In this Issue, we present to you eight articles in total. Six articles are from colleagues in Western Australia, Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia that address issues either of common interest across Australia, or that report on specific practices within a particular State that have a potentially wider application. In addition, we present an article from a colleague in India that describes an important issue for that country’s health system around health insurance coverage. We conclude our Issue with a descriptive and qualitative study from Bangladesh that goes to governance and decentralisation of health services in that country.