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Asbestos material has been found in parks at Crofts Reserve, PJ Lynch Reserve playground, Altona North.

Another suburban park tested for asbestos as experts call for mulch crackdown

PA Burns Reserve, a dog park in Altona North, is the latest park to have contaminated mulch that is being tested for asbestos.

  • by Sherryn Groch and Rachael Dexter
Superbug researcher and epidemiologist Professor Catherine Bennett saved her friend Troy Michael from a superbug when she read something weird about his shoulder in a Facebook conversation.

‘Like the Day of the Triffids’: How a researcher saved her friend’s life from the ‘monster’ among us

When Troy complained on Facebook about something weird in his shoulder, one of his friends who took notice was pandemic-famous epidemiologist Catherine Bennett.

  • by Sherryn Groch

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