This week, Glen Quartermain broke one of the year’s biggest stories — Polly Farmer’s brain injury. Here, he shares his personal insight into what the AFL should do to make the game safer.
Glen Quartermain
Australia’s elite athletes have been given obvious tips on how to avoid the coronavirus — wash your hands at all times, use alcohol wipes and eat vitamins such as zinc and vitamin C.
Steve Butler
The federal government is reportedly considering how to crack down on the importation of nicotine vaping liquids.
Two more coronavirus cases have been confirmed in Australia, but while COVID-19 continues to spread, the WHO has yet to declare a pandemic.
Colin Brinsden - AAP
The US plans to invoke special powers to boost production of protective gear against coronavirus as health authorities warn of an imminent spread.
Steve Holland and Richard Cowan
The game-changing doctor actor Will Smith played in the film Concussion after he first diagnosed chronic traumatic encephalopathy says no one should be allowed to play football until they’re adults.
The world’s second-deadliest ant may have made its way to Perth, with pest control company Swatapest called to destroy several nests of what may be jack jumper ants.
Dave Friedlos
The prestigious annual Cable Beach Polo event has been cancelled, with organisers blaming the threat of coronavirus.
Krystal Sanders
Another case of the novel coronavirus has been confirmed, with the wife of the first case - a man flown home to Australia from the Diamond Princess cruise ship - testing positive for the disease
Joanna Delalande, Kate Emery and Peter Law
Australia’s peak doctors’ group says a coronavirus outbreak in Perth is “inevitable” and a “military style response” is needed.
Peter Law
Surgical masks are being “locked away” in private hospitals to prepare for an outbreak, as the health system moves on to a “war footing” in the fight against the deadly virus.
TheWest.com.au can reveal WA’s only confirmed case, a 78-year-old flown home from the Diamond Princess cruise ship, is being treated in the intensive care unit at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital.
CAITLYN RINTOUL, SARAH ISON & ELLEN WHINNETT
A premiership coach and a WA icon are leading the push to stamp out bumps after Graham “Polly” Farmer became the first Aussie Rules player diagnosed with brain trauma linked to repeated head knocks.
Glen Quartermain, Jon Ralph & Joanna Delalande
A parliamentary inquiry into the Northern Beaches Hospital has recommended the NSW government avoid all public-private hospital partnerships in the future.
Angelo Risso
Australia’s emergency response plan for coronavirus has been implemented and the Government expects a global pandemic is on the horizon.
Sarah Ison
The report from NSW's special commission of inquiry into the drug ice has been been made public a month after it was handed to the government.
Ashlea Witoslawski
Former players have opened up about their own shocking concussion experiences after bombshell revelations about Graham Farmer’s CTE diagnoses sends shockwaves through the sport.
Joanna Delalande
Five contractors involved in corruption within the North Metropolitan Health Service will have to wait until June to learn their fate, after a judge ruled he would need days longer to sentence them.
Shannon Hampton
The US President says he is considering extending his country’s travel bans as positive coronavirus tests explode in South Korea and Italy, but that “now is not the right time”.
The likelihood of men developing obesity and related metabolic diseases and women to suffer from autoimmune diseases has been linked to their immune systems.
In the wake of Graham “Polly” Farmer’s diagnosis, his children speak exclusively about their father’s storied career, how he saw playing through suffering as “a badge of courage” and his final legacy.
WA footy great Graham Farmer has become the first Aussie rules player diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a crippling neurological disorder that changed the landscape of American sport.
Improving early detection and treatment of rare diseases is the focus of a new plan being funded by the federal government.
Greta Stonehouse
“Fever clinics”, used to identify new cases of the coronavirus, are being set up as authorities reveal WA’s Health Department is working on contingency plans in the event of a global pandemic.
Bethany Hiatt
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