A national plan that promised to fix the mental health system has fractured,with four states and territories holding back their support as NSW inks a $383 million deal.
Teenagers will rehearse how to seek,give and deny consent under a new national health curriculum that has the support of the country’s education ministers.
By the end of Monday,50 per cent of Victoria’s children between the ages of five and 11 will have received one dose of a coronavirus vaccine.
Victoria has reduced the interval between the second and third dose of a COVID-19 vaccine to three months as health authorities launch a “vax blitz” this weekend.
The state has reported 22,429 new COVID-19 cases and six deaths as the Chief Health Officer says infection numbers might have peaked.
First-year healthcare students and retired nurses will be among the recruits,as the nation records one of its deadliest days since the start of the pandemic.
Novak Djokovic has been implored to explain the reason he was given a medical exemption,with TA confirming most of the exemptions granted had gone to individuals with recent coronavirus infections.
Health authorities say about 30 positive COVID-19 cases are now being managed as either suspected or confirmed Omicron cases.
Disadvantaged students are falling years behind their peers in literary and numeracy skills and the gaps are continuing to widen,an analysis shows.
The global pharmaceutical company beat a dozen other businesses and organisations,including Australia’s largest vaccine producer,CSL,for federal and state funding to set up an mRNA vaccine manufacturing facility in Victoria.
The three new Omicron infections,including the state’s first case of community transmission,are linked to an international flight that landed in Melbourne from Dubai last month.