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Hpv Vaccination Programs Have Not Been Shown To Be Cost-Effective In Countries With Comprehensive Pap Screening And Surgery, Roslyn Judith Wilyman

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

Pap screening combined with loop electrosurgical excision procedures (LEEP) is almost 100% effective in preventing cervical cancer mortality yet many countries with these procedures have now implemented broad HPV vaccination programs. HPV vaccines have not been demonstrated to be more effective or safer than Pap screening in the prevention of cervical cancer and Pap screening will still be required even in vaccinated women. The HPV vaccine costs Au$450 per person and it does not protect against ~30% of cancer. This investigation analyses the cost-effectiveness of using the HPV vaccine in countries where Pap screening and surgical procedures have already reduced …

Don't Be Fooled, Loneliness Affects Men Too, Roger Patulny

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

A recent article by Jean Hannah Edelstein featured in Fairfax’s Daily Life website examines the impact of loneliness on health. Edelstein is right that loneliness exacerbates ill health and shortens life expectancies. But her claim that women are more severely affected by loneliness is outdated and overlooks the need for real policy reform to address the health implications of loneliness for men.

Should Operations To Turn The Boats Around Be Kept Secret?, Sam Bateman

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

Acting opposition leader Chris Bowen said in a doorstop interview earlier this week that:

There is absolutely no operational reason for the new minister of immigration not to be up front with the Australian people when a boat arrives and when a turn-back is attempted.

Unfortunately, this statement is not correct. Operation Sovereign Borders, a key plank of the Abbott government’s policy to stop asylum seeker arrivals by boat, is a military-led activity and there are operational reasons for information related to stopping the boats not being made public.

These relate to the modus operandi of the Special Forces (SF) …

As A Gay Man, I Will Not Be Lectured On Discrimination By Julia Gillard, Marcus O'Donnell

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

Julia Gillard has had a rough few days. More accurately weeks, well, months. Let’s face it, years. And at the centre of so many of her travails has been debate about her gender. She’s been called a witch, deliberately barren, asked if her partner is gay and been the subject of a “joke” menu where a dish was described, with misogynistic cruelty, in terms of parts of her anatomy.

But for all Gillard’s outrage about the language and attitudes she faces, there’s a rather large elephant siting in her office in The Lodge which she seems to determined to ignore: …