2023

December

• Engineered stone products linked to silicosis to be banned in Australia | The New Daily, 13 December
• Governments accused of 'sitting on their hands' as 10-year-olds are treated as criminals | SBS, 12 December
• Long COVID cases will likely increase with each new wave, so why are we closing clinics? | ABC News, 12 December 
• World first rotavrius study aims to reduce hospitalisation rates of Indigenous children | National Indigenous Times, 5 December

November

• Royal Australasian College of Physicians urges government to raise the age of criminal responsibility | National Indigenous Times, 30 November
• Physicians extremely disappointed in NZ Gov plans to repeal smokefree legislation | LiveNews, 30 November 
• Doctors urge new government to retain Te Aka Whai Ora Māori Health Authority | Stuff.co.nz, 29 November
• Building better care and support systems for people with ADHD: what will it take? | Croakey, 15 November

October

• Life altering condition thousands of Aussies might have without knowing | Yahoo News, 28 October 2023
• Joint health and medical groups push for NSW drug-testing trial | The Australian, 26 October 2023

September

• The places in New Zealand where patients are 100km from a doctor | The New Zealand Herald, 29 September 2023
• Australians are being urged to develop heatwave plans. Here's what you need to know | The Guardian, 21 September 2023
• Ahead of a grim summer, pressure mounts on Federal Government for effective climate action | Croakey, 21 September 2023
• Authority on kidney disease awarded prestigious medal | Otago Daily Times, 11 September 2023
• Big hopes for AI-driven digital stethoscope | Medical Republic, 8 September 2023
• GPs can't avoid weight chat, but stigma an issue | Medical Republic, 8 September 2023

August

• Need to integrate rehab services into cancer treatment: study | Hospital and Healthcare, 28 August 2023
• Answer for cancer patient's chronic fatigue | 2SER, 23 August 2023
• How structured exercise can help cancer patients | ABC PM, 22 August 2023
• Exercise key to post-cancer wellbeing, study finds | The Australian, 21 August, 2023
• There may be a cure for chronic exhaustion - and it isn't sleep | The Canberra Times, 21 August 2023
• Critical climate call: Over 100,000 doctors demand urgent action | Healthy Industry Hub, 3 August 2023 
• Infectious diseases, coughs and stress: Why doctors want 'urgent action' on this threat | SBS online, 2 August 2023  
• Medical colleges urge action to shore up health system against climate change | The Guardian liveblog, 2 August 2023
• Medical groups raise climate alarm | ABC AM, 2 August 2023
• Major concerns healthcare system unprepared for extreme weather events | ABC, 2 August 2023
• Health system 'unprepared' for next climate disaster | The Canberra Times, 2 August 2023 

July

• Nurse's touch can help patients avoid hospital return | The Canberra Times, 21 July 2023
• New research suggests nurse follow-ups could halve hospital readmissions | The Guardian liveblog, 21 July 2023
• Hospital patients benefit from nurse follow up after discharge, study finds | ABC The World Today, 21 July 2023

June

• Systems must do much better at caring for children in greatest need | Croakey, 21 June 2023
• Junk food ads targeted | ABC - The World Today, 19 June 2023
• Junk food advertising aimed at children the target of proposed law designed to tackle childhood obesity | ABC, 19 June 2023

May

• Stress disorder link to poor gut health among veterans | Canberra Times, 24 May 2023
• Paediatric waitlist 'crisis' leaves regional Victorian families desperate to access care  | ABC, 19 May 2023 
• Reactions to the Federal Budget | Croakey, 10 May 2023 

April

• Victoria will raise raise the age of criminal responsibility to 12. Here is what it means | SBS, 26 April 2023
• Victoria's age of criminal responsibility to rise from 10 to 12 | The Guardian, 25 April 2023
• RACP calls on Victorian government to raise age of criminal responsibility to 14 | The Guardian liveblog, 24 April 2023
• Calls to reinstate telehealth, a lifeline in the bush| Newcastle Herald, 21 April 2023
• Specialist wait times blow out to greater than six years, sparking renewed calls for change | ABC, 20 April 2023

March

• Doctors call for NSW to pilot 3yo early childhood education in key communities | The Sector,  24 March 2023
• Calls for early education program for thee-year-olds | The West Australian, 20 March 2023
• NSW doctors push for bipartisan support for early childhood education | The Guardian liveblog, 20 March 2023
• Concerns for children living with autism and ADHD as paediatrician wait lists increase | ABC, 14 March 2023

February

• Silicosis response tantamount to industrial manslaughter, says expert | The Sydney Morning Herald, 27 February 2023
• 'Children were invisible': commissioner calls for national kids' minister as part of COVID recovery | The Age, February 12 2023
• Wrapping reactions to the Strengthening Medicare Taskforce report | Croakey, February 3 2023

2022

December

• 'Raise the age': Greens push for criminal responsibility change on first sitting of new Victorian parliament - 9News (20 December 2022)  
• Bill to raise age of criminal responsibility introduced to Victorian parliament - news.com.au (20 December 2022)
• After a two year delay, groups welcome high-level report calling for age of criminal responsibility to be raised to 14 - NT Times (13 December 2022)
• Doctors express fears for Indigenous kids - AAP (1 December 2022)

November

• Northern Territory set to become first Australian jurisdiction to raise the age of criminal responsibility. Here's what that means - ABC (29 November 2022)
• Australian medical colleges call for age of criminal responsibility to be raised - 9News (17 November 2022)
• Australian governments under fire for harming children - Croakey (17 November 2022)
• National Children's Commissioner Anne Hollonds calls for taskforce to fix brutal youth detention - The West Australian (15 November 2022)
• 'It's working well': McGowan rejects calls for a royal commission into Banksia Hill - Sydney Morning Herald (15 November 2022)
• Urgent action needed to address child immunisation crisis, experts say - Stuff.co.nz (7 November 2022)
• Failure to tackle climate change will put pressure on health system, peak medical bodies say - The Guardian (2 November 2022)

