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Jennifer Browne

@jennbrowne.bsky.social
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Senior research fellow, Global Centre for Preventive Health and Nutrition, Institute for Health Transformation, Deakin University, Australia.

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Marita Hennessy @maritahennessy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The influence of the pharmaceutical industry & the pharmacy sector on Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander health-a yarning study Troy Walker (Yorta Yorta), Alessandro Crocetti, Nichole Lister (Wonnarua), Karen Hill, Simone Sherriff (Wotjobaluk) et al academic.oup.com/heapro/artic... #CDoH #Pharma
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The influence of the pharmaceutical industry and the pharmacy sector on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health: a yarning study
Abstract. While pharmaceutical companies develop life-saving medicines and the pharmacy sector is integral to healthcare delivery, entities within the medi
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Health Promotion International @healthpromint.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
How well are the commercial determinants of health being translated into Australian policy? This study examines public health and health promotion policies across Australia, finding growing recognition, but limited regulatory action. academic.oup.com/heapro/artic...
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Jennifer Browne @jennbrowne.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Belting the disabled, protecting fossil fuel giants: That creaking sound is Albanese’s project under severe stress www.crikey.com.au/2026/04/24/n...
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Belting the disabled, protecting fossil fuel giants: That creaking sound is Albanese's project under severe stress
Anthony Albanese's goal as prime minister is to show voters the system can deliver for them, not special interests. It's been a very bad week on that front.
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Jennifer Browne @jennbrowne.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
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Keep VicHealth Independent and Strong for a Healthier Future #SaveVicHealth
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APSAD DAR @apsad-dar.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Alcohol Promotion via User-Generated Content on Instagram & TikTok: A Content Analysis Alessandro Crocetti, Nichole Lister, Florentine Martino @jennbrowne.bsky.social @kbackholer.bsky.social Peter Miller, Emma Jane Pristov @drmdunn1.bsky.social @deakinuniversity.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/dar....
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Jennifer Browne @jennbrowne.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Today’s privatised government services are tomorrow’s royal commissions. “When essential services fail their citizens, governments should not entrust the clean-up to private consultancies…A system corrupted by the unaccountable motive of profit isn’t repaired within that same logic.”
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Anthony Klan @anthonyklan.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
🚨Antisemitism boss Jillian Segal and her husband are the second biggest funders of far-right group "Advance". The extremist lobby group spreads online racism and xenophobia, including directly targeting Palestinians... theklaxon.com.au/hrgd
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Jillian Segal and husband funding far-right group "Advance" - The Klaxon
Antisemitism envoy Jillian Segal and her husband are among the biggest funders of far-right group "Advance”, which spreads hateful propaganda and racist tropes.
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Jennifer Browne @jennbrowne.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Yet we continue to pursue people on Centrelink payments www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...
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91 millionaires paid no tax, ATO data reveals
There were 91 Australians who earned more than $1 million in total income yet paid no tax in 2022-23, while Australia's highest earners live in Sydney's eastern suburbs, taking in Darling Point, Edgec...
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Osman Faruqi @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
It’s a very dark reflection on the state of Australian politics that Labor (including Albanese) seem more satisfied with defeating Bandt than Dutton. Progressive voters are tricking themselves into thinking this election was a great result, but Australia’s centre of gravity keeps going right.
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Jennifer Browne @jennbrowne.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
The real hate media
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Jennifer Browne @jennbrowne.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
The latest attack on science by the thought police
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Jennifer Browne @jennbrowne.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
“a logical outcome of the steady mainstreaming of far-right rhetoric in Australia, made palatable by sanitised political soundbites and monetised by media corporations, traditional and new, all too eager to bank the profits”
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Jonathan Green @greenj.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
The food we eat: a triumph of the military industrial complex. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
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Food fight — How war changed the way we eat - ABC listen
In times of war, food and nourishment can determine victory or defeat. Welcome to the world of military food. Armies once lived off the land, but now they can live off a sealed, freeze-dried pouch. Im...
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Anthony Klan @anthonyklan.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
The welcome to country was booed at the Melbourne dawn service. This group of bad actors, "Advance", has been aggressively sowing hate and division behind-the-scenes against the Indigenous ceremony. Advance is quietly funded by the Liberal Party. (ICYMI:) theklaxon.com.au/liberal-part...
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Liberal Party's "Advance" in Indigenous hate rant - The Klaxon
Mega-millionaire-funded disinformation group “Advance” has declared the Indigenous “Welcome to Country” is part of a secretive plan by “elites” to “delegitimise Australia’s history”.
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Jonathan Green @greenj.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Well done Nine papers, looking forward to your outrage at what happened this morning at the dawn service.
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Crikey @crikey.com.au · 19/04/2025
It's a lot of work, and not cheap either. So why bother? We're making a point.
