Baird defends medical cannabis action and other top stories.

• Baird defends medical cannabis action

  

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• Push for government to use tobacco excise dollars to help mentally ill smokers quit

  

  Forty-two per cent of cigarettes consumed in Australia are smoked by people with a mental illness. Photo: Nikita Sobolkov The federal government has a moral obligation to use some of the almost $5 billion it will rake in from upping the tobacco excise to help mentally ill smokers kick the habit health, advocates have said.David Meldrum, CEO of the Mental Illness Fellowship of Australia, said 70 per cent of all schizophrenics, whose average life expectancy is ..

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• PM announces diabetes funding

  

  The fingertips of young Noah Davies are a mess, thanks to routine pinpricks to check his blood glucose levels. But that's about to change, now that Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has pledged $54 million funding for new technology which could mostly end a ritual familiar to anyone with Type 1 diabetes. The move has the backing of Labor. The constant glucose monitor is a device which monitors blood sugar and transmits the results to a smartphone or an insulin pump. Noah's mum Megan, from Canberr..

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