The Medical Journal of Australia

Vol 216, Issue 2: 24 January 2022. Professor John Massie is Professor of Paediatrics at the University of Melbourne, and a leading child bioethicist. He discusses the ethics and legal protections involved in vaccinating children aged 12 years and over who wish to be protected against COVID-19, even against their parents' wishes. This accompanies Professor Massie's coauthored MJA article which can be found at

Vol 216, Issue 1: 17 January 2022. Dr Manjula O'Connor is a consultant psychiatrist and academic at the University of Melbourne. She is also Executive and Founding Director of the AustralAsian Centre for Human Rights and Health (https://www.achrh.org/). She talks about dowry abuse in Australia and the fight for legal protections for survivors, to accompany her MJA Perspective, which is open access at

Vol 215, Issue 11: 6 December 2021. Professor Alta Schutte is Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at UNSW Sydney, and a Professorial Fellow at The George Institute for Global Health. Professor Markus Schlaich is the Dobney Chair of Clinical Research at the University of Western Australia. They discuss hypertension control rates in Australia and why they need urgent improvement, and how we can do that. This podcast accompanies their MJA Perspective, published here. With MJA news and online

Vol 215, Issue 11: 29 November 2021. Adjunct Associate Professor James Branley heads the Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases at Nepean Hospital. Associate Professor Lucy Morgan is a respiratory physician treating COVID-19 patients at Nepean and Concord Hospitals. They discuss how to save lives in the first few days of COVID-19 symptoms. To accompany the full webinar, available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQj6SVEsa6M&t=1781s ...  CDNA National guidelines for public

Vol 215, Issue 11: 22 November 2021. Associate Professor Sheena Sullivan is Head of Epidemiology at the WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza, at the Peter Doherty Institute. She talks about the impact of opening the international borders on influenza cases and severity this coming summer. To accompany her editorial at https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2021/216/1/preparing-out-season-influenza-epidemics-when-international-travel-resumes, and research by Marsh et al,

Vol 215, Issue 10: 8 November 2021. Professor Patrick McGorry AO is the Executive Director of Orygen and a founding director of headspace. He talks with MJA news and online editor Cate Swannell about the realities of youth mental health in Australia and what urgent action needs to be taken. To accompany his editorial at https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2021/216/2/reality-mental-health-care-young-people-and-urgent-need-solutions and research by Iorfino et al at