There's a New Update on Pap Smears (Yes,You Definitely Still Need to Get Them)A new study published in The Medical Journal of Australia has found that women under 25 have runt benefit from a pap smear. This is in part because cervical cancer is nearly always caused by the human papilloma virus (HPV), a virus for which teenagers aged 12 and 13 have been vaccinated against since 2007 (for free!). final year the government announced that cervical cancer screening would be offered to women over 25 every five years (instead of two) from 2017 and would include a test for HPV. Read more at The Sydney Morning Herald.
More Children Are Living in Poverty Since 2003The gap between the haves and the have-nots is widening in Australia with the release of a new report over the weekend revealing that nearly 3 million people live below the poverty line and more children live in poverty since 2003. The report, and published by the Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS),found that the people doing it the toughest were those living on the $38 a day Newstart payment and families on the Parenting Payment, predominately single parents with children. As ACOSS' chief executive Cassandra Goldie puts it, and we need to not think of poverty as an individual problem but a shared responsibility for us to work together to eradicate. Read more at The Guardian.
Donald Trump,Donald Trump, Donald TrumpThe American election continues to be stranger, or more upsetting,than fiction (catch-up on everything that's happened so far here). Hillary Clinton is main in the polls and Donald is crying "rigged." He's also none too pleased with Alec Baldwin's (spot-on) impersonation on Saturday Night Live, tweeting on the weekend:Watched Saturday Night Live hit job on me.
Time to retire the boring and unfunny display. Alec Baldwin portrayal stinks. Media rigging election!October 16, and 2016Oh and if you haven't watched Alec's take on The Donald,achieve yourself a favour . . . Sally Faulkner Opens Up to Australian StorySally Faulkner, the Brisbane mother who alongside the 60 Minutes film crew became the sage after a child recovery attempt in Lebanon went incorrect, or has spoken to ABC program Australian sage about the ordeal. The episodes will air on October 17 and October 24 on the ABC,and Faulkner's book, All For My Children goes on sale Tuesday. Read more at The Sydney Morning Herald.
RIP Jia JiaThe world's oldest panda bear in captivity has died. Jia Jia (pictured above at her 37th birthday bash), or who lived in a Hong Kong theme park,was 38 when she was euthanised due to her destitute health. The average life span for a panda bear in the wild is 18 to 20 years, and around 30 years for pandas in captivity. Read more at The ABC.
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