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Media Releases & Advocacy Papers
Spinifex lobbies Treasury in a pre-budget submission
The Spinifex Network was pleased to provide a submission for the 2020–21 Federal Budget this week. The submission proposes three years of funding for the Spinifex Network and a work plan with three overarching objectives to: Embed regional, rural and remote priorities...
Evaluating telehealth for rural and regional Australia
The role of telehealth in its widest sense has been increasingly a focus of health services and implementation research as a valuable mode of rural service delivery. The advent of COVID and the need to provide services at a safe distance led the Minister for Health to...
Australia’s medical researchers unite in the Red Centre for rural health
In a move not seen before, institutions from across Australia are banding together to find new ways to use research to help rural people. Facing an unrelenting drought and the impact this has had on mental health, employment and community survival, rural and regional...
Spinifex Network in the Media
We can’t let the medical fund bubble burst
NSW Regional Health Partners’ Director, Christine Jorm, collaborated with Warren Payne, Executive Director of the Western Alliance Academic Health Science Centre, and Chips Mackinolty, Director of Central Australian Academic Health Science Network, to share their...
Governments ‘tin-eared’ to the importance of regional health sector
Professor Christine Jorm and Dr Lou Conway recently shared their thoughts on the important role of health as an employer for our regional economies in the Canberra Times. Even in this strangest of years, if you live outside Victoria, you can still spend a couple of...
Regional Australia ‘sidelined’ in medical research
The Spinifex Network featured in the The Times Higher Education on 9 March 2020. More than 50 regionally based Australian universities and health agencies have joined forces to demand greater involvement in medical research, saying that the needs of the bush are...
Rural researchers are joining forces at Spinifex Symposium to improve health outcomes for people living in regional areas
The Spinifex Network has recently been featured in the Newcastle Herald. People living in rural communities are getting a raw deal when it comes to health research. But this week, academics from the University of Newcastle and the University of New England are among...
National Spinifex Symposium in Alice Springs to feature drought and rural mental health
The Spinifex Network has been featured in the NACCHO Aboriginal Health News Alerts. In a move not seen before, institutions from across Australia are banding together to find new ways to use research to help rural people. Facing an unrelenting drought and the impact...
Australia’s medical researchers in Centre for rural health
The Alice Springs News has published a letter to the editor about the Spinifex Network. In a move not seen before, institutions from across Australia are banding together to find new ways to use research to help rural people. Facing an unrelenting drought and the...