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Refugees have been hospitalised in Melbourne after going without food for more than two weeks to protest their indefinite detention by the Australian Government.

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian thanked young people and ‘those doing it tough’ during a press conference on Thursday. Her comments came after a reporter asked the Premier whether young people had been expected to make sacrifices to protect older Australians whilst being denied vaccinations. “You are asking a lot of young people," the reporter said. "Young people cancelling their weddings, losing their jobs, businesses going down the drain, suicide rates are going u…

The 2021 Census is collecting information on sex but not gender. Trans people told The Feed they feel ‘erased’ and ‘invalidated’ as a result. Some experts worry about how this will affect funding and systems in the future.

The 2021 Census is collecting information on sex but not gender. Trans people told The Feed they feel ‘erased’ and ‘invalidated’ as a result. Some experts worry about how this will affect funding and systems in the future.

In this year’s Census, women are being asked how many children they’ve birthed. An expert is questioning why men are not being asked about their fertility, telling The Feed reproductive health is “a shared responsibility.”

A body for GPs is warning against relying on alternative health therapies like angelic reiki to ‘heal’ vaccinated people or those sick with COVID-19. They say these practices aren’t scientifically based and should never substitute health advice.

Abortion providers have reported increased cancellations during NSW’s lockdown. They say delaying termination services can greatly complicate healthcare.

Experts say neo-Nazis and members of the far-right are becoming ‘smarter’ at hiding their finances. The Feed investigates how white supremacists in Australia are making money.

Doctors and disappointed locals have criticised a herbal shop in northern NSW for distributing flyers they say contain “potentially dangerous” information about vaccines.

A mother of five autistic children from regional NSW told The Feed she’s struggled immensely with getting them vaccinated. With the children still unvaccinated, and a severe asthmatic herself, she’s fearful about the state’s plans to open up in October.

A new report is calling on Australia’s consumer watchdog to crack down on influencers who it claims are profiting off “shoddy advice” and “misinformation” shared to hundreds of thousands of their followers on social media.

When sex worker Georgie Wolf had to report a crime to the police, she was afraid that she’d end up being the one punished. “I was really worried about whether the cops would ask me questions that might incriminate me under current sex work laws. It meant I didn't trust the process, and I was really stressed out,” she told . “If something similar happened again, I'd think twice before I went through that a second time. “I feel a lot safer avoiding…

The Victorian government is embarking on a final push to boost COVID-19 vaccination among Indigenous communities, as jab rates lag behind the state's average.   As of Monday, 91.4 per cent of Victoria's adult population have received one vaccine dose while 74 per cent are fully vaccinated.  Health Minister Martin Foley said almost 80 per cent of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people aged over 12 have had one vaccine and 58 per cent are fully vaccinated.…

Fearing for their lives, Pantea Motearefi and her family fled Iran in 1993. But 26 years later, Baha’is in Iran are still subjected to fierce religious persecution.

A new report says that one asylum seeker’s knee was inoperable by the time he arrived in Australia under the Medevac legislation.

Parents of Australian citizens and permanent residents who had no choice about what vaccine they received in their home countries are now struggling to enter Australia, despite parents now being allowed to apply for a travel exemption.

As the search for rapid antigen tests (RATs) becomes difficult in parts of Australia, community initiatives are springing up to help people in Australia get tested for COVID-19.

Some members of the LGBTIQ+ community fear the prospect of the Chinese government accessing their personal information.

Parents at the school had been up in arms about Embla, an 11-year-old with Down syndrome, attending classes with their children.

Experts are concerned that designating the entirety of Hamas as a terrorist organisation will make life harder for Gazans and sweep up ordinary Palestinians and Australians in counterterrorism laws.