Just as we have the country’s smartest legal minds on the High Court, and our best health practitioners setting vaccine policy, the review wants the best economists to set monetary policy.
Now that the TGA approved promising medicines, it’s important we get the rollout right to ensure those suffering have access to what could be an important ingredient in solving the mental health crisis.
It’s imperative we build national capacity programs for healthcare professionals to respond and manage climate change-related impacts on health, disasters, and risk reductions.
This week on Monash University's podcast, “What Happens Next?”, learn how emerging technologies are changing the way we think about soldiers, and the way soldiers think about their jobs.
Limiting the powers of Victoria’s chief health officer is the right thing to do as we shift from fighting COVID-19 to living with it.
The Victoria OHS regulator’s charging of the state’s health department for failing to keep hotel quarantine workers safe from COVID-19 serves as a warning ahead of the nation opening.
Does it matter that NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has stopped having daily media briefings?
The next months are going to remain difficult. But I’m still hopeful about the future. There will come a point when enough people are vaccinated that case numbers begin to decrease.
What COVID-19 restrictions can Australia’s federal health minister impose … and could you really go to prison?
When he volunteered to become one of the public faces of Victoria’s COVID-19 health response, Professor Allen Cheng’s life changed course dramatically – and accelerated.
Spoken communication is about more than words. Conversation analysis explains how "ums" and "uhs" facilitate the way we convey information.
A single centralised institute dedicated to infectious diseases and planning for potential future pandemics wouldn’t work in Australia.
We trust our teachers – we should also trust how they use evidence to inform teaching and learning.
Just four of Australia's 20 biggest super funds still have no emissions reduction targets or commitments.
They're low-cost medicines that can be easily accessed, and are being used to treat seriously ill COVID-19 patients.
Resolving the COVID-19 crisis in aged care requires more than extra funds – it requires a national, evidenced-based plan. Here's what one should look like.
Takeaway coffee, yes; a stroll through Bunnings, no. The Victorian government has introduced tough stage four business restrictions to crack down on COVID-19 workplace transmission.
Absent other voices, public health emergency response measures risk being overly prescriptive and unnecessarily wide-reaching.
Multicultural leaders say it's vital to involve their communities in COVID-19 response strategies, tailor messaging to community values, and choose trusted messengers to deliver it.
As rates of COVID-19 community transmission in Victoria increase, so too does the importance of wearing masks, but they're not the silver bullet in the fight against the disease's spread.
A new collection project aims to crack the COVID-19 immunity code, and predict who will be hardest-hit.
How might the controlling of human mobility translate into a "new normal" beyond the coronavirus pandemic?
Drawing on a passion that runs through his family, Dr Sandro Demaio returns to Australia to improve people’s wellbeing – starting in the kitchen.
Meet Graham Hawke, the BOM’s backroom strategist helping climate-sensitive industries and governments prepare for future weather events.
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