October

• Nitrous oxide neurological risk for young - The Canberra Times (6 October 2022)
• 'Nanging' from whipped cream canisters cause havoc in youth - Daily Telegraph (October 2022)
• Winter viruses smash Aust health system - AAP (8 October 2022)
• Budget Breakdown - Medical Forum (27 October 2022)

September

• Australian Long COVID inquiry - Medical Forum (8 September 2022)
• 'Climate change is already killing Australians': Calls for urgent rollout of climate-health action plan - SBS News (5 September 2022)
• Call for urgent climate-health action plan - The Border Mail (5 September 2022)
• ‘Already killing Australians’: Health professionals unite on urgent climate change message - Women’s Agenda (5 September 2022)
• Climate change: Health leaders’ call to implement a plan that will save lives - Inside Ageing (5 September 2022)
• The number of complaints against Victorian chiropractors has been revealed, along with punishments - Geelong Advertiser (3 September 2022)

August

• Paediatricians float solutions for deteriorating access - newsGP (31 August 2022)
• Don’t over-do MRIs for headache - Medical Republic (29 August 2022)
• Ice and amphetamine dealing offences rise in the Hunter, amid calls for drug reform in NSW in line with recommendations from the special commission of inquiry into ice - Maitland Mercury (26 August 2022)
• The healthcare revolution we all need: a one-stop shop, from GP to specialist - Sydney Morning Herald (18 August 2022)
• Radio Interview - Ultra106 Five (9 August 2022)
• Adolescent COVID-19 vaccine study ‘very encouraging’ for hesitant parents - Sydney Morning Herald (8 August 2022)

• Non-COVID deaths are up a significant amount this year. What's driving the increase? - ABC News (8 August 2022)

July

• Geelong rheumatologist shortage causing hip pocket pain, as regions being left behind - Geelong Advertiser (26 July 2022)
• Radio Interview - ABC Sydney (13 July 2022)
• RACP latest organisation to partner with Thrive by Five and call for reform - The Sector (12 July 2022)
• 'Second worst in world’: Push to extend paid parental leave - The Daily Telegraph (12 July 2022)
• News in brief: Dupilumab gains registration for paediatric uncontrolled asthma; Novel COPD treatment target identified by Aussie researchers; Gender discrimination still rife in medicine: RACP  - The Limbic (8 July 2022)
• How street medic Dr Daniel keeps the fire burning - The Canberra Times (7 July 2022)
• Labor slammed for refusing to extend telehealth services - The West Australian (2 July 2022)
• Medication naloxone to reverse opioid overdoses free from July 1 - NT News (1 July 2022)
• Pharmacist naloxone program extended - Medical Republic (1 July 2022)
• Overworked, understaffed and burning out: hospital pharmacy in 2022 - Australian Journal of Pharmacy – July 2022 Edition (1 July 2022)

June

• Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission’s wastewater drug report Australians biggest ice users -  The West Australian (30 June 2022)
• ‘The clock has run out’: Fed Govt axes specialist telehealth funding - The Limbic (30 June 2022)
• Vaping in a cloud - Daily Telegraph (30 June 2022)
• Former premier, health groups urge Perrottet to implement ice inquiry recommendations - Sydney Morning Herald (24 June 2022)
• As Australia records worst May on record for flu cases, COVID-19 infections plateau - SBS (12 June 2022)
• Virus deaths mount amid hospitals crisis  - Newcastle Herald (11 June 2022)
• Victoria to give $3,000 bonus payments to public healthcare workers, but no extra cash for private staff - SBS (9 June 2022)
• Govt to raise minimum age of detention, not criminal responsibility - Tasmanian Times (8 June 2022)
• Burnout of healthcare workers top priority, says new head of physicians’ College - The Age (1 June 2022)

May

• Border cancer patient says telehealth is 'the only way to go' moving forward - Border Mail (25 May 2022)
• Geelong flu cases surging as Covid pressure continues - Cairns Post (21 May 2022)
• COVID-19 has been a dirty word this election campaign — but health experts say its impact isn't going away - ABC (20 May 2022)
• 1,000 extra student doctors needed every year to avert workforce crisis: universities - Sydney Morning Herald - syndicated in The Age, WAtoday and The Brisbane Times (5 May 2022)
• The Election Wrap: focus on accountability and why the next Health Minister has a long to-do list - Croakey (4 May 2022)
• Working together to support access to quality colonoscopy care across Australia - The National Tribune (4 May 2022)

April

• Local professor elected president of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians - ABC Newcastle Breakfast (27 April 2022)
• The Election Wrap (part three) - Croakey (27 April 2022)
• Part four: wrapping reaction to the Federal Budget - Croakey (6 April 2022)
• Revealed: Risky parental gambling affects 200,000 Australian kids - Sydney morning Herald - Syndicated to the Brisbane Times, The Age and WAtoday (3 April 2022)
• Safe bathrooms and respecting pronouns: What trans people want to see change in Australia - Mamamia (2 April 2022)

