Neela Janakiramanan

Universal health care is a core Australian value, but pragmatically, governments have always sought to balance budget limitations with providing as good care to as many people as possible.

In her debut novel The Registrar, Neela Janakiramanan adeptly paints an honest and evocative portrait of hospital life for young women.

The shortlist for the 2021 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards has been announced with recognition going to 26 of this year’s best writers.

Scott Morrison has announced that “isolated and vulnerable” Australians at the epicentre of the Coronavirus outbreak in China will be evacuated and quarantined on Christmas island.  

Liberal candidate Sachin Joshi says the gender pay gap exists because female doctors are “less active/interested in pursuing business skills”. He’s wrong.

In the last few days, Dr. Yumiko Kadota’s story of brutal hours and dehumanising conditions as a registrar at Bankstown Hospital in Sydney hit headlines.

Yet another mass shooting and the NRA says that ‘self-important anti-gun’ doctors should ‘stay in their lane’. An Australian surgeon responds.

Dr Nicole Montana, a senior medical officer for Australia’s immigration processing centre on Nauru, was arrested last night on the island.

On Friday, more than 400 leaders gathered at the Sofitel in Sydney to celebrate the 6th annual Women’s Agenda Leadership Awards.