A US court recently ruled the weed killer Roundup contributed to a former gardener’s cancer. Juries don’t decide science. The weight of evidence shows Roundup has little association with cancer.
Most aged-care residents don’t feel like they are loved or belong in their facility.
from shutterstock.com
Older people living in residential aged care often have few friends, no meaningful interactions and feel socially isolated. Most people are depressed and some may no longer wish to live.
The rules make it hard to make reasonable money providing a reasonable service.
Shutterstock
Australia’s aged care sector is in trouble. Our experts have previously explored the complex aspects of the system, exposing where the problems are, and have been for some time.
Specialists making their fees publicly available is one way to rein in rogue practices.
from shutterstock.com
Australia is the only country in the OECD that allows specialists complete freedom to set their own fees. This puts patients at risk – but the government can help protect them.
The sugar industry has a lot of influence over health policy.
from shutterstock.com
Australia needs a sugar tax, as part of a broader national nutrition policy, to combat the obesity crisis. And the sugar industry is getting in the way.
The sugar industry has employed various tactics to influence health policy in its favour.
from shutterstock.com
Tonight, Four Corners looks at the tactics Big Sugar has used to influence health policy. Here’s our pick of five analysis pieces that will get you informed on the issue before the program airs.
A Fairfax/ATO investigation suggests the tax office has broken the trust of taxpayers.
www.shutterstock.com
A Four Corners/Fairfax investigation shows the need for an advisory board to make sure that tax officers are accountable as part of the Taxpayers’ charter.
NBN delivery is variable across different states, but also within the same local council areas.
from www.shutterstock.com
This week’s ABC Four Corners episode investigated contamination at defence force sites and surrounding aquifers with chemicals called perfluoroalkyl acids or PFAAs. Around 18 sites are reported to be affected…
What may be deemed in the public interest today may not be so in a decade’s time.
shutterstock
Despite arguments that it is too loose, ambiguous and easy to hide behind, the ‘public interest’ is an integral part of the discourse, law, regulation and governance of modern democracies.
Irrigation pumps along the Barwon River in New South Wales.
AAP Image/Dean Lewins
The system that allocates water use in Australia’s largest river basin relies on a shared commitment by states to uphold the rules. New allegations of water theft threaten to break that trust.
Retirement village contracts are too complex for even some financial advisers.
AAP/ Paul Miller
While retirement villages aren’t regulated like an insurance company, their contracts are essentially insurance policies. This puts the risk on retirees.
Policymakers are reluctant to acknowledge the care system is producing criminals.
AAP/Neda Vanovac
Homeless children charged in NSW with a criminal offence who are unable to meet bail conditions are being kept in custody. It’s due, in part, to a well-meant but flawed section of the Bail Act.
Will Mike Baird be the premier to stop the intergenerational cycle of abuse and neglect of children in care?
AAP/Dean Lewins
The NSW government’s latest promised solution to well-documented abuse in the out-of-home care system is, in fact, a re-run of promises made by the Carr government more than a decade ago.
Former carer Natalie Ottini shared her experiences of working in residential group homes on the ABC’s Four Corners program.
ABC/Poppy Stockell
We have decades of evidence showing the widespread abuse and neglect suffered by children in the out-of-home care system. The agencies responsible for allowing the abuse have little to fear.
Children’s access to education in Nauru has declined following the acknowledgement of their refugee status.
ABC/Four Corners
Former treasurer Peter Costello has raised questions about how much the Turnbull government can achieve given its political situation, and warned of the risk of a defection.
For any person on the road to recovery from trauma exposure, the key factors are stability and safety.
littleny/Shutterstock
Perceived stigma, failure to seek help and failures of policing organisations to support help-seeking have created a melting pot of despair for some officers.