Experts fear thousands of Australians are unaware they could have cancer because they ve avoided seeing their doctor due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Almost 150,000 fewer Australians than usual were tested for cancer during the height of the pandemic in 2020.
Now, some of Australia s biggest cancer charities, have teamed up for the first time for the campaign New Normal, Same Cancer to urge anyone with any symptoms to stop putting off seeing their GP.
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CEO of government organisation Cancer Australia, Prof Dorothy Keefe, said it s important people don t wait any longer to get help.
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Raise the age of criminal responsibility, Labor MP says
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A Victorian government MP has urged his party to raise the age of criminal responsibility to 14 to keep children as young as 10 out of prison.
Broadmeadows MP Frank McGuire, who is also the parliamentary secretary for crime prevention, said governments must call out and address “systemic injustices”, including laws that disproportionately affect Aboriginal people.
Frank McGuire has urged governments to raise the age of criminal responsibility from 10 to 14.
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In July last year, the nation’s chief law makers, including Victoria’s then-attorney-general Jill Hennessy, deferred a decision to raise the age for a year after agreeing more work needed to be done to determine alternative ways to deal with young offenders.
BYO bandages: inquiry told of âhorrendousâ state of NSW hospitals
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Patients and medical staff across NSW have sounded the alarm about a crisis in the state of country hospitals, telling of wards that look like theyâve been hit by tornadoes, hospitals requesting you bring your own bandages and doctors trying to mend broken bones over videolink.
A parliamentary inquiry has been told lives are being endangered by an overburdened system plagued by chronic staff shortages.