In Melbourne in 2015 four young doctors took their own lives. In Sydney, four doctors killed themselves in 2017, and another two in 2019. Up-to-date and reliable data for suicide rates within the medical profession is hard to come by, but between 2001 and 2012, as many as 369 health professionals killed themselves in Australia. Globally, male doctors are 1.4 times more likely to commit suicide than the general population. For women, the rate is even worse: female doctors are 2.27 times more li

Victorian scientists are deeply worried that the critically endangered mountain pygmy-possum may join the growing list of Australian casualties of the species extinction crisis now playing out across the planet. Thought to be extinct until it was rediscovered in 1966, the mountain pygmy-possum is the only marsupial in the world that hibernates, and the only Australian mammal to exclusively inhabit alpine regions. To survive it requires at least a metre of winter snow cover. In a warming world,

A local artist campaigns to save a significant 300-year-old river red gum slated for removal.