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Health - 2008

Binge drinking teens

by John Herron - 17/03/2008 - 11 comments

When losing is winning

by Stephen Hagan - 30/01/2008

We must stop stealing doctors from the poor

by Peter Deutschmann - 17/07/2008 - 11 comments

Fun Runs – a rare example of effective government health policy

by Felicity McMahon - 14/08/2008 - 4 comments

Sexual and reproductive health in crisis

by Jenny Ejlak - 29/10/2008 - 11 comments

Black and white thinking: mental illness and the print media

by Jenny Jones - 7/04/2008 - 17 comments

From vroom-vroom to whirr-whirr: a solution to the Melbourne gridlock

by Roger Kalla - 23/12/2008 - 7 comments

‘The land of faery … where nobody gets old’

by Kath Brewster - 30/09/2008 - 5 comments

When a 'healthy' Tick shouldn't be a tick

by Rosemary Stanton - 22/02/2008 - 8 comments

Internet 'thinspiration'

by Nina Funnell - 19/11/2008 - 3 comments

Homework is the mother of prevention

by Monica Dux - 10/12/2008

Groundwater from hell

by Julian Cribb - 4/03/2008 - 1 comment

Educational support and social exclusion

by Linda Graham and Roger Slee - 14/02/2008 - 2 comments

Cancer adds further urgency to prioritising obesity control

by Paul Grogan and Ian Olver - 8/09/2008 - 7 comments

Investing in health

by Joe Hockey - 9/09/2008 - 6 comments

'Sickness unto death' is becoming a thing of the past

by Brett Neilson - 10/09/2008 - 1 comment

S-x, cancer and virginity: unpicking the Gardasil hype

by Andrew Gunn - 5/09/2008 - 3 comments

Your money or your health?

by Helen Lobato - 30/05/2008 - 48 comments

Measuring medicos

by Andrew Leigh - 27/03/2008 - 6 comments

The Gardasil 'miracle' coming undone?

by Renate Klein - 21/08/2008 - 22 comments

Take two aspirins and call for more reform

by Adam Johnston - 8/01/2008 - 2 comments

An uncaring viewpoint

by Rachel Siewert - 28/03/2008 - 10 comments

Well blow me!

by Elisabeth Lopez - 12/09/2008 - 3 comments

The ethics and rights debate in the helping professions

by Chris James - 17/09/2008 - 5 comments

Future doctor's challenge to Federal Health Minister

by Matthew Dobson - 1/02/2008 - 6 comments

The rice crisis: what needs to be done?

by Robert Zeigler - 19/06/2008 - 4 comments

Having children is a privilege

by Brian Holden - 19/12/2008 - 22 comments

Your DNA - dirty deeds done dirt cheap?

by Roger Kalla - 15/10/2008 - 5 comments

Violence in our homes - an assault on our future

by Todd Harper - 4/12/2008 - 100 comments

Health inequality

by Peter Curson - 22/12/2008 - 6 comments

Indigenous culture can live on

by John Mathews - 7/01/2008 - 14 comments

China too must confront obesity

by Rachel Huxley and Yangfeng Wu - 24/09/2008 - 2 comments

The case for decriminalising abortion is not so simple

by David Palmer - 4/07/2008 - 141 comments

Road map for Australian health care reform - Part II

by Fred Hansen - 12/08/2008 - 8 comments

Advertising blue

by Michael Cook - 2/01/2008 - 17 comments

Cholesterol screening for children

by Helen Lobato - 22/07/2008 - 4 comments

Rural health workforce audit 'screams' for health reforms

by Ged Kearney - 5/06/2008 - 6 comments

Staying fit and strong as we age

by Peter West - 23/09/2008 - 7 comments

Life changes

by Helen Lobato - 18/06/2008 - 9 comments

Young people’s health and wellbeing: 20 years of policy failure?

by Richard Eckersley - 9/10/2008 - 2 comments

Healthcare in crisis

by Ged Kearney - 27/11/2008 - 3 comments

Harm minimisation needs to be for children too

by Lillian De Bortoli and Philip Mendes - 3/03/2008 - 3 comments

The global hunger challenge: an opportunity for Australian leadership

by James Ingram - 11/11/2008 - 18 comments

Kangaroo: designed for our times

by John Kelly - 13/06/2008 - 54 comments

Remembering Eve van Grafhorst

by Brian Haill - 2/12/2008 - 2 comments

Branding girls for s*x

by Melinda Tankard Reist - 6/05/2008 - 18 comments

HIV-AIDS loses out in the Budget

by Joe Thomas - 27/05/2008

Child abuse is a blight on us all

by Rob Moodie - 9/07/2008 - 20 comments

Is Rudd a dud?

by Chris Lewis - 16/09/2008 - 31 comments

Issues and agendas to push

by Stephen Hagan - 19/03/2008

Stopping the river of illness at its source

by Todd Harper - 16/04/2008 - 7 comments

The forgotten victims of prostitution

by Jehane Sharah - 12/11/2008 - 13 comments

On tsunamis and economies: reflections on public health

by Anthony Shakeshaft - 13/05/2008

The issue of dying

by David Palmer - 26/06/2008 - 71 comments

Two more milestones in the failed war on drugs

by Sandra Kanck - 2/07/2008 - 6 comments

Paying for our old age

by Bill Richmond - 23/09/2008 - 8 comments

Lack of GPs and other great health debate myths

by Jeremy Sammut - 10/03/2008 - 4 comments

Who cares about carers? Kevin Rudd?

