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EDITORIAL: The 'shocking' Royal Commission and the banking mafia

The most shocking thing about the Banking Royal Commission is how shocked so many profess to be by ...  
To tackle obesity, Australia needs to look to culture

Before our waistlines shift, we need a culture shift.  
Lucas Heights nuclear reactor: The untold threat of the Sydney bushfires

As fires raged in Sydney, there hasn't been a peep about the fire hazard to Lucas Heights nuclear ...  
Why is it so hard to delete Facebook?

People are concerned about how their data will be used but few contemplate permanently deleting ...  
The ACCC and Liddell: Just opinion and no facts

AGL is filling the role abdicated by the Turnbull Government and the ACCC by recognising the ...  
Private insurance: Rising premiums and the truth behind it all

With private health insurers seeing double-digit profits in a dormant economic times, all their ...  
Koala wipe out: Government apathy and the STD killing our national icon

Koalas are in big trouble with disease now rampant in wild populations.  
Government climate policy: Do Australians need to be protected from it?

Australia needs an independent national agency charged with safeguarding the environment and ...  
Health implications of Coalition's energy policy

The Turnbull Government's NEG is causing deaths and illness, right now, in Australia and global ...  
Australia's dysfunctional health system

The AMA, colleges, representative bodies of other health practitioners, politicians and media are ...  
OPEN EDITORIAL: The Canberra divide and the power paradox

Two events over the past week bespeak the chasm between the political class and the public.  
Health Ministers may be in office but they are seldom in power

John Menadue proposes some suggestions to reform Australia's health care system in order to place ...  
Cricket, grog and junk food: A recipe for obesity

As Australia's obesity rate balloons, Australian cricket continues to be sponsored by alcohol and ...  
Can a city's health and wealth really grow on trees?

Planting more urban forests is a simple way not only to improve the health of a city’s people ...  
STUDY: Long-term health risks of Monsanto's Roundup revealed

New research suggests Monsanto's Roundup weedkiller may alter the human microbiome, leaving us ...  
Stopping trauma in its tracks

Gerry Georgatos shares excerpts of his research into the effects of trauma and a radical altern ...  
#1 TOP IA STORY OF 2017: HELEN CALDICOTT: The Fukushima nuclear meltdown continues unabated

This disturbing article about a virtually forgotten, yet ongoing, tragedy by renowned anti-nuclear ...  
Plane crash review: Are Australia's aviation bureaucrats endangering lives?

Aviation would be safer if the regulators realised that pilots aren't suicidal and acted as ...  

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