Health
Overcoming mental health challenges with self-compassion

Reflecting and giving affording yourself compassion is essential to managing your mental health ...  
Table tennis: One of the world's best brain sports

Table tennis is one of the world's most popular sports and has many little-known health benefits ...  
Wireless technology poses credible risk on wildlife

Research has exposed the risks posed by electromagnetic radiation from Wi-Fi and cell towers to ...  
Incarceration even more cruel to the neurodivergent

While imprisonment is a barbaric form of punishment, it's far more cruel to those suffering from ...  
Children casualties in war over gender transition

Activists and the media are turning trans issues into controversy instead of helping to find ways ...  
Nanoplastics: Small material causing huge problems

Plastic is in the air we breathe, the food we eat and the water we drink. How does it get there ...  
Truth about COVID origins remains unknown over three years on

Conflicting narratives around the origins of COVID continue to abound while we wait for more ...  
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Cost of being sucked in by criminal grifters more than just money

The latest life expectancy data is good news for Australians but bad news for Americans.  
Australia must get Medicare into its 132 prisons

Politically, it is a moral abomination that Medicare – which Australia touts as 'universal' ...  
Novak Djokovic is larger than tennis

Despite being ranked as the world's best male tennis player, Novak Djokovic's personality has made ...  
Locking in the benefits COVID offered to a troubled world

Among the positives to emerge from the global pandemic is an enhanced appreciation of quality of ...  
Aged care labor migration pathway full of 'risks'

More aged care workers are required, but there are questions over the new Aged Care Labour Agre ...  
Economic recovery: Many economies now booming post-COVID

The economic impact of the COVID pandemic varied greatly worldwide, yielding valuable lessons, as ...  
Pumpkin tortillas: Using leftover food wisely

Keeping an informed eye on food is essential in preventing waste and early expiration — it also ...  
It is time to question Australia's COVID-19 response

It seems that we have forgotten the pandemic or the lessons of the pandemic.  
Medicare reform requires radical thinking

With reports of GPs struggling to keep up with the costs of running their practices and increased ...  
Budget Labor-ing under the weight of expectation

The 2023 Budget offers cost-of-living relief and goes some way towards tackling entrenched poverty ...  
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'Capitalistic': It's time to re-design Medicare

Rather than enable capitalist business structures for GPs, Medicare should provide real governm ...  

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