Elicia Kennedy

After decades spent fighting the HIV-AIDS epidemic, Dr Barbara Nattabi is using her skills to combat COVID-19 misinformation in multicultural communities on the other side of the world.

The WA mining industry has been building camps for workers for half a century. Now it wants to use that expertise to help the country contain the risk of COVID-19.

A team of Australian researchers is working on the development of an electronic nose to replace sniffer dogs and catch a lot more of the illegal wildlife trade.

The biggest problem for babies exposed to methamphetamine in pregnancy is how beautifully ordinary they look, meaning by the time troubling signs emerge, many treatment opportunities have been lost.

The “extinction pit” is the name used by scientists for a place no animal wants to go, and just five years ago the numbat — Western Australia’s animal emblem — found itself on the edge thanks to the rise of a new predator.

Western Australia is the only place inhabited by humans to have successfully stopped the highly aggressive European wasp from taking hold, prompting experts to declare a biosecurity incident as numbers escalate.

Tighter regulations around complementary and unconventional medicine are being put forward by the Medical Board of Australia to improve patient safety, but some doctors fear this may rob patients of important treatment options.

In 2014, the WA Government forecast 800,000 visitors to Rottnest by 2034. Just five years later, we are about to hit that target, writes Elicia Kennedy.

The WA Government plans to tackle increasing violence and aggression from patients and visitors to hospitals by issuing body armour to doctors, nurses and security staff.

Sea water is rising up and taking the place of fresh water along parts of the Perth coast, threatening groundwater bores, wetlands and the future expansion of industry in the area.