Health
Kathy Jackson’s get out of jail free card

Against the backdrop of escalating fraud claims and potential criminal action, Kathy Jackson is ...  
Why Australia should shut down the Lucas Heights nuclear reactor

Last week’s fire on a nuclear waste ship off Scotland shows why Australia’s Lucas Heights ...  
Required: A royal commission into AHPRA and the health profession

Experienced Queensland thoracic physician Don Kane says a Royal Commission is required to cure the ...  
Think for Yourself: Ebola

As the mainstream media takes a breath and prepares to launch into the next scare campaign, IA ...  
Australia sleepwalks towards a dangerous nuclear future

An informed democracy will behave in a responsible fashion, says Dr Helen Caldicott, however as we ...  
HIP Royal Commission submission (7): How the LNP/MSM lied about pink batts

The Royal Commission report into the so-called insulation program ‘disaster’ is expected ...  
HIP Royal Commission submission (Part 6): What inefficiency and waste?

Following his reports on economic stimulus in Independent Australia and elsewhere, Alan Austin was ...  
HIP Royal Commission submission (Part 4): Howard's dangerous non-regulation

The Royal Commission report into the so-called ‘botched pink batts rollout’ is due to be ...  
HIP Royal Commission submission (Part 3): Hundreds of lives saved

Alan Austin was requested to present a sworn statement of evidence to the Royal Commission into ...  
Think for Yourself: Vitamins

Resident IA critical thinker John Turnbull takes a look the multi-billion dollar vitamin industry ...  
Christmas Island child detainees: Australia's cruelty and inhumanity

Paediatrics Professor Elizabeth Elliott was invited by the Human Rights Commission to examine the ...  
NSW Workers Compensation changes restrict workers' rights

The NSW Government has proven that the focus of their Workers Compensation changes, was to cut the ...  
Stafford by-election shows up Campbell Newman's drunken shambles

This weekend's Stafford by-election distills all that is wrong with the shambolic Queensland ...  
Unchristian Kevin Andrews and his deadly DSP changes

A disability support pensioner says DSP changes foreshadowed by Kevin Andrews and the Abbott ...  
GP co-payment bodes ill for NT and Indigenous Australians

NT GP Dr Jessie Johnston says the proposed GP co-payment is very likely to result, in more disease ...  
TURC goes fishing for smoked ALP but only hooks Libs with Jackson

Last week, the Union Royal Commission went fishing for links tying the ALP with Big Tobacco ...  
Plain packaging works and tobacco advertising kills

With News Corp doing the tobacco industry's bidding to fight a rear-guard action against plain ...