Data has revealed that over a third (38%) of health and wellness professionals are yet to file their tax return despite the looming October 31 deadline. Tax and accounting service Hnry have revealed in their quarterly Sole Trader Pulse report that ...
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Lessons for the next pandemic: where did Australia go right and wrong in responding to COVID?
Adrian Esterman, University of South Australia; Guzyal Hill, Charles Darwin University; Hassan Vally, Deakin University; Kim M Caudwell, Charles Darwin University; Michael Toole, Burnet Institute; Steven McGloughlin, Monash University, and Tari Turner, Monash University With COVID still classified as an ...
More »‘National scandal’: Only 1-in-100 rentals are affordable for essential workers
Barely one-in-100 rentals in Australia are affordable for the average nurse, construction worker, early childhood educator or hospitality worker. Anglicare Australia has crunched the numbers and finds essential workers who can get a rental have essentially no money left to live ...
More »World first as NSW identifies number of people with metastatic breast cancer
In a global first, almost 8,000 people have been identified by linking existing data as living with incurable breast cancer in New South Wales. Cancer Institute NSW has linked data sets from Australian cancer registry, hospitals and clinical treatments, the ...
More »Genome sequencing developed to trace Covid is now protecting babies in intensive care from infectious diseases
Rhys Thomas White, ESR; David Winter, ESR, and Suzanne Manning, ESR Anyone who has spent time inside a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) knows it’s intense. For the tiny babies cared for in these wards, any infection could prove fatal. ...
More »Both paid and unpaid carers sacrifice their own wellbeing, data shows
Concerning figures have been released regarding the mental, physical and financial wellbeing of the nation's carers. The Palliative Care Australia (PCA) national workforce survey has analysed the impact of the growing demand and resource challenges associated with palliative care on ...
More »One of science’s greatest achievements: how the rapid development of Covid vaccines prepares us for future pandemics
Since Covid was first reported in December 2019, there have been more than 775 million recorded infections and more than seven million deaths from the disease. This makes Covid the seventh-deadliest pandemic in recorded history. Factors including climate change, disruption ...
More »NSW nurses agree to interim wage increase, pay negotiations continue
NSW nurses have come to an interim agreement with the state government after a lengthy wage dispute, which led to nurses walking off the job for 24 hours. NSW Health Minister Ryan Park confirmed a proposal had been accepted nearly a week ...
More »Greens push for free GP visits
The Greens are vowing to push major healthcare reforms into any parliamentary negotiations after next year’s election, banking on Labor being forced to form a minority government. Last Thursday, Greens leader Adam Bandt unveiled his party’s ambitious plan to make ...
More »‘He had no symptoms’: how wearable tech can help older Indigenous people catch heart problems – and save lives
Many people with atrial fibrillation don’t have any symptoms. But this heart condition – which involves an irregular and often rapid heartbeat – increases the risk of stroke and heart failure, especially if untreated. Wearable devices such as smart watches ...
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