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James DowlingScience and Health Reporter

James Dowling is a reporter for The Australian’s Sydney bureau. He previously worked as a cadet journalist writing for the Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph and NewsWire, in addition to this masthead. As an intern at The Age he was nominated for a Quill award for News Reporting in Writing.

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virusesNation

Generic photo of a woman with the flu shot. Picture: iStock

Flu crisis fears amid ‘vaccination fatigue’ and disinformation

Flu cases continued to hit new peaks as the sick season was arriving sooner and could hit harder than ever amid ‘vaccination fatigue’ and ‘disinformation campaigns’.

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NZYQ RulingNews

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA, NewsWire Photos. FEBRUARY 12, 2024: Senator David Shoebridge during the Legal and Constitutional Affairs Additional Estimates at Parliament house in Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Greens push for ‘thorough’ probe into detainee bill

Greens senator David Shoebridge says the Labor government has not tried to negotiate on its snap migration detainee bill since it was voted down, leaving its future unresolved.

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SOS callNews

Floodwaters left five Mount Isa campers in need of rescue over the Easter Break. Picture: ABC News

Campground ‘turned into island’: mothers, children rescued

Overnight flooding has stranded a group of Easter campers in Queensland’s Gulf Country and five of them, mothers and children, have been evacuated by inflatable boat.

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Easter road blitzNews

SPRINGBREAK: Tara Police have handed out several speeding fines to start the holidays.

Man faces charges of driving drunk with children on board

The car driver allegedly had a blood alcohol level more than twice the legal limit and police allege his five passengers included a toddler without a seat belt.

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‘extraordinary life’Nation

Veteran youth worker Les Twentyman believes there has been a rise in young people joining gangs in order to feel a sense of community. Picture: Tony Gough

Social advocate Les Twentyman dies aged 76

Described as an inspiration, the 2006 Victorian of the Year was a champion for Melbourne’s western suburbs.

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EX-SENATOR’S DIAGNOSISNation

Nick Xenophon Returning to the senate, pictured on March 24th, 2022, in Adelaide.Picture: Tom Huntley

‘Ticking time bomb’: Xenophon reveals health battle

Former senator Nick Xenophon has gone public with his recent brain tumour diagnosis as he braces for major surgery later this year.

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exclusiveMental Health

Sydney University Arts and Law student Varsha (21) dealt with an eating disorder through high school and lockdown. She said that social media, especially instagram, contributed to this as it would regularly show her posts that would encourage her fixation on dieting during periods where she was trying to avoid diet culture material. She's advocated for reforms to Meta's platforms. Jane Dempster/The Australian

Meta under the microscope on eating disorders

Varsha Yajman can tell if she’s on the brink of an eating disorder relapse just from her Instagram feed. Experts fear a rise in online communities devoted to unhealthy dieting.

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exclusivePolitics

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, listens as he testifies during the US Senate Judiciary Committee hearing,

Tech titan limits viewing of political posts

Tech giant Meta will ‘turn the tap off’ on political content across its Instagram and Threads platforms, threatening to leave some Australians uninformed, the government has warned.

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Medical misconductNation

Dentist James Mina Hanna (right) leaves court with his legal team.

Dentist facing ban over failed drug tests, cocaine charges

After James Hanna was found by police with eleven bags of cocaine he failed to inform the Dental Council and went on to fail a number of drug tests.

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Top prosecutorPolitics

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA, NewsWire Photos. AUGUST 7, 2023: Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory Andrew Barr holds a press conference in Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Rattenbury’s intervention backed by Chief Minister

The ACT government has stood by Attorney-General Shane Rattenbury after the territory’s acting DPP expressed anger at a ‘highly inappropriate’ intervention in his independence.

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