How can there be a correlation between free speech and the eradication of poverty?

Regional Australians are not getting back from Medicare and private health insurance what they are putting into it, according to a Productivity Commission report released earlier this year. In a literal case of adding insult to injury, it is estimated that about $220 million a year of the Medicare levy collected in non-urban areas flows back to metropolitan services. Why?

The latest report from the Medical Deans of Australia and New Zealand shows that less than 18 per cent of final-year medical students intend to work in rural or regional practice after graduation.

CSU PhD researcher Ms Jodie Goldney has developed an online test to assess the personal attributes of prospective workers seeking employment in mental health.

Plans to stop recruiting doctors from overseas will worsen rural doctor shortages, according to Mr Mark Burdack, Executive Director of the Murray Darling Medical School initiative.

CSU welcomed the announcement that the new role of Rural Health Commissioner will be created if the Coalition wins government.

The Nationals failure to deliver on the 2013 election commitment to establish the Murray Darling Medical School was highlighted today with the announcement of funding for a new medical school in Gosford.

CSU Vice-Chancellor Professor Andrew Vann expressed disappointment tonight after the Murray Darling Medical School was once again overlooked in the Federal Budget.

A CSU academic has criticised the State Government for failing to ensure that older people in nursing homes are cared for by Registered Nurses (RNs).