Smoking

Health minister Mark Butler has announced the three strains of focus for looming Medicare reforms, which include updating old technology.

The AFP dealt with 748 incidents at airports in the past seven months, including public disturbances, intoxication and offensive behaviour. 

Shouldn’t we place health front and centre of our COVID-19 economic recovery and dare to reimagine our cities and energy systems, that our children might have a healthy future?

Like sex and death, drugs and alcohol are historical facts of life that have been zones of hot-blooded political debate, but also of genuine bipartisanship. Part 2 of the ‘Politics of the unmentionables’. 

There are few bright spots in the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ National Health Survey results.

Jane Halton is back in the news today for comments about the relative impact of smoking and gambling.

The Australian government had to fight every step of the way for its tobacco plain packaging regulation since it was introduced in 2012. But it was worth it, a regulatory review has revealed for the first time.

Tobacco companies have requested survey data on young people’s smoking habits in the UK and in Australia. Gerard Hastings from University of Stirling says when an FOI request from Philip Morris arrived, it stretched his unit almost to breaking point.

A review of studies aimed at helping indigenous people beat smoking provides some guidance to policymakers. But more and higher quality research needs to be done.