March

• The Health Wrap: on budget day, and with an election looming, it’s time to get out the calculators -  Croakey - Syndicated to Brisbane Times, Sydney Morning Herald and WAtoday (29 March 2022)
• The bush still underserved for specialist trainee positions, RACP says - Australian Doctor (28 March 2022)
• Budget Boost for Specialist Training -  Burnie Advocate (25 March 2022)
• Renewal good but expansion needed - Wangaratta Chronicle (25 March 2022)
• ‘Impact is unfathomable’: Doctors join call to raise age of criminal responsibility - The Age - Syndicated to the Brisbane Times, Sydney Morning Herald and WAtoday (17 March 2022)
• Go west, marketing man - The Monthly (17 March 2022)
• Shocking Numbers Of Aboriginal Children Are In Prison And It's A Threat To Closing The Gap - Marie Claire (17 March 2022)
• Radio Interview - Ultra106Five (17 March 2022)
• Most older men would ignore chest pain while exercising, study finds - Daily Telegraph - Syndicated to News.com.au, Gold Coast Bulletin, The Chronicle, Cairns Post and Townsville Bulletin (15 March 2022) 
• Study: Almost half of over-35s not confident in recognizing cardiac risk during exercise - News Medical: Life Sciences (15 March 2022)
• Masters players committed to team, ignore heart health: study - The National Tribune (15 March 2022)
• Awareness for 35+ vital to mitigating cardiac risk during exercise - Retail Pharmacy (15 March 2022)
• ABC News Radio live interview - ABC (15 March 2022)
• Half of men in the dark on heart attacks, new study finds - The Australian (14 March 2022)
• Former footballer Terry Greaves urges government to keep telehealth consultations - The Border Mail (11 March 2022)
• Doctors warn against unnecessary blood transfusions in Australian hospitals as donations decline - ABC (11 March 2022)

2021

September

• Parents need more information to prepare for school return - The Sydney Morning Herald (19 September 2021)
• Earth is running a fever: It's time to act - Medical Republic (17 September 2021) 
• Calls grow for return of children to classroom, as regions get new student safety measures - The Sydney Morning Herald (11 September 2021)
• 'It is safe, it is effective, it will help you' - 3600 Kiwi doctors sign letter backing Covid-19 vaccine - Stuff (8 September 2021)

August

• Examine: Children, Delta and schools: Are we worried about the wrong risk? - The Sydney Morning Herald (31 August 2021)
• Will children be safe when they return to school? - The Sydney Morning Herald (29 August 2021)
• How does the Delta variant of COVID-19 affect children? - The Sydney Morning Herald (27 August 2021)
• ‘Some children will not bounce back': Push for national plan to keep schools open - The Sydney Morning Herald (25 August 2021)
• Reset for equity: First dose of COVID-19 vaccines for Māori and Pasifika - New Zealand Doctor (20 August 2021)
• Calls grow in Tasmania to raise the age of criminal responsibility - The Examiner (7 August 2021)

July

• Offering patients informed choices could reduce low-value care - openforum.com.au (19 July 2021)
• Low value care is a health hazard that calls for patient empowerment -  Medical Journal of Australia (19 July 2021)
• Schools must reopen as soon as possible - The Age (18 July 2021)
• Is it more infectious? Is it spreading in schools? This is what we know about the Delta variant and kids - Croakey (8 July 2021)
• Sydney woman reveals crippling mould health battle as government develops GP guidelines - nine.com.au (7 July 2021)
• How can younger Australians decide about the AstraZeneca vaccine? A GP explains - Croakey (2 July 2021)
• Newcastle pub lockout trial delayed amid COVID-19 outbreak - Newcastle Herald (1 July 2021)
• RACP says school closures should only be considered as last resort in COVID fight - ABC NewsRadio (1 July 2021)
• Doctors flag mental health concerns for students facing extended school holidays - The Mandarin (1 July 2021)

June

• Biloela family allowed to live in community detention – but not to go #HomeToBilo - Eternity News (15 June 2021)
• ‘This has gone on too long’: more Coalition MPs call for Biloela family to be freed from detention - The Guardian (13 June 2021)
• 'No family should have to go through this': Medical professionals call for urgent release of Biloela Tamil family - Nine News (13 June 2021)
• ‘It’s time they came back to the mainland’: Coalition MPs call for Biloela family to stay - The Sydney Morning Herald (13 June 2021)
• Medical groups call for urgent release of Biloela family - Croakey (9 June 2021)
• Tamil family’s lawyers know nothing of potential resettlement offers - The New Daily (9 June 2021)
• Restoration: an ethic to guide health reform in Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia - Croakey (9 June 2021)

May

• New standard to improve the care of 7.7 million Australians who receive IV cannulas or 'drips' each year - Medianet (26 May 2021)
• On Sorry Day, how many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children are behind bars? - Croakey (26 May 2021)
• Health sector urged to lift game on prison health - Croakey (19 May 2021)
• Calls to lift criminal responsibility age - The Examiner (19 May 2021)
• Budget hits and misses: more reaction from the health sector - Croakey (18 May 2021)
• Slow vaccine rollout to people with disabilities in residential care, support workers - The Daily Telegraph (17 May 2021)
• Budget set to boost mental health funding - The Senior (11 May 2021)
• Federal Budget 2021: tax relief, jobs boost and billions expected for health and aged care - Sunshine Coast News (11 May 2021)
• Budget to be 'full response' to aged care - Yahoo! News (10 May 2021)
• Aged care workers say budget boost not enough - ABC News (10 May 2021)
• Aged care funding plans seen as inadequate - Australian Online News (10 May 2021)
• Roadmap to sustainable health care - Insight (3 May 2021)

