Tag: western australia
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Powerful pair recognised for decades of persistence at tobacco control
Paris Lord – PHAA Editor’s note: this Intouch post is longer than usual, but is worth your time, particularly if you can remember how ubiquitous smoking and its advertising was in Australia, and the efforts it took to counter that. It’s New Year’s Day 1992. Ascot race course, Perth.…
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More needs to be done to keep WA healthy, say public health advocates
Labor had a resounding win in the recent state election in Western Australia, but public health advocates argue that more needs to be done to keep the state’s population healthy, and COVID is far from being the only public health threat. The following series of questions was posed to Hannah…
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Airborne transmission of COVID-19 and hotel quarantine in Australia – let’s stop going round in circles
Introduction: Leading Australian public health specialist Tarun Weeramanthri is urging Australia’s Infection Control Expert Group (ICEG) and the bodies it advises, including National Cabinet, to “stop dancing around the issue of airborne transmission” and its risks for hotel quarantine and Australia’s long-term management of the coronavirus pandemic. Adjunct Professor Tarun…
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Climate change and health heats up
Ingrid Johnston The connections between climate and health, and the importance of systemic changes in Australia to recognise and address them, have been highlighted in 4 important reports released in the past week – the Lancet Countdown report 2020, the MJA-Lancet Countdown report 2020, the Climate Health WA Inquiry, and…