The next pandemic is 'an epidemiological certainty'
The next pandemic disease outbreak is already on the way. Only its identity remains a surprise.
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28 August 2025
Why the NDIS inevitably went pear-shaped!
I was a part of the old (underfunded, unfair, fragmented, and inefficient, according to the Productivity Commission) state-run system.
26 August 2025
Lowering tobacco tax to make illegal tobacco sales 'disappear overnight': At last we have a proposed figure and it’s an absolute doozie
Last week Ross Fitzgerald wrote a piece here titled Time to get real on taxing cigarettes and restricting vapes.
23 August 2025
Time to get real on taxing cigarettes and restricting vapes
Australia’s cigarettes are now the most expensive in the world. Excise has been increased cumulatively by over 340% in the past 20 years, clearly helping to depress consumption for many years.
20 August 2025
Australia has 120 health workforce policies. But with no national plan, we’re missing the big picture
Australia’s health workforce is under pressure. Wait times are growing. Burnout is rising. Yet the country is awash in policy – just not the kind that solves these problems at the root.
14 August 2025
Israel bars entry of specialist medical teams into Gaza
As the world leaders produce yet more words and pass yet more resolutions on the genocide on Gaza, more than 12,000 children now are severely, dangerously malnourished as Israel continues to deny sufficient food into the Strip.
11 August 2025
Well-being, health and the Productivity Roundtable
In June 2025 I wrote about the National Well-being Budget and Measuring What Matters. Since then, a lot has happened that deserves attention, particularly with the government’s planned Productivity Roundtable in August.
9 August 2025
How we at Physicians for Human Rights Israel decided that the Gaza war is a genocide
When examining all the factors together, we identify a clear pattern that indicates Israeli intent to kill Palestinians in Gaza. The systematic nature is the smoking gun.
9 August 2025
Digital screen use by infants and toddlers risks long-term health and education outcomes
Greater public health awareness of the harms of digital screen use is needed to reclaim parents as their first and irreplaceable teacher.
9 August 2025
Trump and Kennedy are destroying global science. Even Einstein questioned facts – but there’s a method to it
Eight months into Donald Trump’s second term as president of the US, truth and science are again under attack – with global consequences.
8 August 2025
Call for national action to prevent 'torture' or death of incarcerated First Nations children
Paediatricians in the Northern Territory see the dire effects of entrenched structural racism on Aboriginal children on a daily basis.
3 August 2025
Is ChatGPT making us stupid?
Back in 2008, The Atlantic sparked controversy with a provocative cover story: Is Google Making Us Stupid?
2 August 2025
Australian media persists with a misguided and tragically ineffectual strategy – the way to prevent suicide is not to talk about it
Statistics are cold-hearted methods to gauge the success of suicide prevention strategies, yet they are the only tool available to measure the number of Australians who take their lives each year.
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