🔔 NEW in the Medical Journal of Australia National consensus statement on opioid agonist treatment in custodial settings ✍️ Jocelyn Chan, Jon Cook, Michael Curtis, Adrian J Dunlop, Ele Morrison, Suzanne Nielsen, Rebecca J Winter and Thileepan Naren OPEN ACCESS buff.ly/jNuWZVb

Happy International Women's Day. May we challenge the systems that undervalue us, overwork us and keep us "lesser than". And may one day, Medicare pay me as much as the taciturn man-doc in the room next door. #genderpaygap #medicare #medsky #slowmedicine @racgp.bsky.social

My latest publication - journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

This is one (of many) reasons why I love my 1996 #Landcruiser

Could the media please stop breathlessly reporting the "growing cost" of the #NDIS? This is a vile IPA/LNP/NewsCorp message. It treats Australians with disabilities as a "burden" on society. [This headline is from 2018. That's how long they've been pushing this grubby narrative.] 😠 #auspol

Once more, for the folks at the back: Children are not widgets. Schools are not factories. Education is not a business. Saving money is not the ultimate goal of education. Education is an INVESTMENT in our collective future. #OntEd

If this is true - that "unhurried conversations are a fulcrum around which effective health care operates" - (spoiler: It is definitely true) - then Medicare is an incentive to the enshittification of health care in Australia.

Such good news www.nsw.gov.au/ministerial-...

Great news!!!

If Gina owned the sun, Dutton would support solar. #auspol #nuclear #renewables #energy #fossilfuels #ClimateAction

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Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer had a very shiny nose. Other signs of his alcoholism included dizziness and chronic reckless behavior.

This is really interesting, but completely focussed on the individual. No mention of food security, employment, housing, poverty. "Lifestyle therapy" can surely only work where you have favourable social determinants of health.

Russian war crimes, too. What a world we live in.

‘Drugs are bad becomes people who use drugs are bad’ NSW Drug Summit 2024. ‘I worry that people will find out - I become Megan the drug user, this robs us of our humanity, you can’t help but absorb this shame…the fundamental sense of being wrong and not belonging…’ Megan Moses

NSW Drug Summit 2024.Prof Dan Howard

Hon Mark Butler MP speaking at GP24, ‘too many Australians are finding it too hard to get into see a GP’ he says the government has a laser light focus on this, increasing bulk billing rates, increasing doctor numbers with increased overseas trained doctors working in Australia, and mymedicare

Dr Nicole Higgins- addressing GP24- General Practice is the beating heart of the Australian Health System @racgp.bsky.social