James Dowling

James DowlingScience and Health Reporter

James Dowling is a reporter in The Australian’s Sydney bureau. As an intern at The Age he was nominated for a Quill award for News Reporting in Writing for his coverage of the REDcycle recycling scheme. When covering health he writes on medical innovations and industry.

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Doctors divided on digital records fix

Doctors will likely soon be obligated to provide patients with digital access to test results, provoking appeals not to crack down on noncompliance.

James Dowling

Mental healthHealth

Headspace flails under demand

The majority of headspace users see no improvement to health outcomes, and its chief executive is appealing for structural reform to change that.

James Dowling

Trans youthHealth

A new transgender flag will fly permanently outside Treasury Place just days after an anti-trans rally took place in Melbourne. Premier Daniel Andrews on Tuesday announced the Progress flag would be a permanent fixture outside the Victorian government offices.

Labor’s blocking move on gender

Labor’s plan to take nearly two years to review transgender medicine for children and teens has been condemned as ‘just a device to avoid dealing with the issue’ as the new federal probe effectively halts any attempts by states to ban puberty blockers.

Sarah Ison and James Dowling

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Australian man Oscar Jenkins was captured by Russian forces in Ukraine. Picture: Screengrab

Authorities want to meet Jenkins in person to prove he is alive

Australian diplomats want Ukrainian and humanitarian counterparts to meet in-person with Oscar Jenkins in Russia, as Anthony Albanese says he refuses to take ‘the Putin regime at face value’.

James Dowling and Joanna Panagopoulos

Alice SpringsPolitics

Federal Opposition leader Peter Dutton with NT Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro in Alice Springs on Wednesday, January 29, 2025. Picture: Gera Kazakov

‘Enough is enough’: Dutton pledges to crack down on crime

Major changes to Centrelink access recommended by the Territory government will be at the forefront of the Coalition’s policy for cutting crime in Alice Springs.

James Dowling and Liam Mendes

Politics NowNation

COMPOSITE 16:9 - Australia's four big banks Commonwealth, Westpac, NAB, ANZ. Picture: NCA Newswire

Coalition MPs to big bank CEOs: Quit net zero alliance

A group of eight Coalition MPs want the major banks to follow their US counterparts in pulling out of the UN-backed Net Zero Banking Alliance after Donald Trump’s election, saying membership risks hurting business competitiveness and access to finance.

Greg Brown, James Dowling and Noah Yim

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Melbourne, Victoria - January 21, 2025: Professor Allen Cheng has been awarded an Order of Australia for his service to medicine as an epidemiologist, and for his work in national and international public health policy. Professor Cheng was one of the key experts Australians relied on during the Covid pandemicPicture: The Australian / Nadir Kinani

Covid honour roll to be phased out

Special measures to honour emergency workers and public servants in the pandemic have been clawed back, slowing any future acknowledgment of national contributions from the time.

James Dowling

Hospitals understaffedHealth

Australia to pull nurses from overseas

Internationally registered nurses from the UK, Ireland, the US, Singapore, Spain and Canada will soon be able to practice in Australia faster than ever.

James Dowling

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The Daily TelegraphÃs Bush Summit in Orange 29.8.2024 Jim Beyer, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Regis Resources. Picture: Rohan Kelly

Revealed: staff not sent to assess mine site

Work has begun to redevelop the Blayney gold mine in line with a bombshell heritage decision which was made without on-site investigations.

James Dowling

anti-Semitism crackdownNation

A second man has been arrested after an alleged attempt to set a religious building on fire in Newtown earlier this month., , , , , About 7.30am on Saturday 11 January 2025, officers attached to Inner West Police Area Command were notified after graffiti was spray painted on a synagogue on Georgina Street, Newtown., , , , , Initial inquiries revealed two people attended the synagogue earlier that morning and allegedly spray-painted graffiti on the building and fence, while also attempting to light the premises on fire., , , , , A 33-year-year-old man was arrested and charged on Tuesday (21 January 2025) and remains before the court., , , , , Following further inquiries, Strike Force Pearl detectives attended a hotel on Pyrmont Street, Darling Harbour, about 1pm today (Thursday 23 January 2025).

Second Sydney synagogue alleged attacker charged

After a night in hospital, the second suspect in the attempted arson of Newtown Synagogue in inner Sydney has been charged with property damage and the display of Nazi symbols.

James Dowling

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