Vaccine rollout and uptake absurdly slow
While the USA today announced that 50% of adults have been fully vaccinated, Australia is languishing, with less than 2% of Australian adults now fully vaccinated against COVID-19. In 3 …
Budget: Health
New funding for mental health and suicide prevention, women’s health – including long-sought-after investment in endometriosis research and treatment – is welcome in this budget but falls short across the …
More reasons to give up gas
The Climate Council released its report today – Kicking the Gas Habit: How gas is harming our health. The findings of the report were that children living in houses with gas …
Flight ban from India irrational and let’s help Africa
Preventing Australian citizens coming home from India on the basis of Covid cases makes no sense. The penalties applied – jail terms of up to five years and fines of …
Market gets rid of old, dirty Yallourn power
Update: Yallourn means high time for a carbon price says Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW 12 March. We couldn’t agree more – see here for our $30/tonne plan. Professor …
President-elect Biden – much to celebrate and do on climate and covid
It is a great relief that the majority of American people have elected Joe Biden as President and Kamala Harris as the first woman to become Vice President in American history. The …
We are all more insecure
Professor Patrick McGorry, in The Age this morning warns there has been a surge in traffic to crisis helplines and emergency departments and a 31% increase in Victorians seeking help …
Fixing the homelessness catastrophe a win-win
Vivienne Skinner and Phillippa Carnemolla of the University of Technology, Sydney have written a compelling argument for taking action to fix homelessness based on the very high cost of not …
Aged care – we can do better
There’s no doubt that aged care homes were, and probably still are, ill-prepared for Covid-19. It’s also tragic that by 29 August, 407 aged care residents had died of the virus, presumably without family members close by. …
Masking healthcarer risks
322 new cases in Victoria today is tragic, but there is some relief in the assessment by Victoria’s Chief Health Officer that the numbers of new cases now appear to be stabilising and trending downwards. …