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Crikey is running for Parliament. No, actually. Here’s why
We’re investigating all the loopholes and privileges afforded to sitting politicians and people running for office.
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DeSmog @desmog.com · 11/04/2025
🔴 NEW 🔴 Revealed: Meat Industry Behind Attacks on Flagship Climate-Friendly Diet Report A new document shows that vested interests were behind a “mud slinging” PR campaign to discredit the 2019 EAT-Lancet study. 📝 @clarecarlile.bsky.social
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Revealed: Meat Industry Behind Attacks on Flagship Climate-Friendly Diet Report
In January 2019, world-renowned food and nutrition experts published a groundbreaking study. The culmination of two years’ work by 37 authors, the EAT-Lancet report set out to answer the question: how...
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Crikey @crikey.com.au · 12/04/2025
Many politicians invest in industries such as mining and energy, banks, big supermarkets, gambling and alcohol. Crikey's Auspol Index shows you exactly who, when and what.
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Crikey's Auspol Index: Which politicians are investing in which companies? Search our database
MPs have influence over policy and are privy to non-public information. Yet they're free to trade in the sharemarket.
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Jennifer Browne @jennbrowne.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
If you thought Australian funded health research was safe from Trump style attacks and interference, have a look at what my Aboriginal colleagues leading an MRFF breastfeeding promotion project are facing: www.crikey.com.au/2025/04/09/i...
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A DOGE-like report called Indigenous health research 'wasteful'. Now the Coalition wants to cut it
Coalition attacks on a $1 million grant to improve Indigenous breastfeeding rates are at the centre of a campaign by right-wing group ADVANCE shown to millions of Australian voters.
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National Indigenous Times 🤖 (unofficial) @nit-bot.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
After the damaging impacts on the mental health of First Nations communities during the Voice referendum, Indigenous leaders and mental health experts are calling on politicians and the media to adopt "respectful, inclusive language" during the federal election campaign.
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18 months on from the Voice referendum, Indigenous mental health experts are pleading for respectful election campaign
After the damaging impacts on the mental health of First Nations communities during the Voice referendum, Indigenous leaders and mental health experts are calling on politicians and the media to adopt "respectful, inclusive language" during the federal election campaign.
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Health Promotion International @healthpromint.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
🔔 NEW at Health Promotion International Social media and the spread of misinformation: infectious and a threat to public health ✍️ Emily Denniss, Rebecca Lindberg OPEN ACCESS doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daaf023
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Jennifer Browne @jennbrowne.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
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UN urged to rule on Australia's 'racist' youth crime laws
Human rights lawyers and Aboriginal leaders lodge a complaint urging the United Nations to address Australia's "discriminatory" and "punitive" youth justice policies.
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Jennifer Browne @jennbrowne.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Victoria’s bail reforms won’t make communities safer www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/2025...
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Victoria’s bail reforms won’t make communities safer
ANALYSIS: Victoria’s bail reforms are a performative display of an embattled government pandering to law-and-order concerns – ultimately the new laws will make the community less safe.
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The Saturday Paper @thesaturdaypaper.com.au · 21/03/2025
Exclusive: In 2015, the AGS first provided legal advice the Community Development Program was likely unlawful. Leaked papers show successive government ministers and bureaucrats did nothing to stop ‘Black robodebt’.
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Exclusive: Leaked report shows warnings over ‘Black robodebt’
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The Saturday Paper @thesaturdaypaper.com.au · 15/03/2025
Built at a cost of more than $1 billion, an enormous new jail is empty more than two years later – with millions spent on leaky ceilings and malfunctioning security.
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Exclusive: Mass defects at $1 billion empty prison
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Martin White @martinwhite33.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Hello? #FollowtheMoney
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David Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Dutton targeting public servants is a false economy & it’s Australians who will pay the price - from veterans to communities dealing with increasing natural disasters. A good recap of what happened last time these frontline services were cut👇 @SatPaper www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/environ...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
On the upside, tiny violin stocks are booming.
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Jennifer Browne @jennbrowne.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Genuine food security requires more than supporting the agriculture industry to produce more food
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Jennifer Browne @jennbrowne.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
If major sporting codes are going to continue taking money from alcohol, gambling and junk food companies they should at least pay tax on it
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Jennifer Browne @jennbrowne.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
The good people at @crikey.com.au have navigated the frustrating FOI process to access and publish federal ministerial diaries. Politicians should be volunteering this information.
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Jennifer Browne @jennbrowne.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
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Alcohol and gambling firms donate to political parties multiple times. And new rules won’t stop them
When it comes to political donations from alcohol and gambling companies, the Australian public is often in the dark, research shows, despite recent reforms.
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Purplepingers ☭ @purplepingers.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
I wasn’t allowed to respond to Anthony on Q+A, so I’m doing it here x youtu.be/iZSaaV0igFo
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Labor does not have anything to offer renters this election.
