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• Transport women suffer indignities over personal care 24-11-2025

  Women in the transport industry are being forced to carry soiled period products in their pockets due to inadequate access to clean and safe bathrooms. Conditions faced by female workers were highlighted in a union report released on Monday that d

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• Women in transport want sanitary standards overhaul 24-11-2025

  Women in the transport industry are being forced to carry used period products in their pockets and jeopardise their health and dignity due to inadequate access to clean and safe bathrooms. A union report released on Monday found that 82 per cent

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• Australia at a crossroads on the wellbeing of children 24-11-2025

  Australian children do not feel hopeful about their futures, with many citing financial concerns and housing as their main worries. The inaugural State of Australia's Children report provides a snapshot of the nation's children and teenage

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• Ignored, unaware: mums highlight mental health battles 23-11-2025

  When Katrina Weynberg began experiencing severe mental health issues after prematurely giving birth to twin boys, her symptoms were initially brushed under the carpet. "No one took it seriously until my husband said there is something serious

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• Burden of a deadly cancer hitting women in their prime 23-11-2025

  When Carolyn Groves found out she had advanced ovarian cancer, a consultant bluntly told her to get her affairs in order. "Ovarian cancer is one of those diseases where you can feel totally normal until you drop dead," the former nurse f

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• CDC adopts Kennedy's anti-vaccine views on website 23-11-2025

  The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recast the vaccine safety section of its website to align with the view of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that childhood vaccines cause autism, countering decades of science showing them t

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• Johnson government response to COVID 'chaotic' 21-11-2025

  Former UK prime minister Boris Johnson oversaw a toxic, chaotic and dithering response to the COVID-19 pandemic, with a delay to locking the country down resulting in about 23,000 more deaths, a report by a public inquiry says. The United Kingdom

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• Treasurer blocks US takeover of Aussie pharma company 21-11-2025

  A big-money bid for an Australian medicine maker has been scuppered by Treasurer Jim Chalmers after the Foreign Investment Review Board found the deal was not in the national interest. The sticking point for the $672 million acquisition of Mayne P

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• Why Young Australians Are the Most Stressed Generation: Inside Gen Z's Mental-Health Landscape 20-11-2025

  Walk through any university campus or scroll through any youth-focused social feed in Australia and you’ll hear a common thread: young Australians are struggling. Gen Z — those born from the mid-1990s to early 2010s — is experiencin

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• 'Not good enough': hospital funding feud spills over 20-11-2025

  State and territory leaders have met to break a deadlock on federal hospital funding as research reveals billions of wasted dollars. Premiers and chief ministers talked turkey on Wednesday morning as crunch time approaches on negotiations with Can

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