Alison Branley
Reporter and Producer at ABC News (Australia)
Walkley-award winning Reporter and Producer. Views are my own. Contact via Signal.
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3 weeks ago |
abc.net.au | Rachel Carbonell |Alison Branley
If Australia's new lung cancer screening program had been around earlier, Anne Fidler thinks she might have had a lot longer to live. "They probably would have caught it at stage 1 and not now at stage 4," the 62-year-old said. "In my case, it's incurable… it's just a matter of how much time I've got now."The Brisbane-based real estate agent, who used to smoke, went for an unrelated scan. That was when her lung cancer was picked up.
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3 weeks ago |
abc.net.au | Conor Duffy |Alison Branley
Australia's child support system has been weaponised for financial abuse that is "amplified" by Services Australia, according to a Commonwealth Ombudsman's investigation. That abuse included parents not making payments, not filing tax returns to disguise income, lying to reduce income and being abusive or violent to stop a parent seeking help.
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1 month ago |
abc.net.au | Gemma Breen |Alison Branley |Conor Duffy |Rhiannon Hobbins
Australia's governor-general is on a mission to reverse declining civics scores among Australian students. She's driven by two factors: young people's poor understanding of how democracy works, and their lack of faith in our institutions — both at record lows. "I think misinformation and disinformation is the great scourge of our time," Her Excellency, the Honourable Sam Mostyn, said.
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1 month ago |
abc.net.au | Kristy Sexton- McGrath |Alison Branley
Star-gazing, nude solstice swims and spectacular light shows are part of a growing travel trend known as "noctourism" that's injecting hundreds of millions of dollars into Australia's economy each year. A global survey of more than 27,000 travellers found noctourism was a top travel trend for 2025, according to booking.com, with a growing demand for night experiences.
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1 month ago |
rnz.co.nz | Alison Branley
By Alison Branley, ABCVaccination rates among children and teens have reached "critical" levels, according to experts, who are warning deaths are inevitable if Australia does not do more to turn around a steady decline in immunisation rates. Figures from the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance (NCIRS), released on Thursday, show a widespread decline in immunisations for a range of illnesses over the past five years.
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