Nurse Practitioners and gender affirming primary care clinics for transgender and gender diverse people
Transgender (sometimes abbreviated as ‘trans’) is a term for people whose gender identity is different to the sex assigned to them at birth. Gender identity refers to a persons’ internal and personal concept of themselves as being male, female, a blend of both, or neither. There is a growing awareness of transgender people in our […]
Report finds Australia’s first drug-checking site is changing ‘drug behaviours’
Nearly half of the drugs tested at Australia’s first fixed-site pill testing service were not what the user thought they were, a new report has found. Once people accessing the service discovered what was in the drug, about one in ten discarded the drug at the service. When the substance was not what the service […]
Voice to Parliament the structural reform needed to Closing the Gap
“More of the same isn’t good enough, we have to do better,” said Federal Minister for Indigenous Australians Linda Burney on the release of the latest Closing the Gap report which shows slow progress with few targets on track to be met by 2031. An Indigenous Voice to Parliament is the structural reform needed to […]