April

• Engineered stone bench tops are making workers sick — what is being done about it? - Stuff (30 April 2021)
• RACP welcomes health system reform - Voxy.co.nz (29 April 2021)
• Indigenous health leaders welcome Woolworths decision to scrap Darwin Dan Murphy’s megastore - Croakey (29 April 2021)
• Woolworths scraps plan to build NT's largest bottle shop near dry communities after years of protests against the huge Dan Murphy's - Daily News (29 April 2021)
• Royal Australasian College of Physicians welcomes health system reform - New Zealand Doctor (29 April 2021)
• Newcastle's lockout laws are set to ease, but has the city's drinking culture changed? - ABC News (24 April 2021)

March

• Mixed reaction as government moves to end lockouts at Newcastle pubs, clubs - Newcastle Herald (31 March 2021)
• Climate Change minister must make urgent health appointment - New Zealand Doctor (25 March 2021)
• Climate change: Calls for public health expert to be appointed to commission - Stuff (24 March 2021)
• As climate health advocates hit the hustings in Canberra, how can the media do a better job? - Croakey (17 March 2021)
• Health interventions and youth justice - Insight (15 March 2021)
• Rural specialists: grounds for hope for the next 10 years - Insight (8 March 2021)
• Look at all these health and medical experts: what do they know about climate change? - Croakey News (3 March 2021)

February

• Australia's vaccine rollout under way - Otago Daily Time (22 February 2021)
• The Royal Australasian College of Physicians calls on Facebook to reverse ban - ABC News (19 February 2021)
• Doctors gather to discuss addiction during the pandemic - Retail Pharmacy (5 February 2021)
• Australia’s doctors to examine addiction in wake of COVID-19 pandemic at IMiA21 conference - The National Tribune (3 February 2021)

January

• Vaccine makers will be hauled before an inquiry and grilled over whether Australia can actually immunise 25 million people by October - Daily Mail Australia (28 January 2021)
• 31 nations have urged Australia to raise the age of criminal responsibility. Here's what that means. - Mamamia (26 January 2021)
• Climate change: our greatest preventive health challenge - Insight (25 January 2021)
• Doctors shouldn't accept worse health outcomes for Māori children - doctors' group - Newshub (24 January 2021)
• Australia urged by 31 countries at UN meeting to raise age of criminal responsibility - ABC News (20 January 2021)
• Health authorities checking MIQ ventilation systems over possible Covid-19 spread link - Stuff.co.nz (20 January 2021)
• Better care for babies with tongue-tie - LiveNews.co.nz (4 January 2021)

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2020

December

• Link from colonisation to sick kids drawn for docs - waateanews.com (21 December 2020)
• Both sides now: Doctors launch landmark statement on Indigenous child health in Aotearoa NZ and Australia - New Zealand Doctor (17 December 2020)
• Landmark statement on Indigenous Child Health in Aotearoa NZ and Australia - RACP - Voxy (17 December 2020)
• Push for healthcare sector to reduce carbon footprint - Croakey News (16 December 2020)
• Government inaction on the climate crisis a danger for health: MJA-Lancet report - Croakey News (3 December 2020)
• Australia lagging behind in tackling health impacts of climate change: report - Sydney Morning Herald (3 December 2020)
• Failure to tackle health impacts of climate change putting lives at risk, major report warns - ABC Online (3 December 2020)
• New report shows urgent need for National Strategy on Climate Change and Health - Mirage News (3 December 2020)
• As Western Australia moves on climate and health concerns, national and global responses are under the spotlight - Croakey News (2 December 2020)
• Cure Kids identifies indicators of child health in first State of Child Health report - New Zealand Doctor (1 December 2020)

November

• Incarcerating youngsters is no solution - mnnews.today (25 November 2020)

October

• Training on effects of thalidomide - The Medical Republic (22 October 2020)
• TOP will tax junk food to pay for cheaper doctors’ visits and free dental care for our poorest adults - New Zealand Doctor (14 October 2020)
• Rheumatic fever a political disease - waateanews.com (9 October 2020)

September

• 'A miracle if anyone got clean': Australia's drug users fight for treatment during pandemic - The Guardian (28 September 2020)
• The four things New Zealanders need for good health - The Spinoff (24 September 2020)
• 29 medical groups sign up to transparency in billing - The National Tribune (22 September 2020)
• Women and Asian healthcare workers most at risk of coronavirus from ill-fitting face masks - SBS News (16 September 2020)
• Medical colleges welcome new health worker protection measures - The National Tribune (15 September 2020)
• Physicians’ group condemns cap idea - Otago Daily News (12 September 2020)
• Māori doctors urge Otago Uni to protect the Māori Entry Pathway to med school - MSN News (12 September 2020)
• 'School proposal to introduce equity pathway caps disturbing' - Voxy.co.nz (11 September 2020)
• Exploring the challenges for palliative care during pandemic times - Croakey (9 September 2020)

August

• The Briefing: what the ACT’s motion to endorse raising the age of criminal responsibility actually means - The Mandarin (26 August 2020)
• Why Australia is facing calls to stop jailing 10-year-olds - RNZ (22 August 2020)
• Territory Alliance flags return of forced alcohol rehab program ahead of NT election - ABC News (15 August 2020)
• Health workers voice PPE woes in coronavirus fight - SBS News (11 August 2020)
• Medical experts urge Scott Morrison to act on climate change as part of the COVID-19 recovery - SBS News (11 August 2020)
• Health workers voice PPE woes during COVID - Wollondilly Advertiser (10 August 2020)
• Survey finds 20 per cent of Vic nurses, doctors without PPE - Sky News (10 August 2020)
• More medical staff fall ill - ABC News Radio (10 August 2020)

