Past NRHA Events and Seminars

Speakers at this breakfast included:

Ms Nicole O’Reilly – Chair, National Rural Health Alliance
Dr Ruth Stewart – National Rural Health Commissioner
Hon Warren Snowden MP – outgoing Friends Co-chair
Hon Warren Entsch MP – Friends Co-chair

Speakers at this breakfast included:

Ms Tanya Lehmann – Chair, National Rural Health Alliance
Professor Anthony Capon – Director, Monash Sustainable Development Institute
Professor Jenny May – Rural GP; Director, University of Newcastle Department of Rural Health
Dr Arnagretta Hunter – Physician; Cardiologist; Clinical Senior Lecturer, ANU Medical School

The first meeting of the group was a breakfast in Parliament House, hosted by the Parliamentary Friends of Rural and Remote Health and supported by the National Rural Health Alliance and the Royal Flying Doctor Service.

Speakers at this breakfast included:

Tanya Lehmann – Chair, National Rural Health Alliance
Martin Laverty – CEO, Royal Flying Doctor Service
Katherine Burchfield – Health Director, Royal Far West
Chris Moorhouse – Chair, Friends of the Alliance

Three prominent experts outlined key reform priorities in rural and remote health in an Address at the National Press Club of Australia.

These priorities include the need for greater fairness for the seven million Australians who live outside metropolitan areas, and the potential for increased productivity and economic growth if the disparities in health outcomes between rural and remote residents, and city residents, can be closed.