Social justice commissioner will not pursue racial discrimination complaint over ABS decision. The Australian Human Rights Commission has decided not to investigate whether the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) was discriminatory in its decision to exclude indigenous children from voluntary ...

New prevention guidelines launched in Sydney to target children. Encouraging children to exercise and eat enough calcium will be at the heart of new guidelines designed to curb Australia's growing osteoporosis problem. Health experts met in Sydney last week to ...

Victorian ANF says it’s concerned by government proposals to abolish nurse patient ratios. Victoria's nurses say they are still a long way from reaching a pay deal with the state government. Victoria's police officers are in line for a pay ...

The commitment represents the largest investment in health and medical research grants. The federal government has announced grants of more than $670 million for health and medical research. The more than 1000 grants will support researchers and research institutions through ...

SA has implemented recommendations of the state coroner to encourage babies to sleep in their own beds. Parents will be discouraged from taking babies into their own beds under new safe sleeping guidelines released by the South Australian Government. The ...

Criticism mounts over the Tasmanian government’s slashing of $60 million for elective surgery. Independent MP Andrew Wilkie has slammed the Tasmanian government for its decision to slash its elective surgery budget. The Tasmanian government will pull more than $60 million ...

The World Health Organisation will unveil new guidelines devised by an Australian academic at tomorrow’s launch. Guidelines developed in Australia to keep medical patients safe while undergoing treatment are being adopted by health workers around the world. The World Health ...

Roxon steps in to save Redcliffe super clinic with an additional $3.2 million funding. The federal government will spend an extra $3.2 million to make sure a problem-plagued GP Super Clinic in Brisbane's northern suburbs can open its doors in ...

The federal government’s vaccination program targets a leading cause of death in infants. A national vaccination program to protect children from the potentially fatal pneumococcal disease is to be rolled out from this month. Pneumococcal disease remains the most common ...

Kate Leaver reports on the latest developments in Health Workforce Australia's (HWA) reform agenda. It's more than three decades since a group of 130 remote area nurses congregated in Alice Springs with a collective goal in mind; getting the government ...