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One in 15 hospitalisations in Australia could have been avoided with better early health care

AAP - 06-02-2020

New figures show, one in 15 hospitalisations in Australia could have been avoided with better preventative health care.  An Australian Institute of Health

 
New federal government alcohol guidelines recommend having no more than 10 standard drinks in a week

AAP - 17-12-2019

New federal government draft alcohol guidelines recommend having no more than four standard drinks on any one day and no more than 10 standards drinks in a week.

 
New research claims drinking and smoking bans saved 36,000 lives

AAP - 27-11-2019

A new study says key health policies on alcohol and tobacco prevented more than five per cent of total cancer deaths in Australia between the 1960s and 2013.

 
A bill to reform South Australia's abortion laws will be presented to state parliament

AAP - 04-11-2019

As SA remains the last state in the nation to decriminalise abortion, hundreds have rallied to give local MPs a push to support bills before parliament.

 
When politicians become lobbyists, they really can be bad for your health

AAP - 25-09-2019

Think you are sick to death of politicians? When they later become lobbyists they really can be bad for your health, a new study says. Some Australians

 
SA Health cuts public hospital jobs

AAP - 06-09-2019

SA Health is offering voluntary redundancies across major public hospitals in Adelaide, with up to 1100 jobs possibly cut. Voluntary redundancies

 
Youth discounts fail to keep young people in private health insurance

HealthTimes - 05-09-2019

It was a key plank of what was dubbed the most significant package of private health insurance reforms

 
Public drunkenness no longer a crime in Victoria

AAP - 23-08-2019

Public drunkenness will be decriminalised in Victoria on the eve of a coronial inquest into the death of an Aboriginal woman who died in police custody.

 
Majority of Australians support the federal government's mandatory vaccination policy

AAP - 03-07-2019

Joint research from the University of Sydney and the University of Western Australia indicates a majority of Australians support the "No Jab, No Pay" policy.

 
The Victorian government births bill allows gender choice

AAP - 18-06-2019

The Victorian government is again trying to reform the birth certificate regime in favour of trans, gender diverse and intersex people. Trans,

 

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