Health

By Denis Hay Description Environmental chemicals and health risks affect Australians through work, food, and water. Learn impacts, causes and solutions. Introduction Environmental chemicals and health are inseparable issues in modern Australia. For decades, Australians […]

Every few weeks, a man I’ll call “Mark” gets in his car in the dark and points it up the highway. Three hours later he walks into the secure dementia unit. His mother is in […]

By A Concerned Reader (This article draws only from publicly available information, media reports, Senate Estimates transcripts, and policy documents.) Introduction As the new Support at Home (SaH) program begins rolling out across Australia, an […]

5 Systemic Failures: A System in Critical Condition Beyond specific issues with home injuries and mental health, the workers’ compensation system suffers from foundational problems that affect all claimants. 5.1 Frontline Professional Perspectives General practitioners […]

Introduction: The New Workplace Reality Exposes Systemic Flaws The dramatic shift toward remote work in Australia has created a critical stress test for the nation’s workers’ compensation systems, revealing fundamental flaws in how workplace injuries […]

Australia’s long-awaited Support at Home (SAH) reforms were meant to simplify access to aged-care services. Instead, frontline assessors across every state and territory are warning that the rushed rollout of the new Integrated Assessment Tool […]

Dementia Australia Media Release The latest data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released today in the Causes of Death, Australia, 2024 report has named dementia as the leading cause of death in Australia, […]

New telehealth rules starting today will restrict nurse practitioners’ (NP) ability to deliver high-quality healthcare – a loss to Australians, particularly in remote and regional areas. Patients of independent nurse practitioners will now be required […]

Part 13: Global Health & Diplomacy When America sneezes, the world often catches cold. That cliché is doubly true in global health. For decades, the U.S. has been the backbone of vaccine funding, logistics, and […]

Part 9: Policy Spillovers – What Happens When Coverage Drops The claim that vaccines cause autism may begin as rhetoric, but it doesn’t stay rhetorical for long. Once coverage drops, the consequences arrive quickly – […]

Part 6: Mechanisms 101 Understanding autism means moving past lists of genes and chemicals to the deeper question: how do these factors interact in the developing brain? The answer is that autism isn’t caused by […]

Part 3: Why Autism Diagnoses Rose If vaccines don’t cause autism, why do the numbers keep climbing? In the U.S., autism prevalence among 8-year-olds is now estimated at 1 in 31 (CDC, 2022) compared with […]

False claims don’t cause autism – but they do cause real harm, from stigmatising families to fueling outbreaks and hollowing out science. Part 1: This Is Not a Vaccine Debate. It’s a Reality Test When […]