Emma Pollard

Despite anecdotal information suggesting spiking is reasonably common, only seven people went to court charged with unlawful drink spiking in Queensland between July 2021 and May 2024.

An Indian dental clinic which markets cut-price services to Australians has been accused of using 'fake' online reviews and price gouging — leaving one woman in pain after she travelled to the subcontinent for care.

It may be the last week of winter but temperatures are rising across Australia — and in several places, winter heat records have already been broken. 

UnitingCare says it is the first time it has ended an agreement with a heath insurer in almost three decades. 

Deaths by suicide inside mental health units are nationally reportable sentinel events, defined as "adverse patient safety events that are wholly preventable".

The ABC has confirmed 19 adult mental health inpatients have ended their own lives while in Queensland mental health units since 2018.

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The LNP has unveiled its $590 million health plan, but Labor has accused the party of "handing in our homework". Doctor's groups say both parties have applied a "broad brush" to health policy. 

Abortion has become a surprise subject of debate in the Queensland election – putting an issue that many Australians might have thought was settled, back on the national agenda.

New Queensland government labels Labor's pumped hydro project a 'hoax' after true cost revealed in report