Health
Bruce Neal
For health's sake, time to take on food giants
Bruce Neal A woman dies from a 10-litre a day Coke habit. Children's clothing sports advertisements for Jim Beam bourbon.
Russell Skelton
Health reforms lost in a sea of booze
Russell Skelton We live in a culture where a middle-class mother likes her one glass of red a night, where sporting champions celebrate by showering each other with magnums of champagne and where indigenous women in...
Enrico Coiera and Farah Magrabi
More tests vital for health IT
Enrico Coiera and Farah Magrabi IT is transforming doctors' surgeries, pharmacies and hospitals.
Slash sport funding and risk nation's health
Brad Walter THERE is a certain irony that David Williamson should question the amount of funding given to sport when the play he is best known for, The Club, is about AFL.
Dannielle Miller
The toxic message in Facebook teen health and fitness sites
Dannielle Miller Thousands of girls are being sucked into an online trend to be skinny.
Warwick McFadyen
Health and safety shows rock'n'roll who's boss
Warwick McFadyen Bruce Springsteen was closing his three-hour show at Hyde Park when he brought Paul McCartney on stage to do a couple of Beatles numbers. But soon after, the music died courtesy of a 10.
Clem Bastow
The problem with health advocates is when they don't
Clem Bastow Patrick McGorry is certainly a tireless advocate for the mental health of the Australian people. In his own words, 'Half of us will experience mental ill-health during our lives' (''Mental health...
Sophie Dyson, Jamie Reid
Where there's smoke, there's good reason for higher health premiums
Sophie Dyson, Jamie Reid Governments have used several measures over the years to discourage people from smoking, including advertising restrictions, taxes, preventative health campaigns and plain packaging for cigarettes.
Sam de Brito
Let's hop back to beer, in the spirit of good health
Sam de Brito Is there not a whiff of self-congratulation in the media coverage that Australians are drinking less beer?
Elizabeth Farrelly
Health of all on line as Davids fight gene giants
Elizabeth Farrelly Remember Pandora's box? In the future, when the seaside mansions have sunk and my bit of Redfern grunge is absolute waterfront, our children's children will look back
Kenneth Davidson
How to save billions: dump the desal deal
Kenneth Davidson It's official. Melbourne Water users will pay $19.4 billion in contract payments to AquaSure.
Danny Katz
Sweet treats can't hold a candle to fun police playing the heavy
Danny Katz Extract from the latest edition of Staying Healthy In Child Care, published by the Australian Government Health And Safety Tribunal (AGHAST).
The Loaded Dog
Now that the election has been called, what do Julia Gillard or Tony Abbott have to do to win your vote? What is the most important national issue in your household?
Jill Stark
The boozer stripped bare: abstaining in a world awash with grog
Jill Stark I was morning-after roadkill. My head felt as heavy as a waterlogged sandbag. Being conscious hurt. When I woke up on New Year's Day 2011, the hangover was so horrendous that I worried I might not...
Pregnant women who smoke are easy targets for the morality police
Anne Davies Hands off! Since when did pregnant women's bodies become the domain of the morality police to be shamed and humiliated when they stray and have a cigarette or a glass of wine?
Sarah Rainey
What? No children? Fending off the final female taboo
Sarah Rainey Childlessness is on the rise. But why does it bother so many people?
Gabi Hollows
Fred Hollows' dream lives on, and its realisation is in sight
Gabi Hollows Twenty years ago this Sunday, we lost Fred. I say we, because by the time Fred died he was more than just my husband or our children's father. He'd become a national identity.
Women finally receive call-up to football's top team
Moya Dodd Former Matilda Moya Dodd has been nominated by Asia as its candidate in the coming FIFA election for the position of global women's football representative. Here she explains why.
A brave decision as legacy debate begins
Barney Zwartz Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, long Pope John Paul II's right-hand man, watched that Pope's long decline and the paralysis it caused at the top in the Vatican, the intrigues and the pursuit of agendas.
Craig Fry
High on moral panic
Craig Fry Last week we did indeed witness the blackest day in Australian sport. But the low point was the public reaction to this latest drugs-in-sport story, not the apparent truth of the matter.
