Thread by @CroakeyNews

Croakey's quote of the week comes from Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General of the @UN

"Let's stop sleepwalking towards the destruction of our planet by climate change. Today, it is Pakistan. Tomorrow, it could be your country."

#ClimateEmergency

Last week's @CroakeyNews bulletin included stories about unhealthy advertising to children, Jobs & Skills Summit, National Cabinet changes to COVID isolation & Thomas Mayor’s Vincent Lingiari Memorial Lecture.

Read🧵for all of last weeks' news....

“Aboriginal Community Controlled RTOs are essential to ensuring Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people have culturally appropriate training option which is critical to building a strong, skilled workforce for ACCHOs & broader health sector" - @AHCSA_

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"Addressing the mental health and wellbeing of Australian youth must be high on the agenda for the Albanese Government, including through the Strengthening Medicare Taskforce" - @LRussellWolpe in her latest Health Wrap
#AusPol

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"Sitoula told Croakey it would help if State-based laws legislated against advertising of unhealthy products because 'it is easier for municipalities to enforce them'" - @alisonsbarrett #FoodFight

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"We need to broaden the scope of practice for some health workers, engage in better workforce planning, and reform how existing and new resources are deployed" - Professor Henry Cutler

#JobSummit2022

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"With the Jobs and Skills Summit being held this week, the complexity of matching and forecasting the needs, demands and supply of the health workforce is once again in the spotlight" - @KylieWoolcock @AusHealthcare

#JobSummit2022

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"Even if the gate was open, however, it is implausible that the tens of thousands of people a year needed to address aged care workforce shortages could be found, given the global scarcity of care workers" -@CharlesAndrewMK

#JobSummit2022

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"Presaging the Andrews Government announcement, Bandt said free training for nurses and the abolition of current nursing education debt was an important piece of the puzzle" - @coopesdetat

#JobSummit2022 #NNF2022

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"To all our mob in the many different ways we are fighting to overcome the challenges that are uniquely ours in this country, I acknowledge you have never given up" - @tommayor11

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ICYMI column: Pakistan in crisis, global health updates, some big research news and TikTok moves on healthcare - compiled by @MelissaSweetDr

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"Why does political transparency matter for health? In Australia, as many countries around the world, powerful corporations try to influence govts to favour their interests & often corporate interests run counter to public health"-Dr Jennifer Lacy-Nichols

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"Those working in the Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander health sector have always known that politics cannot be separated from health. Our peoples have a holistic, collectivist worldview" - @JanineMilera & Jessica Szwarcbord @LowitjaInstitut

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"National Cabinet moved to reduce the minimum isolation period for people infected with SARS-CoV-2 from seven to five days, as data suggested COVID-19 was on track to be Australia’s third-leading cause of death in 2022" - @coopesdetat

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"An important reason why health experts should be at the #JobSummit2022 table is because unfairness in the labour market impacts upon some Australians much more than others and is likely to directly and indirectly affect health" - @MiriamDVDBerg

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