July

• #RaiseTheAge is critical for Closing the Gap targets: senior paediatrician - Croakey (31 July 2020)
• How criminal can a 10-year-old be? - The Signal ABC (30 July 2020)
• More than 90% of Year 10 teachers don’t know the age of criminal responsibility in Australia - Eveningreport.NZ (28 July 2020)
• The debate over masks - 7.30 Report ABC (27 July 2020) 
• “No child belongs in prison”. Australian governments condemned for failure to act on minimum age - Croakey (27 July 2020)
• Should ten year olds be jailed? - Late Night Live ABC (23 July 2020)
• Raise the age to keep Aboriginal kids in community, not behind bars - The Guardian (23 July 2020)
• Ten-year-olds do not belong in detention: Why Australia must raise the age of criminal responsibility - Mamamia (23 July 2020)
• Ten-year-olds do not belong in detention. Why Australia must raise the age of criminal responsibility - The Conversation (23 July 2020)
• 'A quicksand that traps these kids': Push to raise age of criminal responsibility from 10 to 14 - The Age (21 July 2020)
• Push to make children IMMUNE from criminal responsibility until the age of 14 after young gang of kids accused of raping a five-year-old boy escaped prosecution - Daily Mail Australia (21 July 2020)
• Pressure on hospitals to make masks mandatory as coronavirus cases rise - Drive ABC (16 July 2020)
• Doctors blast 'perverse' rejection of zero healthcare worker deaths target - The Age (14 July 2020)
• 'Proven ineffective': Doctors urge stronger alcohol pregnancy warning labels - The Sydney Morning Herald (7 July 2020)
• Summer’s legacy - Croakey (1 July 2020)

June

• Calls for Australia to change ‘cruel’ system - Sunshine Coast Daily (26 June 2020)
• Raise the Age campaign calls for Australia to stop imprisoning children as young as 10 years old - news.com.au (26 June 2020)
• Health and Disability System Review: Māori Health Authority proposal rings hollow - New Zealand Doctor (24 June 2020)
• Push for telehealth to stay after COVID-19 risk subsides - The Courier Mail (24 June 2020)
• Māori content lets down health review - waateanews.com (24 June 2020)
• How healthcare and counselling went online during COVID-19 pandemic - The Courier (17 June 2020)
• Alcohol, drug rehab's move online during COVID-19 breaks Wimmera distance barriers - The Ararat Advertiser (16 June 2020)
• Survey of specialists shows telehealth can improve access and equity permanently - PulseLine (12 June 2020)
• Medicare rebates for telehealth may be extended beyond September - The Sydney Morning Herald (12 June 2020)

May

• Sustained focus on wellbeing essential to support Aotearoa NZ post COVID-19 - New Zealand Doctor (20 May 2020)
• COVID-19 infection: How it affects the human body, and can take up to a year to recover - Herald Sun (10 May 2020)
• Killing ‘sleeper cells’ may enhance breast cancer therapy - Mirage News (7 May 2020)
• Budget 2020 spending on climate could improve public health resilience, experts say - Stuff (4 May 2020)

April

• Amid pandemic concerns for detainee safety, can this legal action save lives? - Croakey (22 April 2020)
• Detainees in on-shore detention fear they will die from Coronavirus outbreak - 10 Daily (16 April 2020)
• Coronavirus symptoms: COVID-19 causes ‘irreversible’ lung damage - Herald Sun (14 April 2020)
• What happens to people's lungs when they get coronavirus? - The Guardian (13 April 2020)
• Save medical masks for frontline workers, says RACP - Retail Pharmacy (7 April 2020)
• Pneumonia deaths are on the rise, CDC says. How does coronavirus lead to the illness? - Yahoo News (7 April 2020)
• New clinical guidelines for COVID-19 help Australian clinicians deliver best care - Medianet (4 April 2020)

March

• COVID-19: Whole of population telehealth for patients, general practice, primary care and other medical services - The National Tribune (29 March 2020)
• How ventilators work and why they are so important in saving people with coronavirus - The Guardian (27 March 2020)
• Coronavirus: Health system alarm as specialists miss out on protective gear - Perth Now (18 March 2020)
• Coronavirus: what happens to people's lungs when they get Covid -19? - The Guardian (13 March 2020)
• RACP says no to National Gender Dysphoria Inquiry - Star Observer (7 March 2020)

February

• Te Rā o Ngā Tamariki NZ Children’s Day: Making whānau wellbeing the norm - New Zealand Doctor (28 February 2020)
• Physicians call on NSW Government to release NSW Ice Inquiry findings - Global Travel Media (18 February 2020) 
• Parliament inquiry into health effects of bushfire smoke - Illawarra Mercury (7 February 2020)

January

• Health and the impact of climate change in Australia - The Four Point Play (20 January 2020)
• Choking point: how Australia's bushfires have left its citizens struggling for air - The Guardian (18 January 2020)
• Melbourne's 'hazardous' air quality causing chaos across the city - Yahoo! News (14 January 2020)
• Government announces mental health funding to tackle bushfire trauma - The Age (12 January 2020)
• Smoke haze and 'very poor' air quality to return to Melbourne - The Age (12 January 2020)
• Bushfires creating health crisis: doctors - news.com.au (11 January 2020)
• Millions of Australians are choking on smoke from wildfires - The New York Times (3 January 2020)

