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Essays & Reportage Mike Steketee 1 November 2023 The federal government’s plans are receiving cautious support in unexpected quarters
National Affairs Lesley Russell 30 October 2023 Australian health policy doesn’t treat it that way, but dental care is a medical issue Books & Arts Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz 11 October 2023 Individualised medicine promised the world, but can it deliver? National Affairs Lesley Russell 30 August 2023 Private health insurance is a drain on the federal budget with no clear benefits. So why is Labor only quietly tinkering? Books & Arts Anne-Marie Condé 28 August 2023 Sydney’s best-known bohemian lived entirely by her own rules
Books & Arts Frank Bowden 18 August 2023 Historian Simon Schama spent the pandemic researching smallpox, cholera and plague
Books & Arts Linda Atkins 2 August 2023 How much of an author’s experience of an abortion do we have a right to read about? Books & Arts Nick Haslam 6 February 2023 How best should we cope with our awareness of death — and a desire to control when it happens? National Affairs Daniel Reeders 14 December 2022 When can we say an epidemic is over? National Affairs Lesley Russell 6 December 2022 … is worth a pound of cure — which is why we need an Australian Centre for Disease Control charged with doing both
National Affairs Daniel Reeders 31 October 2022 $8 billion lost each year in Medicare fraud, errors and over-servicing? The evidence doesn’t add up
Books & Arts Jacinta Halloran 21 October 2022 Is technology endangering the doctor–patient relationship? International Lesley Russell 5 November 2021 Rich countries have dragged their feet on promises to help less well-off countries vaccinate. But there are small signs of progress From the archive Alecia Simmonds 17 September 2021 Are mistaken beliefs about the history of mental health treatments stopping us from creating a humane system? National Affairs Michael Bartos 1 September 2021 Flexibility will be almost as important as focus for controlling Covid-19 in the months ahead
National Affairs Frank Bongiorno 9 July 2021 The federal government’s handling of vaccinations shows how much damage has been done to the public sector
National Affairs Lesley Russell 1 July 2021 This week’s blow-up between the premiers and the PM was triggered by the latest in a series of bad decisions about vaccination National Affairs Jennifer Doggett 18 June 2021 Despite the opposition’s resistance, the government’s changes to the Medicare schedule deserve to proceed National Affairs Frank Bongiorno 12 June 2021 Buying the Sydney Swans bolstered the swashbuckling 1980s image of medical entrepreneur Geoffrey Edelsten, who died this week International Lesley Russell 10 May 2021 Joe Biden’s prioritisation of healthcare has been evident from day one
National Affairs Carol Johnson 13 April 2021 Will the government survive the vaccine debacle?
International Lesley Russell 2 March 2021 Sharing vaccines fairly is not only an ethical imperative but also essential to controlling Covid-19 International Lesley Russell 11 February 2021 Covid-19 hit the United States hard, but life expectancy was already falling. The lessons for other countries are clear Books & Arts Jane Goodall 14 December 2020 Television | The highs and occasional lows of Four Corners’ coverage of 2020 Essays & Reportage Michael Bennett 13 November 2020 How the world’s first vaccine came to Australia… in 1804
International Mike Steketee 11 September 2020 Infections are low, but the factors that will help the virus to spread are already clear
National Affairs Michael Bartos 11 September 2020 A half-year of Covid-19-watching suggests the most effective way ahead National Affairs Michael Bartos 25 August 2020 Behind the growing Covid-19 optimism is worrying political and geopolitical manoeuvring National Affairs Michael Bartos 11 August 2020 Greater use of isolation would help us through the “middle game” of Covid-19 National Affairs Michael Bartos 28 July 2020 Outbreaks, vaccines, and the limits of centralised control