1+ week, 6+ day ago   (857+ words) Meet Paige McKay — little miss sunshine. With a smile bright enough to light up a room — this bubbly eight-year-old is a real ray of sunshine. But behind her dazzling smile and infectious laugh is a little girl who has weathered…...

2+ week, 8+ min ago   (404+ words) A top Australian health group has slammed a Senate inquiry’s push for cigarette tax cuts and commercial vapes, warning the move would throw decades of hard-fought tobacco control in the bin....

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (371+ words) With just 747 accredited interpreters serving more than 30,000 deaf Australians, advocates warn courts are failing their most vulnerable participants. Justice is said to be blind, but a chronic shortage of Auslan interpreters has also rendered it deaf More than 3.6m Australians suffer…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (646+ words) Australians are unlikely to see any immediate relief in the cost of alcohol and cigarettes as the Albanese government resists growing pressure, including from a Labor Premier, to reduce the high rates of excise forcing drinkers and smokers to the…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (212+ words) The West Australian is a leading news source in Perth and WA. Breaking local and world news from sport and business to lifestyle and current affairs. is to bring back the price of legal cigarettes into the same realm as…...