New parliamentary issues paper on the health impacts of AOD
The House of Representatives Standing Committee on Health, Aged Care, and Sport has tabled an issues paper into the health impacts of AOD in Australia
The House of Representatives Standing Committee on Health, Aged Care, and Sport has tabled an issues paper into the health impacts of AOD in Australia
The report of the Australian Law Reform Commission inquiry into justice responses to sexual violence has been tabled in Parliament
The inquiry into the Regulation of Personal Adult Use of Cannabis Bill has tabled its report.
The independent review of the General Insurance Code of Practice has recommended changes drawing from our research on insurance discrimination and hepatitis C.
On this year’s Human Rights Day, we are delighted to announce that our work has been awarded the Andrea Durbach Prize for Human Rights Scholarship.
This week, the GLaD team released their summary report from the project on hepatitis C-related stigma and discrimination in a post-cure world, including 18 recommendations for policy, legal and practice reform. Read more and access the report here.
As part of our drugs and human rights project, GLaD researcher Sean Mulcahy is heading to Europe to present at conferences in London, Sheffield and Verona.
New Victorian legislation will introduce an electronic patient health information sharing system to enable public hospitals and other specified health services to share Victorians’ health information.
GLaD Program researcher, Dr Sean Mulcahy, recently visited the University of Warwick after securing a Visiting Research Fellowship
In the lead up to International Overdose Awareness Day, we highlight some of the policy reforms in the state of Victoria to tackle overdose
The Australian Department of Health will soon embark on developing the sixth iteration of the national hepatitis C strategy, anticipated to be its last, and
The Mandatory Disease Testing Act 2021, recently passed through the New South Wales Parliament,establishes a new scheme under which a person can be ordered to provide a blood sample for the testing of blood-borne viruses if, as a result of their deliberate action, their bodily fluid has come into contact with a health, emergency or public sector worker.