YouTube video by Radical Online Leftist Pipeline Podcast
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Dr Tracy Westerman AM @drtracywesterman.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Yep
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Christian Petersen @iwantyoustudio.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
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Tim Schwab @timschwab.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
NPR *again* issues a long promotion of Bill Gates's memoir. This time NPR discloses that it's funded by @gatesfoundation ($25million). But really we need to get to a point where we end these odious financial conflicts of interest, not just disclose them www.npr.org/2025/02/21/1...
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New books from Reid Hoffman and Bill Gates look at tech revolutions past and future : NPR's Book of the Day
Reid Hoffman has invested in AI for years. The LinkedIn co-founder said he used AI to vet his new book, Superagency, written with Greg Beato, which makes an optimistic case for an AI-powered future. I...
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Jennifer Browne @jennbrowne.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Big Sport and Big Media in bed with Big Gambling
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Jennifer Browne @jennbrowne.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
In a country with frequent elections and compulsory voting our limited civics education leaves us open to disinformation and manipulation, undermining our democracy www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...
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Call for 'immediate overhaul' of curriculum after 'shocking' civics results
National test results show just 28 per cent of Year 10 students are proficient in civics.
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Jennifer Browne @jennbrowne.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Who profits when effective policies are taken away causing sales of cheap alcohol to go up? www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article...
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OPINION: The NT govt has scrapped their alcohol floor price. It flies in the face of evidence
Evidence shows that the alcohol floor price results in real reductions in alcohol related assaults and hospitalisations, writes Drs Cassandra Wright and Beau Cubillo
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The Saturday Paper @thesaturdaypaper.com.au · 13/02/2025
Right-wing lobby group Advance has spread misinformation during elections and used AI to generate misleading digital ads. And it’s benefiting from a Liberal Party fund, writes John Hewson.
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Truth in advertising should be an urgent priority
Clearly truth has been the first casualty of recent politics, both internationally and domestically. The issue that has been most distorted has been immigration.
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Jennifer Browne @jennbrowne.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Seventeen years after signing up to Closing The Gap, governments are not just neglecting their commitments – they are enacting policies that actively undermine them www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topi... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au
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Why the Closing the Gap strategy must be scrapped
Every year in February, it’s like clockwork. The prime minister of the day gets up in parliament to make a solemn speech about how the Closing the Gap targets are not on track. Government members blea...
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The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · 12/02/2025
The Albanese government has secured bipartisan support for a major new regime covering electoral donations and spending, after making significant concessions.
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Government-Coalition deal secures sweeping new regime for political donations and spending
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Jennifer Browne @jennbrowne.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Now an executive order to bring back plastic straws?!
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Jennifer Browne @jennbrowne.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
The fundamental problem is that housing has become a product and an investment market, rather than a human right www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...
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The fundamental problem with housing in Australia
If predictions come true it will be another year of deteriorating housing affordability, prices will rise at twice the rate of disposable income — something that that has been going on for 25 years an...
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Jennifer Browne @jennbrowne.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
About time www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...
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Albanese promises to lock grocery prices in remote stores to city prices
With grocery prices in remote communities costing double on average compared to capital cities, the federal government will lock the price of 30 essential products in remote stores to city prices.
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David Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
The great thing about being PM is you can make stuff happen if you want to. This PM has a bill to help protect our democracy from lies and AI in elections + a path to get it through the parliament next week - but he’s choosing not to take it.
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Jennifer Browne @jennbrowne.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
The Trump admistration’s crusade against diversity, equity and inclusion is a major threat to public health research and science communication, including in Australia www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/20129/...
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US censorship, funding cuts stymie Australian science research
With Robert F. Kennedy Jr nearing confirmation as US health secretary, Australian scientists are already feeling the effects of the new administration’s censorship and research funding cuts.
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Jennifer Browne @jennbrowne.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
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Misleading and false election ads are legal in Australia. We need national truth in political advertising laws
A loophole in the Electoral Act means it’s perfectly legal to lie to voters – as long as it doesn’t happen during official election campaigns.
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Prof Samantha Thomas @docsamantha.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
“Now is the time to strengthen our systems for addressing COIs, separating harmful industry funding from science, and acknowledging that public health research should seek to serve the public good, not the profit motives of vested interests.” Our latest editorial ⬇️ academic.oup.com/heapro/artic...
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Conflicts of interest in public health research and publications
Providing communities and knowledge users with reliable, independent, and evidence-based information has always been a core function of public health (Thom
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Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Imagine you were the richest man in the world. You could have anything you wanted, go anywhere you wished, do whatever took you fancy. How would you spend your weekend? Depriving the poorest people in the world of food and healthcare and boasting about it?
Elon Musk tweet: We spent the wekend feeding USAID
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