Health
Why I am taking a break from Twitter

Twitter can remain a place of rich debate if we refuse to accept simplistic solutions to difficult ...  
Eleven ways to prevent another COVID catastrophe

A global report released on Wednesday highlights massive global failures in the response to ...  
Move to lift COVID precautions raises suspicions

The decision to reduce COVID isolation periods is one that defies common sense and seems shrouded ...  
Letting standards slip: Qantas reels from repeated failures

The list of Qantas' sins is lengthy and growing with diseased relish.   
KERRYN PHELPS: Dropping COVID safeguards is just a bad idea

With the next variant just around the corner, the rush to reduce the isolation period for COVID ...  
NDIS: Bad help not better than no help at all

The NDIS is pumping feel-good stories through social media channels at a robust rate, but for ...  
Liberal irresponsibility to blame for Victoria's COVID-19 resurgence: FLASHBACK 2020

In this article from 2020, John Wren examined how Andrews did his best to combat COVID-19 amid ...  
Farewell to Olivia Newton-John, Australia’s sweetheart

Olivia Newton-John, affectionately known as “Australia’s sweetheart” and “our Livvy” ...  
Child sexual abuse: One man's story of trauma and transformation

When a trusted adult abuses a child, the cumulative trauma of decades of silence that often ...  
Conservative Kansas votes clear 'NO' to abortion ban

Kansas voters have rejected Republican efforts to cancel the state's constitutional right for ...  
Chief Medical Officer's COVID comment leaves the vulnerable gasping

After CMO Paul Kelly recently likened COVID deaths to "reaping", a disabled woman tells of how sh ...  
Governing for the people: Gough had the guts to get things done

As we approach the 50th anniversary of the election of the Whitlam Government, what would Gough do ...  
Data in the dark: A look at COVID corruption

The global pandemic has proven to be a breeding ground for corruption, with "urgency of resp ...  
Absence of mandates means no end in sight for pandemic

Politicians seem to have abandoned plans to stop the COVID-19 pandemic from continuing to wipe us ...  
Labor should have fixed energy crisis already, say Andrews and Hughes

Expect the Liberal Party's "women of calibre", Karen Andrews and Hollie Hughes, to be taking it ...  
Why patient access to healthcare in Australia is so unfair

The complex fragmentation of Australia's health system affects the availability of patient data to ...  
Why the poor suffer poor health: A capitalist legacy

'Inflamed: Deep Medicine And The Anatomy Of Injustice' reveals a critical observation — that ...  
FLASHBACK 2021: Morrison's handling of COVID-19 a series of failures

COVID-19 is spiralling out of control once again in Australia, a problem that should have been ...  

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