The Australian Priest-Penitent Privilege: Are They Protected?

Intangible Values of Protected Areas : What Are They ? Why Do They Matter ?

tangible values are, the reasons why people care deeply about protected areas ultimately have little or nothing to do with them. There is another arena of values, values whose benefits are difficult or impossible to quantify, but which lie at the heart of the protective impulse that drives the modern conservation movement. These intangible values (also referred to as nonmaterial values) include...

Journal publications by Australian chiropractic academics: are they enough?

PURPOSE To document the number of journal publications attributed to the academic faculty of Australian chiropractic tertiary institutions. To provide a discussion of the significance of this output and to relate this to the difficulty the profession appears to be experiencing in the uptake of evidence based healthcare outcomes and cultures. METHODS The departmental websites for the three Aus...

Nutritional quality of Australian breakfast cereals. Are they improving?

The nutritional quality of Australian breakfast cereals is not systematically monitored despite the importance of breakfast for general health. We examined whether the nutritional quality of Australian breakfast cereals has improved between 2004 and 2010, and whether any change could be detected after the introduction of Daily Intake Guide (DIG) front-of-pack labelling. Supermarket surveys were...

Southeast Australian thunderstorms : are they increasing in frequency ?

Herbal drug leaflets: are they in compliance with standards?

Leaflets inside pharmaceutical packages should include focal points about medicines being used by patients. The current study was designed to assess the compliance of information cited in herbal medicine leaflets with the standards released by the Ministry of Health and Medical Education of Iran (MHMEI). Leaflets of commonly used herbal pharmaceutical products sold in pharmacies of Iran were co...