@Meta
just removed one of my posts linking to a
@CroakeyNews
story. This has happened a few times lately. I've asked 4 a review.
This is appalling at any time, & esp in an era of misinfo & disinfo. The post is evidence-based health news.
@MRowlandMP
@StephenJonesMP
@ALeighMP
The WobbleBoarders. Southern lutruwita/Tasmania, this morning. Ratio of about 50 waves/toots/thumbs up to every thumbs down/head shake
#RoadsidePolling
#VoiceForHealth
With COVID-19 cases increasing in the community, some people, including people at higher risk of severe illness, may choose to wear a mask to protect themselves, such as when in indoor settings or on public transport. Be kind and considerate of someone’s choice to wear a mask.
On the eve of the federal election,
@RealOzSAGE
held a media briefing this afternoon urging coordinated national action to prevent COVID infections & reduce the toll. 999 COVID deaths reported in past 2.5 weeks; there may be 15,000-18,000 deaths from COVID this year, they warn.
So yesterday was a HUGE day for public health, not only in NSW but nationally, with widespread attention on how leaders marked the easing of public health restrictions.
#AusPol
#publichealth
#COVID
Australia will spend $485 million this year running its prison camp on Nauru, to maroon 22 refugees. Divided, it costs $22 million per person, per year to continue this gruesome charade. via
@SatPaper
Biggest crowd ever in nipaluna/Hobart for
#InvasionDay
rally, say organizers. The crowd asked to organise in a big circle ahead of a dance honoring Aboriginal women
#InvasionDay2020
#changethedate
Media focus on "winners & losers" in
#budget2020
coverage is problematic. We are all losers when
#ClimateCrisis
is not addresed. We are all losers when policies increase rather than seek to reduce inequalities. As the pandemic so powerfully reminded us.
#Budget2020health
Hopefully ABC will now include Greens and the teal Independents on election and current affairs panels. Tonight they’re missing the voices of the biggest story, limiting their coverage
#auspol
So what did we get? The NSW Premier in a pub, toasting "freedom" with nary a thought/mention for those experiencing anything but freedom
Also, breaking
#publichealth
regulations. But no fine for him, unlike so many others
It would take all day to list all the reasons why this is such disgraceful, unhelpful behaviour by so-called political leaders, not least at a time when COVID has exacerbated alcohol-related harm. What messages are they sending to the community, especially young people.
They could have invested in some public health promotions around how to minimise the risks of opening up – and not only around COVID. How to look after self and others while marking the occasion. Why getting blotto may not be the smartest response.
They could have staged their media events in a way that underscored the need for ongoing precaution and solidarity around looking out people most at risk from the opening up, including health workers and priority communities and populations
On the latest ABC job cuts - Paul Collins: "The whole process reflects an uncritical surrender to superficiality and anti-intellectualism. It sets the ABC on a course of complete irrelevance"
It was a day that called for careful, thoughtful messaging, about the ongoing need for caution and preventive efforts with COVID. Politicians could have used the Swiss cheese model of public health as so usefully employed by
@K_Eagar
in this article
“By reducing isolation and thereby increasing workplace transmission, we make the workplace less safe. The rights of people to a safe workplace must be considered alongside business continuity.”
The wobbleboarders getting lots of appreciative waves, toots and flashing lights, in southern lutruwita/Tasmania this morning. Only a few thumbs-down from the passing motorists
@CroakeyNews
Instead of spruiking “Omicron is mild”, govts should have been planning for the impact of a highly transmissible variant upon all systems: healthcare, education, social and essential services, supply chains etc
#auspol
#publichealth
#doyourjobs
As well as feeling so much for all those people who worked so hard for
#Voice
& rest of Uluru Statement, I am thinking of the Indigenous health organisations who supported
#Voice
as important for health & wellbeing - see some of them below.
First 2 people I've spoken with this week via Zoom are each sure they've had COVID; no easy access to PCR + issues with RATs availability. Both have health quals, both were miserably ill at home, alone, & are slowly recovering. They won't be part of any official figures...
Also, as
@JudkinsSimon
pointed out, *now* is not the time for politicians to be setting the example that will likely increase the load on already-stressed emergency depts: Also it is *never" the time...
#MorningBeers
...Not a great health message from the NSW premier...have a morning beer! Meanwhile NSW HCW's were in PPE, working in crowded, under-staffed ED's/ICU's trying to save the lives of many (including quite a few with alcohol-induced illnesses..)
Meanwhile, COVID was recorded as cause of death for 1,108 people in the UK for the week ending 24 September. And literally millions of people are waiting for vital healthcare as COVID saps the system and workforce.
