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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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Shot of a compassionate doctor comforting a young woman in a hospital waiting room; fear health scare generic

Taxpayers spent $24m to compare 70 doctors’ fees. Why burn another $7m?

A re-elected Labor government will commit $7m to the flawed website Medical Costs Finder, a $24m venture supported by only 70 of 11,000 specialists.

James Dowling

ExclusiveIndigenous

29/5/2023 : Books by Alice Duncan-Kemp , owned by Will Duncan-Kemp at his home in Toowoomba, west of Brisbane. Will is a descendant of author Alice Duncan-Kemp, who wrote a number of books, including Our Sandhill Country in 1933 about life in far western QLD outback desert country. Lyndon Mechielsen/TWAM

Blayney link to ‘problematic source’

The pages of an obscure frontier memoir provide rare insight into the potential groundwork for evidence critical to the closure of the Blayney gold mine.

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HealthHealth

BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos MARCH 3, 2025: Minister Mark Butler talks about Medicare Urgent Care Clinic's for QueenslandMinister Mark Butler in Brisbane with Labor Candidate for Brisbane, Madonna Jarrett, and Labor Candidate for Griffith, Renee Coffey.Picture: NewsWire / John Gass

Contraceptives, IVF bankrolled ahead of election

Women will have access to cheaper birth control, IVF and endometriosis treatments by May, with new entries to the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.

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KINGPIN’S SCHEMENation

Cars have been set alight near anti-Semitic vandalism in Sydney’s eastern suburbs. , Emergency services responded to reports of a car fire on Magney Street in Woollahra about 1am on Wednesday., Fire & Rescue NSW managed to extinguish the fire, however the car was vandalised along with two buildings, the footpath along Magney Street, and another car. Picture: Supplied

Albanese knew of anti-Semitic criminal ‘con’

The PM says anti-Semitic attacks co-ordinated by an offshore kingpin created ‘real fear’ for Jewish Australians as the NSW government ‘made no apologies’ for its new hate-speech laws.

Alexi Demetriadi and James Dowling

Dural plotNation

Police Minister Yasmin Catley and Police Commissioner Karen Webbb answer questions at the Budget Estimates meeting in Sydney Parliament. Picture Thomas Lisson

NSW parliament flares up over caravan ‘hoax’

The Minns government is under pressure to divulge when it first knew the caravan plot was not a ‘terrorist threat’.

James Dowling

anti-SemitismNation

Accused players in sinister plot: ex-bikie middleman to young meth addict

A former Nomad bikie boss has been unmasked as an alleged middleman for the overseas kingpin who masterminded terrifying attacks on Sydney’s Jewish community by recruiting teens, low-level criminals and drug addicts to carry out his orders.

Alexi Demetriadi and James Dowling

ExclusiveMental Health

Headspace turns to hospitals for potential reform

Mental health charities built into hospitals are willing to risk more for their patients and unify state and federal health resources, a leading hospital has appealed.

James Dowling

anti-semitismNation

WEEKEND TELEGRAPHS SPECIAL. , PLEASE CONTACT WEEKEND PIC EDITOR JEFF DARMANIN BEFORE PUBLISHING. , Social picture of Nomads president Sayed Moosawi

Ex-Nomad chief allegedly Bondi firebombing ringleader ‘James Bond’

A former high-ranking bikie boss was the alleged mysterious ‘James Bond’ who directed criminals to firebomb a Bondi brewery they appeared to mistake for a Jewish kosher deli.

Alexi Demetriadi, James Dowling and Joanna Panagopoulos

ExclusiveIndigenous

UPSIZED BUT STILL VERY LO RES: Former Wiradyuri Traditional Owners Central West Aboriginal Corporation director Brian Grant. Picture: AHIMS

‘Misuse of elder’s image’ ignites family fury

The Bathurst Wiradyuri corporation behind a string of heritage claims has ‘slipped away from any cultural guidance’ its former leader had established, his family claim, striking out against the alleged appropriation of his image.

James Dowling

Remembering the pandemicHealth

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - DECEMBER 11: Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison (centre) together with State Premiers Annastacia Palaszczuk (left), Daniel Andrews and Gladys Berejiklian address the media in the Main Committee Room at Parliament House, on December 11, 2020 in Canberra, Australia. Australia's leaders are meeting face to face for the first time in nine months, after Prime Minister Scott Morrison convened 32 virtual meetings of the National Cabinet with premiers and chief ministers since March to coordinate responses to COVID-19. (Photo by Sam Mooy/Getty Images)

Scourge of coronavirus is still killing the vulnerable

Research shows undiagnosed Covid cases and the long-term health impacts of the pandemic have driven an enduring decline of life expectancy.

James Dowling

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