by Jean Tops - 12/03/2008 - 27 comments

Nurses willing and able

by Ged Kearney - 25/06/2008 - 4 comments

A conscience vote is meaningless unless it is a two-way street

by Leslie Cannold - 23/09/2008 - 21 comments

Australia's radioactive migraine

by Scott Ludlam - 26/09/2008 - 21 comments

Memoir: The last taboo

by Charlie Stansfield - 24/11/2008 - 6 comments

‘Romancing opiates’ - the nature of addiction

by Ben-Peter Terpstra - 9/12/2008 - 24 comments

Mixed message on binge drinking

by Jeremy Sammut - 5/05/2008 - 8 comments

Organic consumerism

by Fred Hansen - 4/06/2008 - 20 comments

A lack of vision on health reform

by Jeremy Sammut - 12/05/2008 - 4 comments

A few good ideas

by Peter West - 11/03/2008 - 3 comments

Opt out for lower tax and better health care

by Jeremy Sammut - 15/09/2008 - 10 comments

Aborting conscientious objection

by Michael Cook - 23/09/2008 - 60 comments

The deserving and the not so deserving

by Ivan Simic - 23/10/2008 - 2 comments

Itches and scratches - living with disability

by Peter Gibilisco - 19/03/2008 - 8 comments

Youth-in-Asia

by John Töns - 29/08/2008 - 26 comments

Principles and people should guide our health system

by Fiona Armstrong - 2/09/2008 - 2 comments

The importance of disabilty support workers

by Peter Gibilisco and Debbie Mackenzie - 15/04/2008 - 3 comments

Do-it-yourself spirituality

by Rosemary Aird - 29/04/2008 - 16 comments

Budgeting for disability

by Melinda Tankard Reist - 12/11/2008 - 19 comments

Selfish ber-loody women at it again

by Helen Smart - 9/01/2008 - 3 comments

The chickens come home to roost

by Charles Lawson - 27/10/2008 - 2 comments

A shameless act of self promotion: my brush with death

by Kym Durance - 18/03/2008 - 9 comments

Hypocrisy over carers

by Peter Martin - 13/03/2008 - 13 comments

The ideological, illogical war against cannabis

by Sandra Kanck - 1/08/2008 - 46 comments

The road monsters are coming

by Alan Parker - 17/09/2008 - 14 comments

Cycling is a healthy transport solution

by Chris Rissel - 5/06/2008 - 19 comments

Generation ‘whine’ and other self-harm myths

by Jenny Jones - 19/06/2008 - 9 comments

Obituary for the first human clone

by David van Gend - 8/02/2008 - 17 comments

Baby boomtime

by Graeme Hugo - 3/09/2008 - 5 comments

Biosecurity and infectious disease

by Peter Curson - 27/10/2008 - 2 comments

Not much learned from Fong - he fizzed and was gone

by Peter Vintila - 6/02/2008 - 3 comments

ECT - what no one is talking about

by Sam Westgarth - 2/04/2008 - 29 comments

Spin won’t make 'high care' aged care sector sustainable

by Jeremy Sammut - 17/07/2008 - 3 comments

Sport - the great all rounder

by Peter Tapsell - 4/12/2008 - 11 comments

Mandatory vaccinations

by Helen Lobato - 23/12/2008 - 57 comments

First do no harm

by Kerin O'Dea - 25/03/2008 - 8 comments

To fluoridate or not to fluoridate

by Anne Matthews-Frederick - 23/10/2008 - 36 comments

Consternation in Barad-dûr

by Michael Cook - 22/04/2008 - 8 comments

Is therapeutic cloning on the skids?

by Michael Cook - 28/05/2008 - 4 comments

Close examination of the Health Budget

by Lesley Russell - 19/06/2008

Road map for Australian health care reform - Part I

by Fred Hansen - 5/08/2008 - 6 comments

Universal access to disability services defines our progress

by Peter Gibilisco - 3/12/2008 - 2 comments

The Heart Foundation’s Tick deals with reality

by Susan Anderson - 31/03/2008 - 1 comment

Implanon: just slip it in?

by Renate Klein - 6/05/2008 - 4 comments

Life and death decisions

by David Heckendorf - 26/08/2008

Women and couples first

by Judith Troeth - 2/06/2008 - 16 comments

Competition has a lot to answer for

by Harry Throssell - 20/03/2008 - 49 comments

Why is child abuse an accepted norm in Australia?

by Chris James - 22/10/2008 - 38 comments

The good will to 'close the gap'

by James Ensor - 3/07/2008 - 6 comments

Where’s the beef?

by Malcolm Jorgensen and Brendon O'Connor - 22/02/2008 - 2 comments

An atheist who loved his neighbour

by Brian Holden - 10/07/2008 - 17 comments

The failed war on drugs

by Sukrit Sabhlok - 18/09/2008 - 22 comments

Who will care?

by Gill Pierce, Leigh Hillman and Ben Ilsley - 29/09/2008 - 3 comments

The case of the vanishing GP

by Barbara Reynolds-Hutchinson - 16/04/2008 - 7 comments

Rich pickings for the slender

by Garry Jennings and Kerin O'Dea - 10/06/2008 - 6 comments

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