9+ hour ago  (515+ words) April 16, 2026 " 5: 00am Australia's medicinal cannabis industry has grown too fast for the good of its own users. The industry's bullishness has been curtailed after commercially driven high-volume prescribing turned patient wellbeing into a secondary consideration. The Herald's Angus Thomson reveals a…...

4+ hour, 8+ min ago  (718+ words) April 16, 2026 " 9: 51am More than 60, 000 nurses and midwives in NSW will receive pay increases of up to 28 per cent after the industrial court acknowledged the majority-female workforce had been historically undervalued, ending a two-year battle with the state's Labor government. The NSW…...

9+ hour ago  (552+ words) April 16, 2026 " 5: 00am Medicinal cannabis sales in Australia have fallen sharply for the first time in a decade as regulators crack down on one-stop online clinics and GPs issuing dozens of scripts a day. Doctors prescribing large amounts of medicinal cannabis were…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago  (509+ words) Updated April 15, 2026 " 9: 28am, first published 7: 28am NSW pharmacists will be able to prescribe the contraceptive pill directly to women without a GP appointment. The reform, announced on Wednesday by the state government, will give women faster, more convenient access to contraception and…...

20+ hour, 33+ min ago  (364+ words) April 15, 2026 " 5: 26pm The national workplace health and safety regulator is investigating two incidents in which National Australia Bank workers died by suicide just weeks apart. On Wednesday, Comcare " the federal authority tasked with work health and safety regulation and workers" compensation…...

8+ mon, 1+ week ago  (933+ words) This was published 8 months ago Updated August 8, 2025 " 4: 11pm, first published 2: 45pm Celebrated orthopaedic surgeon Dr Munjed Al Muderis has lost his marathon defamation case against Nine, the owner of this masthead, over a series of reports alleging negligent surgery. The victory for…...

1+ day, 22+ hour ago  (437+ words) April 14, 2026 " 3: 45pm Disgraced orthopaedic surgeon Dr Munjed Al Muderis has relisted his Sydney Harbour penthouse for $18 million, $2 million less than what it was listed for in May last year. Al Muderis lost his marathon defamation case against Nine, the owner of…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago  (1127+ words) April 14, 2026 " 7: 00pm Last month, Kate Aubusson and I covered a new paper arguing that multinational corporations were the world's deadliest "vectors of disease: corporate mosquitos spreading obesity, lung cancer and microplastics. One line jumped out to a lot of readers: a…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago  (1355+ words) April 15, 2026 " 5: 00am It is the deadliest mental health condition, but specialists say treatments have not progressed for 40 years, largely because of perceptions of who gets it. Anorexia is seen as a disease of "young, white, affluent females, experts including researcher Andrea…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago  (376+ words) April 14, 2026 " 7: 00pm If you're relatively new to social media (that is, a teenager), you could be forgiven for thinking that this is how it always was. That people treating their bodies as major renovation projects that can be hacked and optimised…...