Health Policy

South Australia will drop its border ban with Victoria from the beginning of next month, dependent on no major new outbreak of COVID-19 cases.

Voluntary assisted dying is a step closer in Tasmania after legislation to legalise the practice passed the state's upper house. Tasmania

Latest figures show people living in low-income areas face a longer wait for radiotherapy cancer treatment than those in wealthier regions.

A series of new COVID-19 restrictions have been clarified by Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews, who also confirmed the make-up his new ministry.

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews says the state government is negotiating with crossbenchers over the controversial COVID-19 Omnibus bill.

Cairns Hospital will be upgraded and expanded to become a university hospital, with the Queensland government committing $53 million to the project.

Access to childcare will be limited in Melbourne as part of the stage-four lockdown, with arrangements being confirmed on Wednesday night.

Prisoners accused of assaulting guards in Western Australia will be forced to undergo testing for HIV and other infectious diseases under proposed laws.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has unveiled a free childcare package to save the sector and help working parents as the coronavirus death toll rose to 24.

Some travel insurers offer a little known optional extra that could save Aussie travellers forced to cancel their trips because of the coronavirus outbreak.

Physiotherapists play a vital recovery role in many of life’s common and inevitable health challenges, yet remain undervalued and underfunded, according to the Australian

New figures show, one in 15 hospitalisations in Australia could have been avoided with better preventative health care.  An Australian Institute of Health

New federal government draft alcohol guidelines recommend having no more than four standard drinks on any one day and no more than 10 standards drinks in a week.

A new study says key health policies on alcohol and tobacco prevented more than five per cent of total cancer deaths in Australia between the 1960s and 2013.

As SA remains the last state in the nation to decriminalise abortion, hundreds have rallied to give local MPs a push to support bills before parliament.

Think you are sick to death of politicians? When they later become lobbyists they really can be bad for your health, a new study says. Some

SA Health is offering voluntary redundancies across major public hospitals in Adelaide, with up to 1100 jobs possibly cut. Voluntary redundancies

It was a key plank of what was dubbed the most significant package of private health insurance

Public drunkenness will be decriminalised in Victoria on the eve of a coronial inquest into the death of an Aboriginal woman who died in police custody.

Joint research from the University of Sydney and the University of Western Australia indicates a majority of Australians support the "No Jab, No Pay" policy.