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The 60-day prescription reform has not caused pharmacies to close.

This powerful lobby group claimed 665 pharmacies would close. Here’s what really happened

The Pharmacy Guild claimed 60-day scripts would force pharmacies to shut and cause 20,000 job losses. The figures tell a very different story.

  • James Massola

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Veteran press gallery photographer Mike Bowers is leaving the Guardian Australia

Press gallery veteran Mike Bowers leaves Guardian Australia

The photographer, who has a weekly segment on the ABC’s Insiders program, is the latest departure from The Guardian’s Parliament House bureau.

  • Kishor Napier-Raman and Stephen Brook
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Vapes are legal again - but pharmacies allowed to sell them aren’t celebrating yet

Pharmacies can now stock therapeutic vapes – but many are holding back on ethical grounds or believe registration for the new system is too onerous.

  • Millie Muroi
Phenylephrine, a drug found commonly in cold and flu tablets, has been found to have very low efficacy.

It’s winter, your nose is runny. But these cold and flu tablets may not help

What some consumers don’t realise is that a common drug used to treat blocked noses does not work when taken in tablet, capsule or liquid form.

  • Jewel Topsfield
Chemist Warehouse has grown into one of the largest retailers in the country and will list on the ASX through Sigma Healthcare.

Chemists to lose dollar-discount option as government bows to Pharmacy Guild pressure

Chemist Warehouse will be stripped of its ability to give its customers $1 off their medicines under a change the Pharmacy Guild has been pushing for years.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos
Several hundred pharmacists protested 60-day script changes at Parliament House in September.

Labor strikes $3 billion peace deal with pharmacies after 60-day script furore

The agreement resolves a year-long spat that led to 200 pharmacy owners storming out of question time yelling obscenities.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos
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Hamish McLennan arrives in Sydney on Wednesday.

Rugby Australia chair’s wife crash-tackles the haters

Rugby fans have the knives out for RA boss Hamish McLennan. On Instagram, his wife Lucinda fought back.

  • Kishor Napier-Raman and Noel Towell
Advance Australia national director Gerard Benedet says his group speaks for mainstream Australians.

Pharmacy Guild promotes Advance Australia founder to CEO

Gerard Benedet, who ran conservative activist group Advance, will step up as the all-powerful Pharmacy Guild’s chief executive.

  • Kishor Napier-Raman and Noel Towell
Several hundred pharmacists protest outside Parliament House in Canberra on Monday and (right) members of the opposition shouted and pointed to the pharmacists in the public gallery during question time.

Pharmacists want to have their cake, eat it, and get another cake for later

Patients being able to get a 60-day supply of medicine will not destroy pharmacies and protesting against these wins isn’t the way to go.

  • Peter Breadon
Members of the opposition shouted and pointed to the pharmacists in the public gallery during question time.

Coalition refuses to condemn jeering pharmacy protesters despite Speaker’s rebuke

Milton Dick has described the behaviour in parliament as unacceptable and issued a warning to MPs who might have invited them to the building.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos

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