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Lockdowns, border closures exempt in pandemic inquiry

Experts will look into Australia's response to the COVID-19 pandemic, but decisions taken by the states on lockdowns or border closures will be exempt.

AAP

Commissioner demands release of UN report – as it happened

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The Guardian - AU

Vape stores opening near Australian schools to ‘recruit new generation to nicotine’, Mark Butler says

Companies skirting regulations by labelling e-cigarettes as ‘nicotine-free’ despite them containing the drug

The Guardian - AU

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Number of vapes seized in NSW increases by 500% in three years as state clamps down on ‘alarming trend’

Exclusive: More than 182,000 vapes were seized by NSW Health last year and the number of inspections more than doubled

The Guardian - AU

Jim Chalmers accuses Peter Dutton of being ‘chief propagandist’ of no campaign amid heated voice referendum debate – as it happened

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The Guardian - AU

Facility accused of exorcisms and gay conversion practices applied for funding a month after Morrison announced it

Freedom of information documents show officials scrambling for information after then PM announced $4m for Esther Foundation

The Guardian - AU

Atagi recommends additional Covid vaccine booster for people over 75 – as it happened

Health minister’s office confirms government has accepted expert body’s advice

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'Safe place for disclosure': GP training to help survivors

'Knowing where to go to get support can be difficult.'

Newcastle Herald

500 Hunter jobs under threat, but medicine costs halved

'To meet our loan repayments, we will have to reduce staff.'

Newcastle Herald

Australia’s vaping crackdown to be enforced with new laws

Exclusive: After announcing most forms of vaping would be banned, the Albanese government will legislate changes and boost agencies’ powers

The Guardian - AU

Mary-Louise McLaws, epidemiologist who guided Australia through Covid, dies aged 70 from brain cancer

Health minister says professor and WHO advisor was ‘an incredibly calm, articulate voice at a time that was very frightening’

The Guardian - AU

Cheaper prescriptions plan to proceed as Senate votes down Coalition attempt to block 60-day dispensing

Patients will be able to buy two months of medicine from pharmacies for price of one, saving more than $1.6bn over four years

The Guardian - AU

Opposition to launch further attempt to disallow plan after defeat – as it happened

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The Guardian - AU

Coalition will seek to block Labor plan for cheaper medicine after backlash from pharmacies

Opposition won’t support 60-day dispensing policy that allows patients to buy two months of medicine for price of one over concerns community pharmacies will be forced to close

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Home affairs cyber survey exposed personal data of participating firms

Shadow minister says leak of ‘sensitive’ information after research into the Optus and Medibank hacks was ‘deeply ironic’

The Guardian - AU

Philip Morris making deals with Australian pharmacies to supply below-cost vaping products

VEEV nicotine pods and devices offered at an 80% margin on the condition pharmacies sign supply deal with the tobacco giant

AAP

Pharmacies receive $377m medication sweetener

Pharmacies will be paid thousands more to dispense medicines from July 1 as part of a government funding boost.

The Guardian - AU

Rules should be tightened to stop ‘unjustifiably partisan’ grants programs such as car park rorts, review finds

Audit committee calls for crackdown on politicised funding schemes following controversy over urban congestion and building better regions funds

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Wider screening for rare health conditions in babies

Newborns will be tested for a wider range of rare health conditions in a promised overhaul that also seeks to iron out differences in screening between states.

The Conversation

'The dirty disease' – both smokers and non-smokers get lung cancer. They face stigma on top of illness

Earlier this year, federal health minister Mark Butler announced a new national Lung Cancer Screening Program. The first of its kind for lung cancer, the screening program will open initially to current and former smokers aged 50 to 70 years by July 2025. It aims to save lives by detecting…

The Times of India

Missing 'Titanic' submarine: What we know about the 'Titan'

Missing \'Titanic\' Submarine: What We Know About the \'Titan\'

The Guardian - AU

Will hundreds of Australian pharmacies close over dispensing changes or is it just a scare campaign?

We look at how the claims of potentially 20,000 job losses, medicine shortages and billion-dollar revenue falls stack up

The Independent UK

Deep-sea craft carrying 5 people to Titanic wreckage reported missing, search underway

A search is underway for a missing submersible that carries people to view the wreckage of the Titanic

The Guardian - AU

Warren Entsch denies he helped LNP donor get Pfizer vaccine during supply crisis

Allegation raised in parliament that MP arranged for property developer Alex Sekler to travel to Torres Strait for Covid jab referred to state corruption watchdog

AAP

MP denies quid pro quo over COVID-19 jab for donor

The federal health minister has accused Liberal MP Warren Enstch of allowing a wealthy donor to use a COVID-19 vaccine dose intended for Indigenous people.

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