We chat to health journalist Melissa Sweet. Melissa has been covering the rapid changes sweeping through our health system for Croakey and The Guardian. In this episode, she talks about the ways telehealth breaks down some of the long-standing barriers to health, but it also builds a few new ones.

Croakey is an independent Australia news website providing in-depth journalism into public health.

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