april 2009

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This Issue: Why Magda had to lose Weight


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cover story

Magda Szubanski, Australia’s much loved comedian, was faced with losing weight or dying

Features

Are the restrictions on alternative medicines adequate?
The Federal Government is failing children with severe disabilities at nongovernment schools, writes Mary Lou Carter
Putting children in adult wards is unsafe – Prof David Bennett
Justice for all or just the able bodied? Wayne Eckert reports
Ian Gawler on living and dying well with cancer
Junk food is the new opiate of the people says Dr Andrew Gunn
Fatten them up says the Grim Reaper: obesity and disabilities
Nicole Wallis talks about having Motor Neurone Disease
Part one from Dana Jennings’s journal on prostate cancer
Excerpt from The Dragon’s Blessing: Ian Gawler by Guy Allenby
Hope is vital to recover from mental illness says Dr Daniel Fisher
Milo: Adam Thomson’s last essay for Link
Animals living with disabilities. Meet Faith the dog & Molly the horse
Puckering up for a good cause

Regulars

Apart-hood, like apartheid, creates social chasms where the disadvantaged suffer, writes Robbi Williams
Beyond patching: rebuilding disability services, by Dr Ken Baker
Samantha Jenkinson welcomes key policy changes but asks where are the jobs?
Surgeons are doing some very strange things, Peter Coulter discovers
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