Living costs more stressful than pandemic

12 October

Cost of living pressures have overtaken the pandemic as Australians’ greatest source of worry, according to a survey released on World Mental Health Day. Mental health charity Beyond Blue surveyed 1500 people and found inflation, rising interest...[Read More]

Booster campaign in long war against COVID

7 September

With COVID-19 restrictions relaxing everywhere from airports to footy stadiums, millions of Australians are being exposed to the virus including almost three in 10 adults yet to have a booster shot. National cabinet has agreed that from Friday there...[Read More]

Global research centre for ‘next pandemic’

31 August

A new global centre will be set up in Australia to develop a drug breakthrough equivalent to mRNA vaccine technology for the next pandemic. Canadian and New Zealand businessman Geoffrey Cumming, who lives in Melbourne, is donating $250 million to...[Read More]

What Bill Gates is afraid of

6 February

What’s likeliest to kill more than 10 million human beings in the next 20 years? It’s probably not what you’d think.