Media

PHIDU media mentions by year of publication

2024

• NSW life expectancy: The average age of death in every NSW suburb by Jake McCallum, The Sunday Telegraph: September 22, 2024 available here.
• Alarm at latest national road toll figures, ABC Listen, January 29 2024
  https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/worldtoday/alarm-at-latest-national-road-toll-figures/103400722

2023

• Disadvantaged and remote communities bear the brunt of Australia's road toll, ABC RN Breakfast, December 27 2023
  https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/radionational-breakfast/road-toll-data-disadvantaged-remote-indigenous/103265400

• Geelong’s alarming pregnant smoker stats revealed, Geelong Advertiser, August 29, 2023
  https://www.geelongadvertiser.com.au/news/geelong/geelongs-alarming-pregnant-smoker-stats-revealed/news-story/cea12625e152367e0dce10b9425e37ea

• Geelong’s north suffers poor health outcomes, PHIDU data shows,Geelong Advertiser, May 23, 2023
  https://www.geelongadvertiser.com.au/news/geelong/geelongs-north-suffers-poor-health-outcomes-phidu-data-shows/news-story/61846666912c8e2c0c338b696d100cb0

• Entrenched nature of poorer health among Aboriginal and other disadvantaged people, 9:25am, 27 February, ABC Radio Adelaide; Simon Royal interviews John Glover available here.

2022

• Test your brain health at home, Western Plains App, October 20, 2022
  https://westernplainsapp.com.au/news/news/test-your-brain-health-at-home?id=634e68285f1f03002c9dfc99

• Your pay, postcode and parents affect your heart disease risk, The Conversation, July 11, 2022
  https://theconversation.com/your-pay-postcode-and-parents-affect-your-heart-disease-risk-183125

• ‘Massive health gaps’: the Sydney electorates where voters live an extra decade, Sydney Morning Herald, May 13, 2022
  https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/massive-health-gaps-the-sydney-electorates-where-voters-live-an-extra-decade-20220508-p5ajla.html
  • Previous edition: Federal election 2016: Death rates by electorate, June 28, 2016
    https://amp.smh.com.au/politics/federal/federal-election-2016-death-rates-by-electorate-20160628-gpti2g.html

• Risk of dying mapped onto federal electorates, ABC Health Report, May 9, 2022
  https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/healthreport/

• The Sydney suburb with one COVID case for every two people, Brisbane Times, April 3, 2022
  https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/the-sydney-suburb-with-one-covid-case-for-every-two-people-20220401-p5aa4l.html

• And as for who is catching the virus, there's some really interesting research looking at who caught it in earlier waves versus who is catching it in this most recent surge, ABC Coronacast, March 30, 2022. Click here to access the full transcript.

• How socioeconomic status is impacting take up of third COVID booster dose (msn.com) and ABC News, March 24, 2022
  https://www.msn.com/en-au/health/medical/a-fourth-covid-19-vaccine-dose-is-on-the-horizon-but-victoria-s-booster-rate-remains-stubbornly-low/ar-AAVq99W?ocid=Peregrine

2021

• ‘No surprise’: The young and poor most likely to get a COVID fine, Sydney Morning Herald, November 23, 2021
  https://www.smh.com.au/national/victoria/no-surprise-the-young-and-poor-most-likely-to-get-a-covid-fine-20211111-p5985s.html

• COVID-19 vaccination rates are still low in disadvantaged and multicultural communities, despite borders reopening, ABC News, November 22, 2021
  https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-11-22/covid-19-vaccination-rates-still-low-in-some-communities/100637880

• The Nationals don’t give a damn about the regions. Here’s the proof, Crickey, October 18, 2021
  https://www.crikey.com.au/2021/10/18/nationals-abandon-regions/

• Stark divide: disadvantaged areas of Victoria have worst Covid vaccination rates, The Guardian, October 1, 2021
  https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/oct/01/stark-divide-disadvantaged-areas-of-victoria-have-worst-covid-vaccination-rates

• Vaccine passports risk disadvantaging poor, Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and Brisbane Times, September 28, 2021
  https://www.smh.com.au/national/victoria/vaccine-passports-risk-disadvantaging-poor-20210927-p58v0q.html

• Trading Covid freedoms in NSW, Pearls and Irritations, September 2, 2021
  https://johnmenadue.com/trading-covid-freedoms-in-nsw/

• The value of Census data: A health perspective, July 2021
  A promotional spot for Nova FM radio, broadcast from 5 July 2021

• The 2021 Census and the Public Health Information Development Unit (PHIDU): A case study, July 2021.
  Interview by Jane Hansen (Sunday Telegraph) with Andrew Henderson (ABS Census spokesman) and John Glover (Director, PHIDU), recorded 20 July 2021

• We die Sooner, terribly much sooner, Alice Springs News, February 28, 2021
  https://alicespringsnews.com.au/2021/02/28/we-die-sooner-terribly-much-sooner/

• Long-lived lands of the inner south and Vaccination rates below average in inner-city suburbs, Sunday Canberra Times January 31, 2021
  Copy not available without a subscription.

• ‘A shame on our city’: The yawning gap in lifespans across Sydney, Sydney Morning Herald, January 27, 2021
  https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/a-shame-on-our-city-the-yawning-gap-in-lifespans-across-sydney-20210124-p56wgp.html
  Note: the publication of this article resulted in additional radio interviews.