@AlisonSBarrett

Research assistant and casual academic teacher at Adelaide University.

 Kaurna/Adelaide
au.linkedin.com/in/missalisonsb
Joined October 2015
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Melissa Sweet@MelissaSweetDrOct 16
Award-winning documentary draws lessons from catastrophic flood events in Lismore - Croakey Health Media croakey.org/award-winning-do… By @AlisonSBarrett cc #HEAL2026

Award-winning documentary draws lessons from catastrophic flood events in Lismore

The trauma of climate-related disasters has long-lasting consequences for individuals and communities, with a documentary set in Australia's "flood capital"

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The PM did not once mention the imperative for peace in his Address to the Nation. Join us for a #CroakeyLIVE, from 5-6pm on 8 April, to talk #PeaceForHealth during #GPHW2026 Held with @MAPW_Australia as part of Global Public Health Week ex @WFPHA_FMASP eventbrite.com.au/e/peace-as…

Peace as Protection and Prevention: Health Systems and Conflict

This #CroakeyLIVE webinar is convened by the Medical Association for Prevention of War (Australia) and Croakey Health Media.

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Melissa Sweet@MelissaSweetDrApr 2
Replying to @AlboMP
@AlboMP did not once mention the imperative for peace in his Address to the Nation. Join us for a #CroakeyLIVE, from 5-6pm on 8 April, to talk #PeaceForHealth. Held with @MAPW_Australia & as part of Global Public Health Week ex @WFPHA_FMASP Register: eventbrite.com.au/e/peace-as…

Peace as Protection and Prevention: Health Systems and Conflict

This #CroakeyLIVE webinar is convened by the Medical Association for Prevention of War (Australia) and Croakey Health Media.

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Melissa Sweet@MelissaSweetDrJan 19
Changes announced at Croakey Health Media – a warm welcome to Adj Assoc Professor Fiona Martin & new members; and also big thanks to @AlisonSBarrett for a massive contribution over many years croakey.org/changes-announce… #PublicInterestJournalismMatters

Changes announced at Croakey Health Media

Hello Croakey readers! We are back on deck after an extended break. During our Summer Publishing schedule, we republished 60

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@yanisvaroufakisJan 9
Hello friends. I am Yanis Varoufakis stealing a few of your moments to tear up, in front of you, the invitation to appear in the 2026 Adelaide Writers’ Week to present my new book RAISE YOUR SOUL. I was looking forward to returning to Adelaide for what has been for decades a brilliant festival of books, ideas and debate. No longer. The Zionist Lobby destroyed it. By forcing the Board to disinvite fellow author Randa Abdel-Fattah. By identifying even Bob Carr, the former Premier of NSW and Australia’s former foreign minister, an individual “of concern”. By forcing the Director of Adelaide Writers’ Week, my marvellous, Jewish friend Louise Adler, to resign, they left me with no option other than to tear up my coveted invitation in public. As Louise says, friends and colleagues in the arts, beware of the future. They are coming for you.
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RECORDING: ‘The Deafening Silence - Vote No and the Status Quo’ with Prof Megan Davis AC, Geoff Scott, Aunty Pat Anderson AO & @BronFredericks - vimeo.com/1127053098. Story on webinar at: croakey.org/on-the-referendu…. #UluruStatement #VoiceTreatyTruth #Auspol #StayTruetoUluru ❤️
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National lessons from South Australia’s algal bloom crisis - @AlisonSBarrett previews discussions at next week's #HEAL2025 croakey.org/national-lessons…

National lessons from South Australia’s algal bloom crisis

Introduction by Croakey: A Senate inquiry into the devastating algal blooms in South Australia is due to report next Tuesday

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Ahead of our #PHCmatters brainstorming session from 4pm AEST today, here's a handy primer by @AlisonSBarrett: Taking a history of primary healthcare croakey.org/taking-a-history…

Taking a history of primary healthcare

Introduction by Croakey: Managing editor Alison Barrett spent much of this week reviewing more than 1,000 articles on primary healthcare

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ICYMI, last week @AlisonSBarrett reached out to 20 Australian health organisations, to determine who would be at the health-focused roundtable (held in Sydney today). Of the 11 that replied, none had been invited. croakey.org/a-note-to-the-tr… croakey.org/a-note-to-the-tr…
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Experts sound health alarm on algal bloom crisis, calling for climate action and comprehensive responses. By @AlisonSBarrett croakey.org/health-experts-s…
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Experts sound health alarm on algal bloom crisis, calling for climate action and comprehensive responses – Croakey Health Media croakey.org/health-experts-s… By @AlisonSBarrett

Experts sound health alarm on algal bloom crisis, calling for climate action and comprehensive...