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2019

December

• Why silicosis is on the rise – and what to do about it - Medical Republic (19 December 2019)
• Health sector unites to urge government action on bushfire smoke - Hospital and Healthcare (17 December 2019)
• Sydney's air pollution at unprecedented levels, experts warn - NITV (16 December 2019)
• Governments must act on public health emergency from bushfire smoke, medical groups say - The Guardian (16 December 2019)
• Sydney's smoke haze a 'public health emergency', doctors warn government - SBS News (16 December 2019)
• Health equity still 'under construction' say doctors - New Zealand Doctor (10 December 2019)
• New 'no jab, no play' legislation on way to boost immunisation rate - The Daily Telegraph (6 December 2019)
• Rural communities deserve consultation on alcohol takeaway hours - Mirage News (5 December 2019)

November

• Tasmanians wait in pain for medical treatment - Mirage News (28 November 2019)
• More than 5,000 doctors urge Jacqui Lambie to 'save Medevac' in open letter to Parliament - SBS News (27 November 2019)
• 5,040 doctors sign letter to save Medevac - Herald Sun (27 November 2019)
• 5,000 Australian doctors ask Senate to save Medevac laws - Radio New Zealand (27 November 2019)
• High praise for new documentary as #SaveMedevac campaign gathers force - Croakey (27 November 2019)
• Climate health is a mainstream issue. Let's treat it like one - The Canberra Times (27 November 2019) 
• 'Vote for humanity': Refugee advocates make last-ditch plea to save Medevac laws - SBS News (26 November 2019)
• 'Hazardous' air quality from bushfire smoke triggers spike in hospital admissions - The Guardian (22 November 2019)
• Climate change a "public health emergency": doctors - ABC Radio News and Current Affairs (21 November 2019)
• Bushfires spark breathing concerns and asthma warning - AJP.com.au (21 November 2019)
• 'Maintain the Medevac legislation,' says alliance of medical bodies - Wellness Daily (14 November 2019)
• Australia needs more general physicians trained in rural centres: study - The Senior (12 November 2019)
• Australia's rural doctors speak up to boost regional health services - The National Tribune (6 November 2019)
• Health Crisis: Docs just need time to fall in love with bush - Daily Mercury (6 November 2019) 
• Treaty settlements and the enjoyment of land rights - E-Tangata (3 November 2019)

October

• More medical groups sign up for transparency in fees - The National Tribune Australia (30 October 2019)
• Medevac is about health not migration outcomes - Eureka Street (23 October 2019)
• Emerging workplace disease exposes hole in health system, specialists say - TVNZ (21 October 2019) 
• Experts urge Senate to hold the line on refugee medical help - The Sydney Morning Herald (13 October 2019)

September

• Greens call for ban on manufactured stone - Echonetdaily (26 September 2019)
• UN pressures governments to stop locking up children - Pro Bono Australia (25 September 2019)
• Why Australia needs to raise the criminal age of responsibility to 14 - SBS News (24 September 2019)
• Festivals fuel Vic pill testing appeal - The Northern Daily Leader (23 September 2019)
• Doctors lobby on climate health risk - Border Chronicle (16 September 2019)
• Insecurity of some white people hinders investment in Māori health, says oncologist George Laking - Stuff.co.nz (15 September 2019)
• NACCHO working together with Aboriginal Community Controlled Health organisations to prevent - Mirage News (10 September 2019)
• Kinder dust suppression to tackle silica emissions - Bulk Handling Review (9 September 2019)
• Silicosis and lung disease awareness now a priority for medical professionals - HealthTimes (4 September 2019)
• Climate change is a health emergency - Mirage News (3 September 2019)

August

• Physicians welcome Government's school lunch programme - Voxy.co.nz (30 August 2019)
• Doctors call for Queensland government to back minimum alcohol price - Brisbane Times (12 August 2019)
• Stronger air pollution laws essential for Australian's health - Medianet (8 August 2019)
• Major businesses urge Premier to revive Sydney after dark - The Sydney Morning Herald - (5 August 2019) 
• Revive Sydney’s nightlife, major businesses plead with NSW Premier -Yahoo! Finance (5 August 2019)

July

• Doctors call for a minimum alcohol price to end binge drinking - 7news.com.au (23 July 2019)
• Doctors push for a minimum price on alcohol in NSW - The Sydney Morning Herald (22 July 2019)
• Powerful medical group wants to introduce minimum prices for alcohol - news.com.au (22 July 2019)
• 'Never meant to happen': the fear and failure behind NSW's drug deaths - The Guardian (13 July 2019)
• Developers to design software for specialists - Technology Decisions (8 July 2019) 
• Software vendors get handouts for My Health Record integration - IT news (4 July 2019)
• Doctors welcome rules making insulation the norm in rental homes - Voxy.co.nz (2 July 2019)

June

• Doctor exams a first for Tairawhiti - The Gisborne Herald (27 June 2019)
• Over 1000 Kiwi workers could have been exposed to 'new asbestos', specialists warn - 1 News Now (19 June 2019)
• Treating the youngest patients with heart and care | Queen's Birthday Honours - St George & Sutherland Shire Leader (10 June 2019)
• UN group urges release of mother and baby from immigration detention - The Sydney Morning Herald (1 June 2019)

May

• Data and drivers of doctors’ mental health - Croakey (22 May 2019)
• Raise criminal age to end youth detention abuse, lawyers and doctors say - NITV (14 May 2019)
• EML backs Health Benefits of Good Work campaign - Insurance Business Australia (14 May 2019)
• Inadvertent harms - AJP.com.au (9 May 2019)
• Social media and fake news used to attack vaccinations - NZ Herald (9 May 2019)
• No pain, no gain: How to handle New Zealand's opioid epidemic - Radio NZ (9 May 2019)
• Experts sound warning over Aussie opioid crisis - ABC (8 May 2019)
• Tackling doctor burn-out: the importance of self-care in medicine - HealthCentral.NZ (8 May 2019)
• Asbestos 2.0? - ABC (3 May 2019)
• Australasian medial experts gathering in Auckland to lead health discussion at RACP Congress 2019 - NZ Doctor (3 May 2019)  

