6+ hour, 5+ min ago   (926+ words) September 13, 2026 — 5:00am A record number of Victorian children are being hospitalised for dog bites, with doctors treating more than 1000 injuries over the past nine years including skull fractures and extensive facial wounds. Last year, 133 children were admitted to the state’s largest…...

6+ hour, 5+ min ago   (918+ words) September 13, 2026 — 5:00am Thea Baker has a deep understanding of what women with long-term, undiagnosed pain endure. Like hundreds of thousands of Australian women – one in seven by the age of 44-49 – she has lived with endometriosis, the condition that can cause so…...

6+ hour, 5+ min ago   (280+ words) September 13, 2026 — 5:00am Sharon Winsor is a chef and CEO. The 50-year-old shares her day on a plate. 6.30am When I wake up, I have a glass of water and give myself an hour to feed the horses, get some fresh air and…...

16+ hour, 11+ min ago   (55+ words) The Federal Government is alone in its new $5000 limit on allied health services for veterans, with politicians across other parties overwhelmingly against the move. September 12, 2026 — 6:53pm...

17+ hour, 22+ min ago   (928+ words) September 12, 2026 — 5:42pm Workers have walked off the job at Victoria’s largest disability housing provider, despite other operators brokering new workplace deals to reign in costs while trying to secure the homes for hundreds of vulnerable residents. Staff at 35 Scope homes walked…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (1150+ words) September 12, 2026 — 5:00am Rising numbers of first-time mothers with low-risk pregnancies are experiencing a “cascade” of birth interventions, from inductions to caesarean sections, analysis of more than 343,000 births in NSW reveals. More than one in four women (25.6 per cent) giving birth to…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (1411+ words) September 12, 2026 — 5:00am Nineteen of Victoria’s 21 adult mental health and wellbeing services are failing to meet their target for admitting acutely mentally unwell Victorians to a bed within eight hours. Five years after the state government promised to fix the broken mental…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (1187+ words) September 12, 2026 — 5:00am “We are at a very exciting point scientifically,” says Dr Sheila Donnelly, a helminth (worm) researcher at the University of Galway with research links to the University of Technology Sydney. “There is now a strong body of preclinical evidence…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (409+ words) From devastated careers and struggles to recognise a friend to volcanic rage or abusive behaviour: the fallout from a traumatic brain injury is often invisible to outsiders. Leary kept pace with the group up Black Mountain and down the other…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (37+ words) SMH.com.au A dead whale has been tested for bird flu after it washed up on a beach in South Australia. September 10, 2026 — 7:11pm...