Healthcare

On The Streets is a new podcast by Green Left giving you bite-sized updates about the protest movements and grassroots campaigns across the country.

Nurses, hospital staff and supporters held a lunchtime rally outside Newcastle’s Mater Hospital, to demand better patient and staff safety. Steve O’Brien reports.

After years of frustration and major inquiries recommending voluntary assisted dying for the Northern Territory, Suzanne James writes that the campaign to force the Country Liberal Party to introduce a bill is looking promising.

Few things impact the human experience more than living with a disability. The creation of the NDIS was a welcome relief, argues Suzanne James, but now its architects are planning to hand “choice and control” to an algorithm without human oversight and no right of appeal. 

Psychologically injured workers will have their support payments cut after two-and-half-years, in new laws proposed by NSW Labor and agreed to by the Liberal-National Coalition. Jim McIlroy reports.

The Australian Institute of Criminology has just released a report showing that 33 First Nations people died in prison custody, police custody and custody-related operations and youth detention over 2024–25 — the highest such number since 1979–80. Kerry Smith reports.

Scientists and their union are speaking out against Labor’s funding cuts to the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation. Jim McIlroy reports.