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Future MP Race Mathews had an insider’s view of policy development — not least health policy — in the office of the leader of the opposition ...

It was 2014, Peter Dutton was health minister, and the Abbott government’s first budget announced that concession-card holders and other bulk-billed patients would now be charged $7 to see a GP. This ...

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It was in 1951, when I was about to turn thirteen, that I rode up the Californian coast from Los Angeles to San Francisco with my stepfather. For some reason my mother had gone ahead and we were to ...

Generations of psychiatrists, psychologists and brain scientists can remember being turned on to the fascinations of mind and brain by the Anglo-American neurologist Oliver Sacks. In a long succession ...

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