The Australian Christian Lobby is wrong. Australians don’t support a gag rule
Australians overwhelmingly support access to reproductive health services for women in the Pacific Islands – and they support Australia funding it
Sarah Wilson on living with anxiety: there’s no sugarcoating mental illness
Her cookbook I Quit Sugar made her the face of health and wellness, but Wilson’s memoir, First, We Make the Beast Beautiful, traverses much darker terrain
Several home pregnancy tests recalled after false negative results reported
Family planning clinic alerts regulator to product’s deficiencies, leading to market sweep exposing more faulty devices
Indigenous sexual health funding cut without consultation, senators told
Two defunded programs say LGBTQI people will be less likely to seek medical care, accusing government of shortsightedness
Private health insurance up by 4.8%, a rise of $200 a year for families
The health minister, Greg Hunt, says increase the lowest in 10 years for the 13m Australians affected
Health fund HCF divests from fossil fuels, saying industry harms members
In Australia-first move, private fund to pull $20m out of fossil fuel companies in acknowledgement climate change harms health
Good vibes: selling sex toys online to fund sexual health programs
A new Australian social enterprise is tackling sexual objectification in advertising and an ‘unwritten moral code’ while selling sex toys for a good cause
The emotional life of men: ‘you’ll be right’ isn’t enough anymore
We have grown up into a society in which males fear sharing emotion with one another, and we continue to teach boys that emotion is not okay
Brave new world: implantables, the future of healthcare and the risk to privacy
Implantable medical technology and the data it collects will revolutionise the healthcare industry – but will we get round the privacy and the ‘ick’ factors?
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