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With a hot summer expected in Australia, only global action by governments can achieve the society-level change required to tackle climate change.

Steve Robson, Greg Mullins, David Templeman

Patients from culturally or linguistically diverse backgrounds are at a higher risk of experiencing harm during health care, highlighting the need for clinicians to adapt their approach to better engage with these patients.

Reema Harrison, Bronwyn Newman, Ashfaq Chauhan

There must be a better approach to measuring a junior doctors’ skills, commitment and knowledge than the current battery of examinations, writes a trainee who obtained the highest clinical examination score at their training hospital.

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The recently announced National Lung Cancer Screening Program has the potential to deliver significant health outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, but only if the program is codesigned by the communities who need it most.

Annika Howells

More government investment is needed to help adolescents stop vaping, and from taking it up in the first place, the results of an Australian study have found.

Sam Hunt

Professor Kelvin Kong, a prominent otolaryngology, head and neck surgeon, believes the majority of Australians would vote Yes to the Voice to Parliament if given the right information, and that the medical community has a role to play.

Becca Whitehead

Four people working  in the NT’s Top End share perspectives on the potential impact of the Voice to Parliament on health outcomes for First Nations peoples.

Stuart Yiwarr McGrath, Mark Mayo, Anna Ralph, Vicki Kerrigan

Australia needs to commit to more research examining the neurological symptoms that can result from COVID-19.

Sam Hunt

Time is running out for Australia to establish a coordinated national response to the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria infections.

Annika Howells