A taxing bodily function

28 Aug 2015 | "Tampon tax" to stay: Despite a colourful and sustained media campaign that drew international ...  

Worse than ice: Push to kill off killer alcohol during TV sports broadcasts

29 Jul 2015 | A new push out of Western Australia to reduce advertising for Australia's most dangerous drug on ...  

Bullies in Australia: Eating their young — and their not so young

29 Jul 2015 | A Gold Coast conference raises grave concerns about the structures and processes currently in ...  

The sorry state of our children's nutrition education

17 Jul 2015 | Many Australian schools are falling short in providing appropriate food and nutrition education to ...  

Think For Yourself: Antibiotic Resistance

11 Jul 2015 | Do you take antibiotics to cure a cold? IA critical thinker John Turnbull takes a look at the ...  

Immigration workers ask to be charged under new Border Force gag laws

1 Jul 2015 | Scores of current and former workers at Australia's immigration detention centres write an open ...  

Bullying just the tip of the iceberg in medical administration dysfunction

10 Jun 2015 | Bullying of junior doctors is only one part of Australia's dysfunctional system of health admin ...  

CSG is destroying the iconic Darling Downs along with residents' health

5 Jun 2015 | New York's acting Health Commissioner wouldn't let his family living in the vicinity of fracking ...  

Think For Yourself: Full Moon Fever

28 May 2015 | IA critical thinker John Turnbull takes a look at the popularly held belief that human behaviour ...  

Stop medical bullying — for patients' sakes

26 May 2015 | Medical bullying is not just a problem for women, or surgeons or even just the medical profession ...  

Extreme heat: 'Business as usual' life to end in less than 30 years in the U.S.

25 May 2015 | A new study projects that the United States will have a four to six-fold increase in extreme heat ...  

Chan and Sukumaran more casualties in our futile war on drugs

5 May 2015 | Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran are simply the latest the victims in the ill-conceived, pointl ...  

AGL's CSG blunders flare at Gloucester and expose EPA

15 Apr 2015 | AGL's dangerous flaring of wells at its Waukivory Road CSG field in Northern NSW has again demo ...  

No ice epidemic — but plenty of political fear-mongering

13 Apr 2015 | There is no doubt methamphetamine can cause harm, and no doubt most who work in drug policy aim to ...  

Dr Helen Caldicott: The truth about politics

16 Mar 2015 | In May 2011, Independent Australia was the first Australian news outlet to publish the truth that ...  

Healing Belle’s tall tales

16 Mar 2015 | Naomi Fryers knew alleged cancer faking fraudster Belle Gibson before she was (in)famous — and ...  

NSW Premier Mike Baird plays the coal mining exaggeration game

6 Mar 2015 | In response to a report on the costs and health effects of coal mining in the Hunter Valley, NSW ...  

Tony Abbott ... meet Dr Carl Jung

3 Mar 2015 | Prime Minister Tony Abbott's bruising psychoanalysis session with Sigmund Freud has left him angry ...