On April 24, the House Standing Committee on Health, Aged Care and Sport released the report of its six-month-long investigation into long COVID. Parliamentary committees are odd ...

Melbourne-based Elizabeth Finkel is a former biochemist who switched to telling the stories of other scientists. She is the former editor of Cosmos magazine.

After the death of her mother, the author reflects on the hold of sugar upon her family’s health and history ...

The danger of misrepresenting new malpractice regulations as muzzling doctors’ opinions On Saturday October 8, The Australian published an op-ed titled: “Health disgrace: bureaucrats in bid to silence ...

Nicola Roxon is a Labor politician and the former attorney-general.

Dion Kagan is a writer, researcher and the author of Positive Images: Gay Men and HIV/AIDS in the Culture of ‘Post-Crisis’.

Anne Rutherford is a film critic and adjunct associate professor in cinema studies at Western Sydney University.

Robyn Davidson is a non-fiction writer. She is the author of the award-winning books Tracks and Desert Places, and the editor of The Best Australian Essays 2009 and The Picador Book of Journeys.

Bill Bowtell is a strategic–policy analyst and consultant and the executive director of the Lowy Institute’s HIV-AIDS project. He was a political adviser to Paul Keating.

Julian Morrow is a comedian, writer, television producer and broadcaster. He is a co-founder of the Chaser comedy team and the executive producer of The Hamster Wheel.

Gerry Higgins Chair of Irish Studies at the University of Melbourne.

Alyssa McDonald is a Sydney-based freelance journalist. She is a contributing editor to New Statesman.