Tasmanian Times
Health
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789Mental Health Workers take Industrial Action
Mental Health workers in the South have today voted to impose workplace bans and limitations as a result of broken commitments to...
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The High Price of Poverty
Income support payments must rise according to a new report recommending action to tackle the ‘poverty penalty’ currently being paid by low...
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We were just getting out of the hospital when …
We were just getting out of the hospital (Buck and Joan in the Wars) when … … Joan gasped, holding her hand...
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Mill site works too much for air monitors
It looks like pollution from machinery at the proposed pulp mill Long Reach site has been too much for the closest ambient...
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Of all the pesticides in our food supply, this one really matters!
From the Pesticides Action Network (PAN): As kids head back to school this fall, many will find learning an extra challenge. Scientists...
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Pesticides increase diabetes risk
New science confirms that exposure to pesticides — especially those classified as persistent organic pollutants (POPs) — can impair the body’s ability...
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Air pollution and woodsmoke
Air pollution and woodsmoke are controversial subjects. A CSIRO study, partly funded by Forestry Tasmania, found that in Geeveston, a Huon Valley...
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Cuts to Mental Health Services Put Client Lives at Risk
Members of the Health and Community Services Union (HACSU) working in Mental Health Services across Tasmania have been surveyed to find out...
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Health chief cash outrage
TAXPAYERS will pay salaries equivalent to three Royal Hobart Hospital CEOs as the State Government recruits the hospital’s 10th chief in less...
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Pervan: Probe terminated. Cost: $100,000 … so far
A GOVERNMENT investigation into the conduct of a senior health bureaucrat has cost the state more than $100,000 and the tab is...
