Health
Recovery and the importance of hope

Independent Australia managing editor David Donovan talks about how hope helped him recover from a ...  
Recovery and the importance of hope

Independent Australia managing editor David Donovan talks about how hope helped him recover from a ...  
The Australian Aboriginal suicide epidemic

Australia’s First Peoples are suiciding at the world’s highest rates. Gerry Georgatos explains ...  
The anti-science about ionising radiation

Some people would have you believe that low level ionising radiation is perfectly safe; this is a ...  
Liberals and Conservatives — they really are different

Research shows conservative and progressive brains are physically different, with rightwingers ...  
Wind turbine syndrome: Farm hosts show no ill effects

Documentary on farmers who host wind turbines shows, writes Professor Simon Chapman, if wind ...  
Fukushima and the nuclear industry's fight against fear

Now that the Fukushima meltdown has faded from public consciousness, says Noel Wauchope, the ...  
Michael Douglas, Liberace and the cunnilingus factor

PERSONALLY,  I always thought that cunnilingus was the name for Ireland's national airline. by ...  
Blue murder at Wittenoom

With the Government under fire over asbestos safety concerns concerning the NBN, it should be ...  
David Suzuki: Bean leaves, bedbugs and biomimicry

Before the manufacture of dangerous pesticides, Dr David Suzuki reminds us, our forebears relied ...  
The Young Diggers and the dogs of peace

On ANZAC Day, Peter Wicks takes a look at a terrific organisation that’s helping returned ...  
David Suzuki says wind turbines not the problem

It's not wind turbines that affect human health and the economy, says Dr David Suzuki, but fossil ...  
Anti-wind farm lobby claims break all laws of physics

The case of the increasingly vocal lobby groups against wind farms in populated areas is based on ...  
Sarah Laurie's windfarm fearmongering enough to make you sick

In spite of 17 reviews and a new landmark study, Sarah Laurie defiantly continues her propaganda ...  
The obesity paradox

Australia is not doing enough for the almost one millions Australians who suffer from eating ...  
Tim Mathieson and the 'Asian Ladies' Syndrome

Tess Lawrence comments on Tim Mathieson's unfortunate turn of phrase about prostate examinations ...  
Crisis of confidence in public health

The crisis of public confidence in the administration of the public health can only be addressed ...  
Arresting the silent killer

Pancreatic cancer is one of Australia’s most deadly diseases. Amy Hosking and Julia Thiemann ...