While the government’s push to ban non-therapeutic vapes has been heavily supported by public health bodies, it has split the Coalition over female voters, the blackmarket and Barnaby Joyce.
As Australia struggles with a surge in calls for help to domestic violence services, treatment programs for violent men are also struggling to meet demand.
While women express fear and anger over the many already murdered this year, national cabinet’s resolutions have failed to confront the ways in which activities such as sport, gambling and drinking can exacerbate male violence.
Sales reps for surgical hardware companies are becoming a common presence in operating theatres – selling medical devices, sometimes without the consent of unconscious patients.
The plight of an Iranian man who died after years of incarceration in Australian detention centres continues to haunt friends who are seeking compensation for their own time in detention.
Services Australia is failing to acquit its basic functions as it waits for a legal decision that could force it to wipe hundreds of millions of dollars in alleged debts.
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Almost four years after announcing it would establish a safe injecting room in Melbourne’s CBD, the Victorian government has been accused of lacking the courage to follow through on its promise – with scores of deaths continuing.
The NDIS is on the brink of its biggest-ever restructure, and people in the disability community are concerned that the earliest reforms in a sweeping agenda may leave many who rely on the service unsupported.