April

• Silicosis epidemic draws Federal Government help as stonemason shortage strikes industry - ABC (30 April 2019) 
• Dust disease taskforce won't make sick workers breathe easy: Lawyer - The Sydney Morning Herald (30 April 2019)
• Coalition announces taskforce, registry to address urgent concerns on silicosis - Croakey (30 April 2019)
• Silicosis epidemic draws Federal Government help as stonemason shortage strikes industry - ABC (30 April 2019)
• Intellectual disability advocates' $50m push to improve medical care - The Guardian (1 April 2019)

March

• Federal Budget 2019/20 - Preventive health priorities from the health sector - Croakey (26 March 2019)
• Indigenous suicide: 35 dead in three months, including three 12-year-old children - The Guardian (22 March 2019)
• 'Unmitigated crisis': calls for PM to act on Indigenous youth suicide - SBS (21 March 2019)
• 'Stop child deaths': medical bodies urge crisis response to wave of Indigenous suicide - The Guardian (21 March 2019)
• Leaders urged to declare Aboriginal child suicides a 'national crisis' - The Sydney Morning Herald (20 March 2019)

January

• MPs join forces to push pill testing trial in Victoria - 9News (21 January 2019) 
• 'Stop your moral crusade, Gladys': MP admits using MDMA in call for pill testing - SBS News (21 January 2019) 
• Greens MP Cate Faehrmann has admitted to a history of illicit drug use - News.com.au (21 January 2019) 
• Hundreds of protesters march for pill testing after spate of deaths - Daily Mail Australia (20 January 2019) 
• The list of experts saying we need to try pill testing is growing longer and longer - Junkee (18 January 2019)
• 'Evidence backs pill testing trials': physicians tell Berejiklian - The Age (18 January 2019)

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2018

December

• Victoria in worst hep A outbreak since modern sewerage - The Sydney Morning Herald (20 December 2018)
• Doctor's urge people to watch for measles symptoms after Canberra case - The Sydney Morning Herald (18 December 2018)
• 'Missed opportunity': Australia's 'difficult' position in UN climate change talks - The Sydney Morning Herald (16 December 2018)
• UN, doctors hammer Australia over refugee camps - 7News (3 December 2018)
• Mental health on Nauru 'far worse than victims of torture': Médecins Sans Frontières - ABC News (3 December 2018)

• Specialist on-country healthcare improving outcomes in remote Aboriginal communities - ABC News (1 December 2018)

November

• All benchtop stonemasons should be urgently tested for lung disease, expert warns - ABC News (23 November 2018)
• Infection 'without symptoms': Health authority's warning for schoolies - The Sydney Morning Herald (16 November 2018)
• The antibiotic resistance apocalypse is coming, and New Zealand isn't immune -  Stuff.co.nz (15 November 2018)
• Kiwis prescribed more antibiotics than Europeans - Central.nz (14 November 2018) 

• Australia under growing pressure over remote detention policy - Aljazeera (9 November 2018)

October

• Viral letter to PM shows the people are united -  The Sydney Morning Herald (16 October 2018)
• Federal Government calls on states to undertake immediate investigation into silicosis risk - ABC News (12 October 2018)
• Trendy Kitchen Benches Are Causing The Worst Work Health Crisis Since Asbestos - Pedestrian (10 October 2018) 

• Children and families in immigration detention is a health emergency: NZ paediatricians - NZ Doctor (4 October 2018) 

September

• Australia spent $275,000 fighting requests for urgent medical transfers of asylum seekers - The Guardian (29 September 2018)
• Peak medical groups call for end to detention for kids and families - Croakey (27 September 2018)
• Kids on Nauru at risk of death - Australian Doctor (print edition) (7 September 2018)

August

• Caution issued on two auto-antibodies tests unnecessary referrals a burden - New Zealand Doctor (29 August 2018)
• The medical benefits of illicit drugs: Can marijuana and LSD be used to treat illnesses?, News.com.au (19 August 2018)
• Doctors seek national child health focus, News.com.au (15 August 2018) 
• Paediatricians call for Gonski approach to child health, The Sydney Morning Herald  (15 August 2018)
• It's Time To 'Gonski' Health Care For Children, Channel 10 Daily (15 August 2018)
• Health experts call for needs-based funding model in children's healthcare, ABC Radio National (15 August 2018)
• Should QLD raise the age children can be imprisoned?, 97.3FM (10 August 2018)
• Cecelia shakes UK confidence daily, The Australian (10 August 2018)
• Queensland kids battle for custody, The Wire (10 August 2018)
• Calls for alcohol warnings, Cobram Courier, (10 August 2018)
• Amnesty urges Queensland to raise age of criminal responsibility to 14, The Guardian (9 August 2018)
• Call to raise Queensland imprisonment age to 14, The Sydney Morning Herald (9 August 2018)
• Government launches critical new weapon in fight against syphilis, The National Indigenous Times, (8 August 2018)
• Epidemic of ‘the great mimicker’– syphilis demands more monitoring, attention on diagnosis, New Zealand Doctor, 1 August 2018