The algal bloom crisis across South Australia should be treated as a disaster for health and a clear warning about

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Croakey News@CroakeyNews29 May 2025
Thanks to everyone who contributed to the discussion yesterday, 'protecting public interest journalism as a public health good' - panel members Prof @BronFredericks @normanswan Alex Cramb & @MelissaSweetDr & Assoc Prof Carmel Williams & CHiAPRT. Story to come via @AlisonSBarrett
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Our 8th most-read article in the first quarter of 2025: Five years ago today, Croakey published our first article on the novel coronavirus. What’s been learnt since? – croakey.org/five-years-ago-t… Big thanks to @AlisonSBarrett & all who contributed!

Five years ago today, Croakey published our first article on the novel coronavirus. What’s been...

Today marks five years since Croakey published our first article on what we were then calling the novel coronavirus, #2019nCoV:

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Chaos under Trump: on tariffs, health and inequalities croakey.org/chaos-under-trum… A special #LongRead by @AlisonSBarrett #AusPol #GlobalHealth #SDOH

Chaos under Trump: on tariffs, health and inequalities

Introduction: After United States President Donald Trump's so-called Liberation Day unleashed chaos and uncertainty upon the world, the nature and

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Next Federal Government urged to support self-determination and evidence-based Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander programs croakey.org/next-federal-gov… @AlisonSBarrett reports #AusVotes2025 #AusPol

Next Federal Government urged to support self-determination and evidence-based Aboriginal and...

Alison Barrett writes: A universal childcare system and culturally safe, place-based health education and training programs are some of the

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The #resilience lessons #NorthernRivers learned from the 2022 #flooding made a difference when 🌀 Alfred hit in 2025. A #SundayRead by @AlisonSBarrett in @CroakeyNews shows the importance of resilient community networks & emergency communication systems croakey.org/after-the-storm-…

After the storm: how Northern Rivers communities are leading disaster resilience

Introduction by Croakey: The storm may have passed, but for communities in the New South Wales Northern Rivers and south-east

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Four years ago I wrote my inaugural poem The Hill We Climb. Both when I wrote it and performed it, I did so while continuously reflecting on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr and Coretta Scott King’s legacy. I was (and am) blown away by how my words reverberated around the world; if anything, it proved to me that we honor King’s dream, by daring to dream big, and by, most importantly, daring to dream together. Only then will the loving fantasies of our better nature transform into reality. The work and fight for the dream persists, and what’s more, it is not just a fight, but fate—that perhaps we are as destined for this time as it is destined for us. What a worthwhile, powerful calling only we can answer. Here with you in the hill and the climb, and whatever light lies beyond, whatever light lies within. -Amanda
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Putting rural health, mental health and prevention on the Federal Budget agenda – By @AlisonSBarrett croakey.org/putting-rural-he… #AusPol #ElectionBudget2025

Putting rural health, mental health and prevention on the Federal Budget agenda

Introduction by Croakey: Election-year budgets bring particular opportunities and challenges for policy and advocacy, especially around health equity. Alison Barrett

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Subscriptions to the weekly @CroakeyNews bulletin increase to $100 from next Monday (20 January). Get in quick to secure the current rate ($80 per annum): croakey.org/subscribe-to-cro…

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Croakey subscriptions are an easy way to stay up to date with the latest Croakey articles.Each week, you will receive the

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Melissa Sweet@MelissaSweetDr15 Jan 2025
Here is how the @CroakeyNews homepage is reading as we work towards our first proper bulletin for 2025: croakey.org/ The splash story is from a #HEAL2024 workshop, 'Staying sane on the climate frontline'. #TheZap is hot off the presses.
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“While the politics may be complicated, the public health imperative is not complicated–action is needed to prevent further death, injury & suffering in Gaza”-Guy Gillor, Fiona Stanley, Rob Moodie, Sue Wareham etal gh.bmj.com/content/10/1/e016…

The role of public health professionals in addressing the health and humanitarian catastrophe in...

Gaza is in the midst of a health and humanitarian catastrophe,1 bringing an astronomical escalation in health needs. With annihilated health infrastructure,2 scarce or non-existent medical and health...

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