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Did you catch the latest @CroakeyNews e-bulletin with a focus on unhealthy policies?

If not, no worries, here's a thread on this week's readings.

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Don't miss this article on #RoboDebtRC in which this week's quotable comes from:

"The Robodebt debacle was the very opposite of healthy public policy – it was extraordinarily unhealthy public policy" – @baumfran

#AusPol

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Also with comments from

@SharonFrielOz – "disempowerment is incredibly bad for people’s health"

@joanne_flavel – "#Robodebt was the antithesis of the purpose of income support"

#auspol

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.@pankaranikolas & @TZirnsak call for improved data and reporting on LGBTIQ+ experiences of coercion in mental health settings.

"The RC recognised that the mental health system is “unresponsive” to the needs of LGBTIQ+ people," they write.

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"In other words, it lifts directly from the Australian handbook when it comes to punitive refugee policy" – Michelle Foster & Katie Robertson on UK's Illegal Migration Bill, first published in @ConversationEDU

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Croakey editor @AlisonSBarrett reported from @adelwritersweek, covering sessions on the #VoiceToParliament, media moguls and #Climate.

#ADLWW

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"As Queensland Government launches Inquiry, public health leaders call for stronger regulations on vaping" – @AlisonSBarrett summarises recent articles on vaping by @DrBFreeman @SimonChapman6 & @joninejancey

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"There is a strong desire to adapt creatively to the challenges of an uncertain climate" – Declan Kuch, Malini Sur, Stephen Healy & Sukhmani Khorana, first published in @ConversationEDU

#NSWVotesHealth2023

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"“The responsibility lies squarely at the feet of elected policy-makers who have stood by & allowed industry to use addiction for profit-making,” @_PHAA_ CEO @terryslevin Slevin writes in an open letter to NSW Labor MPs.

#NSWVotesHealth2023

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Catch up with news you may have missed in the latest ICYMI column compiled by @mariemcinerney & @MelissaSweetDr

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Leading child health experts share their thoughts on the Australian Government’s Early Years discussion paper.

@mariemcinerney
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“It is only by ignoring the costs of war – human, economic, environmental and other – that preparations for the next one can be announced with such triumphalism and pride" – @SueWarehamACT @MAPW_Australia

#AusPol #AUKUS

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