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Alison Barrett

Adelaide

Managing Editor at Croakey News

Managing editor (P/T) @CroakeyNews. Sharing news about public health and other health-related matters. Also at @alisonsbarrett.bsky.social

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  • Pacific Islands focus: health sovereignty, polio outbreak and regional relationships

    2 weeks ago | croakey.org | Alison Barrett

    Introduction by Croakey: As we wait to hear whether Australia will co-host COP31 climate negotiations next year with Pacific Islands nations, Vanuatu’s climate minister Ralph Regenvanu has expressed disappointment about the Federal Government’s decision to extend the life of Woodside’s North West Shelf gas project. “This is not the leadership we want to see from Australia, if they are to be the host of COP at the same time,” Regenvanu told The Guardian.

  • Ahead of sonographers’ conference, concerns raised about non-medical pregnancy ultrasounds

    3 weeks ago | croakey.org | Alison Barrett

    Introduction by Croakey: Workforce pressures, scope of practice, and critical regulatory issues are some of the topics up for discussion at the 31st Annual International Conference of the Australasian Sonographers Association (ASA) in Naarm/Melbourne from 13-15 June. The conference, with the theme ‘Educate, Evaluate, Celebrate’, will also have a big focus on communication with patients and person-centred care. Below, Marie McInerney previews the conference for Croakey Conference News Service.

  • National auditors find Measuring What Matters “lacks arrangements to meet policy objectives”

    3 weeks ago | croakey.org | Alison Barrett

    Introduction by Croakey: A recent audit of the Measuring What Matters Framework has found it did not have arrangements in place to assess if the framework was meeting its policy objective – to track Australia’s progress “towards a more healthy, secure, sustainable, cohesive and prosperous Australia”.

  • In a country wedded to fossil fuels, what would an Australia-Pacific climate conference look like?

    3 weeks ago | croakey.org | Alison Barrett

    Introduction by Croakey: An Australia-Pacific COP31 offers an opportunity for Pacific Island voices on climate action to be platformed and for international pressure to influence Australia’s transition away from its reliance on fossil fuels, according to Isabelle Zhu-Maguire, PhD candidate at the Coral Bell School of Asia and Pacific Affairs, Department of International Relations within the Australian National University.

  • Affirming our power and enduring love as First Peoples: the Lowitja O’Donoghue Oration 2025

    1 month ago | croakey.org | Alison Barrett

    *** Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that this article mentions people who have passed ***Introduction by Croakey: In delivering the 2025 Lowitja O’Donoghue Oration, Romlie Mokak, Djugun man and a member of the Yawuru people, considered the importance of love and its effect on policy, language, power and closing the gap.

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