Leading scientists have raised concerns about the role of ‘captain’s picks’ in the Medical Research Future Fund.
The former Coalition government gave out substantial grants without competition to charities or scientists who personally lobbied for funding.
The Medical Research Future Fund is supposed to back cutting-edge research. Insiders claim its ‘unusual’ structure allows the health minister to hold too much sway.
Independent Kooyong MP Monique Ryan bills taxpayers $28,000 for business class flights
Liber Pharmaceuticals is poised to capitalise if Australia succeeds in becoming the first country to regulate nicotine vapes as medical products sold to people with a doctor’s prescription but banned for general use.
Greg Hunt is on a mission to make Melbourne the new Boston or Cambridge,but in his first interview since leaving politics,he also draws attention to COVID deaths and calls for Liberal Party diversity.
The controversy over a cut to the number of Better Access psychology sessions is distracting us from a much bigger crisis.
Thirteen moderate Liberal MPs wrote to Scott Morrison with two demands. Seven of them no longer sit in parliament.
The multinational companies – which supply the nation’s hospitals with medical devices such as hip joints,screws,pacemakers and trauma plates – have been accused of shifting the profits they are making in Australia to other countries including Singapore and Switzerland.
Catholic Health Australia says operations will be cancelled and regional services shut down if insurers no longer foot the bill for common surgical items such as staples,sponges and glues.
A new book into Australia’s pandemic response details the at-times rocky relationship between the federal and state governments.