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• Saving lives, playing gigs all in a country practice 08-07-2026

  By day, Tony McLellan is a respected doctor who has delivered countless babies, revived heart attack patients and cared for disaster victims in a make-shift rural intensive care unit. By night, he's the bass player in pub rock-country-folk out

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• 'Pure elation': Aussie IVF innovation sparks baby joy 08-07-2026

  Years of trying to fall pregnant without success left Annie and her partner Jack feeling ashamed, confused and frustrated. That turned to joy after the couple joined a study testing a pioneering 3D-printed IVF device smaller than the width of a hu

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• Precautions urged as sixth bird flu case confirmed 08-07-2026

  Poultry farmers have been advised to keep free-range hens inside temporarily as authorities respond to an emerging bird flu threat. The deadly H5N1 strain has now been confirmed in a migratory bird in NSW, making it Australia's sixth confirmed

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• Sitting more than half an hour raises cancer death risk 07-07-2026

  Sitting down for more than 30 minutes every day may increase the risk of dying from cancer, a study has found. Researchers at the University of Glasgow found sitting or reclining for more than half an hour at a time every day was linked with a hig

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• Thousands of deaths blamed on European heatwave 07-07-2026

  France, the Netherlands and Belgium have recorded 3700 ‌excess deaths during the June heatwave that sent temperatures soaring across Europe, ‌with authorities warning that the numbers are preliminary and could rise. Experts have ‌sa

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• What we know about Australia's latest bird flu outbreak 07-07-2026

  H5N1 BIRD FLU IN AUSTRALIA HOW MANY CONFIRMED CASES ARE THERE IN AUSTRALIA?[subscribe] * There are five confirmed cases of H5N1 bird flu as of July 3 * June 19 - brown skua confirmed in Esperance, about 700km south of Perth, WA * June 23

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• More than 120 passengers hit with virus on cruise ship 06-07-2026

  More than 120 passengers and crew members aboard a Princess Cruises ship have became sick in a norovirus outbreak during an Alaska and Canada voyage. The Ruby Princess was on a 20-day round trip journey from San Francisco to Canada and Alaska when

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• Trial for Bundibugyo Ebola treatment starts in DR Congo 06-07-2026

  A treatment trial for the Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has enrolled its first ‌patient, marking a milestone in efforts to combat the epidemic, World Health Organisation chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says. T

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• Labor backs down on irreversible age care algorithm 06-07-2026

  Humans will be allowed to overrule a controversial automation tool that determined aged care assessments after complaints that decisions could not be reversed. The federal minister in charge insists artificial intelligence is not being used to dec

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• Labor-led committee calls for tougher NDIS fraud rules 05-07-2026

  Dodgy disability providers could be named and shamed, fines for bad conduct increased and greater powers granted to agencies overseeing the NDIS in a bid to crack down on fraud in the scheme. As the federal government plans to kick hundreds of tho

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