#NotFreedomDay
Given the significant implications for health & health equity of today's decision, it's timely to revisit this recent call by
@tarunw
for greater transparency around
#NationalCabinet
and pandemic policy making
#AusPol
#publicHealth
National Cabinet has agreed to end mandatory COVID-19 isolation from October 14. The pandemic leave payments will end on the same date. Financial support will remain for casual, aged care, disability care and aboriginal healthcare and hospital care workers.
@abcnews
#auspol
More on that, via
@Meera_Senthi
: From England, the message is clear. Address health inequalities, or they will worsen Something for the politicians to focus on, beyond their beers.
It would be unwise of the media to uncritically amplify
@ScottMorrisonMP
talking up the NSW response to
#COVID19
as part of his attack on
@DanielAndrewsMP
et al & the Victorian response. For starters...
@sunriseon7
Perhaps you could have Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander guests on your program regularly ie every week - would enrich your coverage enormously
Today, I spent most of the day on planes - first flights since March. I was shocked at how Covid unsafe it was. NO social distancing on the fully booked flights - passengers were packed in. Very little mask wearing - even among the staff.
Govts urged to mount public health campaigns on airborne risks, to promote mask wearing in all settings where transmission is likely, make high quality masks freely available + education campaigns to promote their use:
@RealOzSAGE
Amid unprecedented surge of COVID in NSW, a message from a worried
@Prof_NickTalley
&
@RealOzSAGE
"
#Omicron
is a real gamechanger" & we need to step up public health measures
Julian Assange is on a prison ward where there has been a COVID outbreak; is not able to leave his cell, not even to wash. He is at great risk, Jennifer Robinson tells
@TheAusInstitute
webinar. "it's a very serious situation"
#PIJmatters
#JusticeCOVID
@withMEAA
@MelissaLDavey
I liked the end of this speech by
@jacindaardern
"I have one final message. Be kind. I know people will want to act as enforcers. And I understand that, people are afraid and anxious. We will play that role for you. What we need from you, is support one another.
Large crowd in nipaluna/Hobart for
#DayOfMourning
#InvasionDay2021
#SurvivalDay
. Begins with songs and also a shared silence acknowledging those who died defending Country, communities, families.
#lutruwita
“We will not celebrate invasion of our Country”
Oh dear. Coca Cola is listed as a sponsor for a
@hw_queensland
'healthy food expo' tomorrow
This is a Qld Govt agency.
Just the sort of example that might feature in a commercial determinants of health expose...
cc
@CroakeyNews
@SandroDemaio
@MegBastard
Interesting interview,
@normanswan
speaks with immunologist Prof Christopher Goodnow, who is now recovering from heart failure following a COVID infection via
@ABCaustralia
They cite ABS data showing that of deaths occurring up to end of April this year, COVID was the underlying cause of death 89.8% of the time. Currently 761 active outbreaks in aged care. "We need to act to cut deaths" says
@RealOzSAGE
presentation today.
Interim Australian Centre for Disease Control will be led by Chief Medical Officer Professor Paul Kelly from 1 January next year, with the full ACDC expected to be operational by the end of 2024
This morning, people are gathering on Yinggarda Country in Carnarvon, Western Australia, to pay respects to Aboriginal people who were subject to medical incarceration on nearby remote islands from 1908-1919. Here they are beginning their commemorative walk
#lockhospitals2022
I have changed my Twitter handle because the name needed updating. Croakey is no longer a blog and also has its own Twitter handle:
#FF
@CroakeyNews
. Please tag/follow me
@MelissaSweetDr
Black Lives Matter protest organiser Paddy Gibson points out the contradicting nature of allowing thousands into shopping centres each day, only to rule a Covid-safe peaceful protest against entrenched racism illegal.
This evening, more than 100 people packed Huonville Town Hall, southern lutruwita, to hear clear, strong reasons to
#voteyes
- from Uncle Rodney Dillon, Bronwyn Englert &
@yes23au
director Dean Parkin - for greater accountability of govts & for better housing, health & education
The Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine
@ACRRM
encourages members to vote yes in support of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice to Parliament.
#AusPol
#RuralHealth
#RemoteHealth
According to the Parliamentary Petitions Committee, I am the 141,050th signatory on a petition started by
@MrKRudd
calling for a Royal Commission "to ensure a strong, diverse Australian news media"
#PIJmatters
@PIJF_au
Community leaders say there is a desperate need to translate the instructions of rapid antigen tests into languages other than English, amid fears people may be using them incorrectly and reporting false negatives.
@SBSNews
“My year as Victoria's deputy chief health officer: on the pandemic, press conferences and our COVID future cc
@CroakeyNews
@WEpi2021
#wcepi2021
Media outlets taking $ from people/organisations spreading misinformation during a
#publichealth
crisis are part of the problem - this is full-page today in
@themercurycomau
cc
@CroakeyNews