The Treasurer’s comments follow plunging rates of revenue driven by the tobacco excise as smokers turn to the black market for cheaper cigarettes.
Jessica Wang
Popular grocery items have been recalled from stores in two states over contamination concerns, with consumers urged not to eat the products.
Clareese Packer
The family of a Perth teenager who is battling a sixth relapse of leukaemia are desperately trying to fund potentially lifesaving treatment overseas after exhausting all medical options in Australia.
Rhianna Mitchell and Liam Murphy
Drunk passengers, medical emergencies and blow-ups over ham-and-cheese toasties. It’s all in a day’s work for Qantas and Virgin flight attendants.
Duncan Evans
A surgeon has been reprimanded and fined after sharing a photo of a comatose patient’s penis, which was tattooed with a swastika.
Nathan Schmidt
Concerns those most vulnerable will continue to fall through “growing cracks” in one sector have grown amid a suite of demands.
Optical illusion billboards are popping up across one major city after shocking data revealed 97 per cent of Aussies reported this concern.
There are new calls to overhaul a driving law in one state, with claims Aussies shouldn’t be forced to choose between their medicine and their freedom.
Residents have been issued with an urgent health warning after a gross find in a reservoir.
East Narrogin Primary School students brought their fluffy friends to class for the annual Teddy Bear Hospital last week to promote health and well-being and relieve hospital anxiety
Hannah Whitehead
Anthony Albanese has made a major election promise that would bolster one aspect of Australian life he calls “the envy of the world”.
Blair Jackson
Anthony Albanese will amp up Labor’s election bid with a huge cost-of-living promise that will bring down the cost of four out of five medications.
Body image experts have slammed social media’s ‘chubby filter’ trend as fatphobic, fat-shaming and warned it could encourage eating disorders.
Kate Emery
A prominent Liberal Party figure and former defence minister has undergone a serious medical operation.
An Australian man with a terminal illness got his last wish just weeks before his death after his friend launched a fundraiser to make his dream come true.
A health alert has been issued after a traveller returned to a major city and visited several locations while they were infected with measles.
Emma Kirk
Australian researchers are calling for volunteers to take part in a ground breaking study which will help improve diagnosis, treatment and the management of anxiety.
Artemisia Blythe
Two Aussie best friends have created a booming business venture after realising they had a deeply personal connection to a terrifying disease.
Holly Truelove
An Australian man has shared how a split-second ‘silly’ decision on a day out with friends completely changed his life.
Alexandra Feiam
Could your health, lifespan, energy levels and fertility all be improved by simply taking a supplement? It sounds like science fiction, yet research is increasingly showing it might be possible.
Angela Pownall
A second person has died this year in one Australian state from a deadly mosquito-borne virus - prompting an urgent health warning.
A major announcement has been made after a two-year-old boy died after receiving care at hospital and being wrongly triaged.
The broad sense of loneliness and disconnection among young people today strikes me as the most concerning aspect of the Youth in Focus report.
Kim Macdonald
The lion’s share of young Australians say the cost of living crisis is one of the biggest issues in the country today, according to dire findings.
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