July

• Govt needs to help battle syphilis, doctors say, Radio New Zealand (18 July 2018)
• Public health response needed to manage syphilis outbreak, New Zealand Doctor (18 July 2018)
• Killer syphilis response 'totally inadequate': doctors, New Zealand Herald (17 July 2018)
• Fact check: will the move to make codeine prescription only save 100 lives a year?,  ABC (12 July 2018)
• Safety urged as syphilis rises in the NT, NT News (12 July 2018)
• Real Bodies exhibition: doctors call for show to close, The Australian (11 July 2018) 
• NSW Health breaks own rules by letting Real Bodies display corpses, The Sydney Morning Herald (10 July 2018)
• Make pregnancy warnings mandatory for alcohol products, Parenthub (10 July 2018)
• WA health minister promises action against anti-gay conversion, Sydney Star Observer (6 July 2018)
• Federal Government needs to take action against alcohol industry's poor pregnancy warnings, doctors say, News.com.au (4 July 2018)
• Call for mandatory pregnancy warnings on alcohol, The Katherine Times (4 July 2018)

June

• Dying refugee moved from Nauru to Australia after intense campaign, The Guardian (23 June 2018)
• ‘No way to die’: peak medical bodies call for dying refugee to come to Australia, The Guardian (21 June 2018)
• Medical groups add to calls for dying Nauru refugee, as US offers stark parallel, Croakey (20 June 2018)

May

• Obesity epidemic: Regional Australians the biggest losers in specialist treatment, ABC AM (19 May 2018)
• When hospitals are making people sick, The Sydney Morning Herald (16 May 2018)
• Spectacular mentors made the difference: Dr Helena Teede on building a massive medical career while raising young kids, Women's Agenda (15 May 2018)
• Drug testing dole recipients will only make addiction worse, but the government won't hear it, ABC Online (10 May 2018)
• A coach or mentor will force you to prioritise & stay accountable: Meet Dr Sarah Dalton, Women's Agenda (7 May 2018)

April

• Pregnant women drinking alcohol puts babies at greater risk than those abusing drugs, The Canberra Times (21 April 2018)
• Greens want to legalise cannabis for all adults, The Sydney Morning Herald (16 April 2018)
• Medicinal cannabis is legal. That does not mean it works, The Sydney Morning Herald (6 April 2018)

March

• Don't be dopey: we owe it to patients not to rush medicinal cannabis, The Australian (26 March 2018)

February

• 'His body, his choice', SBS News (20 February 2018)
• Could access to medicinal cannabis be doing more harm than good? ABC, The World Today (19 February 2018)
• Doctors warn against rush to prescribe medicinal cannabis, The Guardian (19 February 2018)
• Why is the number of male circumcisions declining in Australia? SBS News (19 February 2018)
• Experts warn about effects of medicinal cannabis, The Australian (17 February 2018)
• Specialists push for better access to child health care for all Australian children, International Business Times (12 February 2018)
• Doctors advised to stop performing arthroscopic knee surgery for osteoarthritis, The Sydney Morning Herald (7 February 2018)
• Syphilis out of control in the north, National Indigenous Times, (7 February 2018)
• Growing body of research shows potential risks of arthroscopic knee surgery, 3AW (6 February 2018)
• Syphilis sky rockets across the north, Katherine Times (2 February 2018)

January

• Welfare reforms sound alarm bells among health and medical experts, Croakey (19 January 2018)
• Doctors push for free procedures for obese Australians, Courier Mail (13 January 2018)
• Lap-band surgery could soon be free but does it work? Channel Nine News (13 January 2018)

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2017

December 2017

• Over-the-counter codeine-based pills to become prescription only, Daily Telegraph (30 December 2017)
• Medical bodies urge Turnbull Government to help Manus Island asylum seekers, The Sydney Morning Herald (12 December 2017)
• Government shelves plans to drug test welfare recipients, citing lack of Senate support, ABC, AM (7 December 2017)

November 2017

• Doctors, lawyers join call to raise age of criminal responsibility, ABC Online (26 November 2017)
• 'Taking away basic rights of children', SBS News (22 November 2017)
• How young is too young?. SBS News (22 November 2017)
• Age of criminal responsibility, The Drum (21 November 2017)
• It's a yes! Now let's put the love in to the marriage legislation, Croakey (15 November 2017)
• Codeine upschedling - a test of lobbying vs evidence, Croakey (4 November 2017)

October 2017

• Drug testing welfare recipients will stigmatise poor, UN official says, The Guardian, (18 October 2017)
• Australian GP College endorses marriage equality after receiving backlash, Sydney Star Observer (4 October 2017)

September 2017

• Too many x-rays done on kids, experts warn, SBS News (25 September 2017)
• Doctors told to reduce number of x-rays ordered for children, Perth Now (25 September 2017)
• ‘Ludicrous practice’ of gay conversion therapy to be scrutinised, Triple J Hack, (21 September 2017)
• Cost of addiction will only grow under drug testing plan, The Mercury (6 September 2017)
• Doctors condemn Coalition for likening welfare drug tests to vaccinations, The Guardian (5 September 2017)
• Drug testing welfare recipients a 'tick the box' exercise that will never work, Crikey (1 September 2017)
• Humiliating welfare recipients is no solution to addiction, Croakey (1 September 2017)

August 2017

• Humiliation, not help, in store for drug tested welfare recipients, Huffington Post (24 August 2017)
• Pregnant refugees refused abortions on Nauru must be brought to Australia, says AMA , The Guardian (23 August 2017)
• Addiction experts beg government to scrap welfare tests, Huffington Post (19 August 2017)
• Trial is inherently flawed, Border Mail (7 August 2017)
• Drug testing dole recipients harmful: RACP, Channel Nine News (4 August 2017)
• Drug testing dole recipients harmful: RACP, World News Australia (4 August 2017)
• Doctors advised to stop ordering 'unreliable, potentially harmful' tests for women and children, The Sydney Morning Herald (1 August 2017)

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