salmon Listeria Concern
Reports from Queensland about Tasmanian salmon carrying the potentially fatal listeria bacteria in February this year are concerning.
Mar
2019
13
Slow, Systemic Reforms Won’t Fix Systemic Under-funding of Child Protection
Tasmanian children and young people are being let down day after day as a result of persistent under-resourcing by the Hodgman Liberal Government.
Dec
2018
5
Tasmania’s Distressing AIHW Mental Health Report Card
Tasmanians are buying an average of 9.3 prescriptions every year to help with their mental ill health.
Nov
2018
26
Fearful Labor Abandons Pill Testing Policy
Labor has put politics above keeping young people safe in their decision not to support the Misuse of Drugs Amendment (Drug Analysis) Bill 2018.