The national capital has recorded four new cases of COVID -19 - one of its lowest daily case numbers since the Delta variant outbreak began in August.
Andrew Brown
Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt has announced a major funding boost to Australia’s COVID-19 response, as the emergence of the Omicron variant becomes a concern for health authorities.
Kimberley Caines
Around 30,000 adults in regional NSW are currently on the public dental waiting list, a parliamentary hearing on regional health will hear.
Hannah Ryan
A palliative care patient at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital has died after being infected with deadly Legionnaires disease bacteria believed to have come from contaminated water at the hospital.
Briana Fiore
The head of Pfizer predicts people will need to get a COVID-19 vaccine every year to boost population immunity.
Jane Kirby and Ella Pickover
WA Premier Mark McGowan has been told white supremacist groups in the US are behind a sinister plot targeting vulnerable Aboriginal communities with misinformation on COVID-19 vaccinations.
Jason Mennell
Parliament’s upper house has passed a motion supporting mandatory vaccination for politicians - with just two MPs opposing it.
Charlotte Elton
Two WA Liberal Senators are among a group of conservative MPs vowing to oppose new legislation that aims to prevent a severe genetic disease in babies by creating three-person IVF embryos.
The United Australia Party distributed anti-vaccine flyers made to look like official medical information, Broken Hill's mayor has told a parliamentary inquiry.
The national capital has recorded eight new cases of COVID-19 as the number of virus patients in Canberra hospitals falls to seven.
The United Workers Union says essential staff at Adelaide hospitals will walk off the job over staffing and safety concerns.
Tim Dornin
Workers view mental health initiatives as nothing more than a ‘box ticking’ exercise, a new study has found.
Caitlyn Rintoul
The Health Department may have paid St John WA over a million dollars for the thousands of hours ambulances spent ramped outside WA hospitals in November alone.
Patients are questioning why they were not told about the water contamination at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital.
In an Australian first, South Australia's parliament has passed new suicide prevention laws.
Bacteria has been detected in the water at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, forcing the hospital to reduce the number of beds available to sick patients.
Health Minister Greg Hunt is reportedly set to announce his retirement after 18 months of leading Australia’s health response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Sarah Ison
The ACT has recorded its lowest daily case number in three months, after quarantine measures were tightened for overseas arrivals in the wake of Omicron.
Where you live can dictate whether you will die of cancer, with Australians in poor areas 40 per cent more likely to, new government statistics show.
Katelyn Catanzariti
To young Aussies, COVID-19, climate change, discrimination and their impact on mental health are the biggest issues of our generation, Mission Australia says.
While the world continues to grapple with the pandemic, a new report has laid bare the massive toll cancer continues to take on Australian lives.
West Coast defender Brad Sheppard is likely to have the final say on his AFL career as lingering concussion symptoms threaten to end his 216-game career.
Eliza Reilly
Many babies could be prevented from developing cerebral palsy with a simple mineral, a new study has found, but it is not prescribed enough.
WA businesses are scrambling to collect COVID-19 vaccination records for their workforces to meet government deadlines, with many seeking legal advice about how to obtain and store the sensitive information.
Danielle Le Messurier
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