Tue Sep 1, 2009
The Federal Government has today released the first ever National Preventative Health Strategy – essentially three strategies at once that aim to reduce the huge real and potential burden of disease due to obesity, tobacco and the harmful use of alcohol.
Wed Mar 18, 2009
Wed 18 March 2009 from 7.30am AEDT – online For an entire day once a year, Federal Parliament lives and breathes science. ‘Science meets Parliament’ brings up to 200 scientists from all over the country to meet with parliamentarians in Canberra and the AusSMC gave journalists the opportunity to be a “fly on the wall” [...]
Thu Mar 13, 2008
Smoking rates in indigenous communities are three times higher than the Australian average, and 17% of the gap between indigenous and non-indigenous health can be directly attributed to smoking, federal politicians will be told in Canberra this Thursday.
Tue May 8, 2007
New DNA research just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the US provides further evidence that Australia was first settled by a single group of settlers who left Africa more than 55,000 years ago.