I was recently asked to answer a few questions about the effects of the Abortion Law Reform Amendment (Health Care Access) Bill 2025 (NSW), which was recently introduced by Greens Member of Parliament Dr Amanda Cohn, MLC.

Disturbing reports about botched cosmetic surgeries and injuries in Australia – from breast augmentations causing chronic pain to liposuction leaving patients with lifelong injuries – have sparked concerns in recent years. Several high-profile cosmetic surgeons alleged to have fallen short of expected professional standards have been disciplined. Last year, a class action was commenced against […]

Overruling Roe and Casey I’m very disappointed by the result of Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization. The majority holding of the SCOTUS opinion (authored by Justice Alito) is summarised in the headnote as follows: The Constitution does not confer a right to abortion; Roe and Casey are overruled; and the authority to regulate abortion […]

Recently, a new Bill to allow mitochondrial donation was tabled in the federal Parliament. Will it achieve all that it promises?

In the late nineteenth century, Sigmund Freud’s colleague Wilhelm Fleiss successfully diagnosed an illness in one of Freud’s relatives, without even having met them. Freud was so impressed by Fleiss’s “diagnostic acumen” that he went on to advocate the method in certain circumstances. Freud would write that diagnosing someone without personally examining them was acceptable […]