This report examines the current state of Australia’s rare disease policy landscape, identifying policy gaps, and provides eight recommendations aimed at ensuring all Australians living with a rare disease experience health equity. While each disease may be ‘rare’, collectively, rare diseases affect up to 8% of the Australian population.

Australia’s immunisation landscape is rapidly shifting. This position statement reaffirms immunisation as the most effective public health intervention and calls for renewed efforts to rebuild trust, improve access and boost vaccination rates across all communities. It outlines barriers to implementation and highlights the urgent need for new strategies to boost immunisation rates.

Patient enrolment with a general practice is one element of recent health care reforms in Australia. A previous review on primary care enrolment schemes found substantial variations in their characteristics. This review developed a typology informed by the qualitative analysis of 15 schemes in 12 high-income countries for effective comparisons and informed policymaking.

This strategy aims to reduce the incidence of, or maintain elimination status of, vaccine preventable diseases by improving immunisation access, acceptance and increase demand and uptake by enhancing the systems that provide and support immunisation service delivery. It serves as a road map to strengthen programs and partnerships to improve Western Australian state capacity to...

This report examines cross-jurisdictional health reform, collaboration and government consultation with remote, rural and regional communities in New South Wales. It finds that rural and remote primary care is in crisis and proposes a pathway forward to facilitate reform. The report presents 12 findings and 18 recommendations.