Hayley Gleeson

2 weeks ago | abc.net.au | Hayley Gleeson

Sarah Williams wasn't looking for a career change. She didn't dream of quitting her job in the higher education sector to launch a short-stay accommodation business in Tasmania's pristine Wilderness World Heritage Area — though if you don't know her full story, it might sound like a dream. When she resigned from her job as an intranet designer at Melbourne University in 2017, Williams was at breaking point.

1 month ago | abc.net.au | Hayley Gleeson

Is Australia winning its fight against gendered violence? Although it spiked in 2023, the female intimate partner homicide rate has fallen since 1989 — a positive trend, for sure. But other data aren't as encouraging. Police are responding to record numbers of family violence callouts. Domestic violence-related sexual assaults increased 78 per cent between 2014 and 2023, with sexual violence crime reaching the highest rate ever recorded.

Dec 28, 2024 | abc.net.au | Hayley Gleeson

Long COVID is snuffing out some patients' dreams of having children, sharpening the pain of loss, grief and medical neglect. When Melanie Broadley and her husband started going out in 2019, like many couples their age they decided to put "starting a family" on the shelf for a few years so they could focus on their careers. A postdoctoral researcher who studies diabetes and psychology, Broadley was 28 and in good health — she had plenty of time, she reasoned.

Oct 13, 2024 | abc.net.au | Hayley Gleeson

Thousands of patients caught COVID in NSW public hospitals last year and hundreds died, fuelling concerns among infection control experts and healthcare workers that hospitals are not taking strong enough precautions against airborne viruses. NSW Ministry of Health data released under freedom of information laws shows at least 6,007 patients caught COVID in hospital in 2023 and 297 died — about 115 laboratory confirmed infections and six deaths per week, on average.

Sep 23, 2024 | abc.net.au | Hayley Gleeson

There wasn't a dramatic "lightning bolt" moment when Colin Kinner realised he needed to roll up his sleeves and start tackling what he'd come to see as a pernicious problem: the largely unchecked spread of SARS-CoV-2 in Australian schools. What spurred him to act, in the end, was the growing pile of evidence that COVID was a serious health threat, and his concern that school communities seemed to be shrugging their shoulders at it.