Mel Dunstan says one of her fondest memories is sitting around the dinner table at Christmas, discussing lost relatives that her grandfather found while researching her family free. She’s watched her mother and grandfather complete many branches on that family tree,...

Australians of all ages and backgrounds become homeless. In Cairns, more than 2000 people sleep on the streets every night, and across the country, that figure is more than 100,000. They are men, women and children from cities, country towns and suburbs we live in....

Minister for Health Greg Hunt says smoking and mental health will be target areas By AAP   Fewer than one in 10 Australians will smoke in five years time if the Morrison Government has its way. The nation will also soon have a strategy for improving the mental...

Australians of all ages and backgrounds become homeless. In Cairns, more than 2000 people sleep on the streets every night, and across the country, that figure is more than 100,000. They are men, women and children from cities, country towns and suburbs we live in....

The Tanks Arts Centre launched a new exhibition this week by artists who were homeless. The exhibition, Our Journeys - Homeless to Housing, displays the work of artists with a lived experience of being homeless and tells their stories. The Cairns Homelessness...

Kerry Robertson, 61, has become the first terminally ill patient to end their life under Victoria's assisted dying scheme. It emerged on Sunday that she died in a nursing home in Bendigo on 15 July after being diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer just over four...

By Emily Dunn, Clinical Features Writer for Australian Doctor Group. It’s the most infectious vaccine-preventable disease and it’s sweeping the world. Measles transmission has quadrupled in a year, according to the WHO, with 170 countries reporting 112,163 cases in...

By AAP Electronic cigarettes and heated tobacco products are not helping fight cancer, the WHO says, urging smokers and governments not to trust claims from cigarette firms about their latest products. The seventh WHO Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic 2019 said...