23 May 2008
Sydney hospital nurses impose work bans: not enough beds for the mentally ill

16 May 2008
Australia: $50,000 for a kidney? Doctor's proposal highlights desperate health, social crisis

3 December 2007
Australia: Asbestos sufferer and campaigner Bernie Banton dies at 61

5 October 2007
Australia: Miscarriage tragedy highlights deliberate running down of public hospitals

22 May 2007
Australian nursing home deaths reveal chronic under-funding

27 September 2006
Australia: James Hardie directors show contempt for asbestos sufferers

9 December 2005
Australia: Labor puts profits ahead of children's health at Port Pirie

6 December 2005
Australia: James Hardie demands more concessions on asbestos compensation deal

15 July 2005
Worsening health inequality in Australia

19 January 2005
Australia: James Hardie signs non-binding agreement on asbestos victims' claims

17 March 2004
Australia: "MedicarePlus" aims to kill off Medicare

6 March 2004
Australia: Maternity units forced to close

11 February 2004
Australia: Police shooting highlights lack of mental health care

28 January 2004
Australia: Camden Hospital nurse speaks out over inadequate healthcare

24 December 2003
Australia: Deaths in Sydney hospitals used to boost private health care

2 December 2003
Australian government moves to dismantle Medicare bulk-billing

4 September 2003
Rising levels of untreated mental illness in Australia

18 June 2003
Australia: Lack of monitoring highlights health dangers at Alcoa plants

WSWS interviews local residents
Kwinana is the cancer capital of Western Australia

25 September 2002
Nurses quit Australian hospitals in record numbers

19 April 2002
Government indifference as a second toxic blaze threatens West Australian residents

2 April 2002
Australia: Official report covers up deaths of disabled children

6 March 2002
Australian state government bows to media witchhunt on teenage paint sniffing

16 January 2002
VRE outbreak at major West Australian hospital

7 November 2001
Australian election: Labor's micro-promise for dental care

2 October 2001
Australian cancer patients denied radiation therapy

6 September 2001
Australian nurses union accepts cuts to conditions

27 June 2001
Workers condemn company over sulphur fumes at West Australian mine

18 May 2001
Australian doctors call for urgent review of government health funding

12 May 2001
Australian jury finds passive smoking causes cancer in landmark legal case

5 May 2001
Cancer danger at Australian mail centre
Postal workers demand inquiry and relocation

Interview with Australian postal worker:
"Hell will freeze over before I believe that these illnesses are a coincidence"

4 May 2001
Inequality, poverty and family stress undermine child health in Australia

20 March 2001
Continuing government cover-up of asbestos health disaster in Australia

WSWS interviews Dr Tony Sasse Respiratory physician calls for mass screening of asbestos victims

17 February 2001
Corporate appointee undermines Australian drug advisory committee

Australian professor warns that poor will have to pay more for drugs

14 December 2000
Funding crisis forces hospital emergency closures in Western Australia

4 October 2000
A multi billion dollar transfusion to
private health insurers in Australia

3 October 2000
Australia: Newcastle hospital closure will further undermine public health

9 May 2000
"Self-regulation" spawns Legionnaire's Disease epidemic in Melbourne

4 April 2000
Letter from an Australian nursing home worker

10 March 2000
Kerosene baths reveal systemic aged care crisis in Australia

29 January 2000
Australia's MRI "scandal" diverts attention from government restrictions on medical diagnosis

22 November 1999
Sydney nurses take their concerns to the streets

15 November 1999
Australian steel company leaves deadly toxic legacy

12 November 1999
Funding crisis shuts hospital emergency wards in Australia's largest city

11 November 1999
Workers and residents in Western Australia suffer health problems from Alcoa's alumina plant

17 September 1999
Australian state government privatises major hospital

15 September 1999
Australian public health specialist: "Financial cutbacks have lowered the standard of infection control" in Victoria

6 September 1999
Shift work and ill-health

13 August 1999
Australian schoolgirl contracts HIV via blood transfusion

27 July 1999
Australian Premiers call for inquiry into how to cut health spending

9 June 1999
On the legalisation of drugs

27 May 1999
"Life is inherently disappointing...."
Sydney Drug Summit recommends legalisation

6 May 1999
Health workers falsely blamed for hospital deaths

19 March 1999
Hospitals crisis in Tasmania
State Labor government seeks to balance budget at the expense of public health

31 December 1998
Private health insurance rebate: A further erosion of Australian public health care

18 July 1998
Patients cut off waiting lists in Australian hospitals

23 June 1998
Australian report criticises 'casemix' system
Patients suffer under new hospital funding scheme

14 May 1998
Further cuts to hospitals, schools, childcare:
'Surplus' Budget in Australia deepens social assault

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18 May 2001
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