Media room

Television, radio, press and commentary by members of Sydney Health Law. Each of us leads with our most recent appearance, followed by a few from further back; open any name for the full list, or switch to a single reverse-chronological stream.

Christopher Rudge

PressMJA InSight+Understanding the medical certificate rules: a comprehensive guide for doctorsChristopher Rudge31 Aug 2026Radio and podcastsAM, ABC Radio NationalRegional Australians struggling to get access to VAD doctorsChristopher Rudge11 Aug 2026PressThe GuardianCentrelink pursuing debts that are more than 40 years oldChristopher Rudge9 Aug 2026PressThe AgeTested on pigs, bad data but given to ambos anyway: Homegrown defibrillator’s red flagsChristopher Rudge4 Aug 2026PressThe Sydney Morning HeraldBroken teeth, locked jaws: Clear aligner company made money while nobody was watchingChristopher Rudge1 Aug 2026PressThe Sydney Morning HeraldThird-degree burns and skin grafts: the popular medical device that left a trail of injured childrenChristopher Rudge20 Jul 2026PressThe AgeSparking, burning and a 50-second delay: the deadly loophole in Australia’s medical device rulesChristopher Rudge19 Jul 2026PressMedical RepublicDelay in cyber attack notification ‘not acceptable’, says expertChristopher Rudge16 Jul 2026PressABC NewsDelay in revealing Partnered Health breach and stolen patient data ‘unacceptable’Christopher Rudge16 Jul 2026Radio and podcastsABC Radio Sydney, AfternoonsMirror life and the Doomsday ClockChristopher Rudge13 Jul 2026PressABC NewsPotential of ‘mirror life’ technology has Doomsday Clock scientists alarmedChristopher Rudge12 Jul 2026PressABC NewsVictim-survivors speak out on legal impact of receiving EMDR therapyChristopher Rudge1 Jul 2026PressNew ScientistUnapproved gene therapy for boosting longevity is set to go on saleChristopher Rudge23 Jun 2026PressUniversity of SydneyHow leading hospitals could make every experimental treatment countChristopher Rudge22 Jun 2026TelevisionABC News‘Unlawful’ employment services penalties not addressed in overhaul, expert saysChristopher Rudge27 May 2026Radio and podcaststriple j HackJobSeeker changesChristopher Rudge27 May 2026Radio and podcastsABC RN BreakfastAmanda Rishworth explains overhaul of unemployment systemChristopher Rudge27 May 2026Radio and podcastsPM, ABC Radio NationalGovernment pitches unemployment services shake-upChristopher Rudge27 May 2026Radio and podcastsDrive, ABC Radio SydneyEmployment services overhaulChristopher Rudge27 May 2026Radio and podcastsABC RN BreakfastGovernment announces biggest shake up to employment services in decadesChristopher Rudge27 May 2026PressYahoo Finance AustraliaNew rules for a million Aussies on Centrelink paymentChristopher Rudge27 May 2026PressAustralian Financial ReviewNo more endless job applications to get the dole in Labor overhaulChristopher Rudge27 May 2026PressABC NewsGovernment pitches largest overhaul to unemployment system in decadesChristopher Rudge27 May 2026PressCHOICEMedicinal cannabis: inside the world of pharma-controlled clinics and ‘5-minute’ consultsChristopher Rudge19 May 2026TelevisionABC NewsTougher penalties on organised crimeChristopher Rudge12 May 2026Radio and podcastsThe Law Report, ABC Radio NationalDoes EMDR therapy taint a witness’s recollection?Christopher Rudge12 May 2026TelevisionABC NewsNSW hate speech laws: neo-Nazi rally and the Sackar ReviewChristopher Rudge2 Apr 2026PressHealthedTech giants face their ‘big tobacco’ momentChristopher Rudge1 Apr 2026PressSMB TechUS jury finds Meta and Google platforms are addictive and harmful to childrenChristopher Rudge25 Mar 2026PressABC NewsThe ‘catch-22’ protecting Robodebt bureaucrats from criminal prosecutionChristopher Rudge19 Mar 2026Radio and podcastsABC RN BreakfastNACC’s Operation Myrtleford: corrupt conduct findingsChristopher Rudge12 Mar 2026PressABC NewsDNA genealogy is changing the way NSW Police investigate cold casesChristopher Rudge14 Feb 2026PressThe Age‘Consumer pays, consumer risks’: Florida ‘surgery mill’ plans for AustraliaChristopher Rudge16 Nov 2025PressAustralian Financial ReviewAI-tainted Deloitte report was worse than previously thoughtChristopher Rudge6 Nov 2025PressAccounting TimesDeloitte AI debacle underscores need for government contract transparencyChristopher Rudge4 Nov 2025PressThe GuardianCentrelink threatening payment suspensions at rate of five a minuteChristopher Rudge2 Nov 2025PressAraDeloitte returns thousands of dollars to the Australian government over a report with AI errorsChristopher Rudge30 Oct 2025Radio and podcastsThe Radio National HourDeloitte AI brouhaha distracted from real story of welfare crisisChristopher Rudge27 Oct 2025PressThe GuardianSometimes defective, maybe unlawful: what can be done about Australia’s crisis-ridden welfare system?Christopher Rudge25 Oct 2025Radio and podcastsThe Fin, AFR‘Don’t do a Deloitte’: the AI stuff-up that ricocheted around the worldChristopher Rudge24 Oct 2025PressThe MandarinRobodole rapidly morphs from narrative to sagaChristopher Rudge24 Oct 2025PressThe AustralianDeloitte discovers the dangers of AI content after chatbot errors in government reportChristopher Rudge15 Oct 2025TelevisionAM Agenda, Sky NewsDeloitte report caught with AI generated reference errorsChristopher Rudge14 Oct 2025PressAustralian Financial ReviewHow one academic unravelled Deloitte’s AI errorsChristopher Rudge13 Oct 2025PressAustralian Financial Review‘Oversight was not followed’: Deloitte apologises for AI reportChristopher Rudge12 Oct 2025Television7.30, ABCDeloitte caught out using AI in $440,000 reportChristopher Rudge10 Oct 2025PressMediaNamaDeloitte Australia’s AI blunder: discrepancies and errors in a $440k reportChristopher Rudge10 Oct 2025Radio and podcastsABC News RadioAI-use in the Targeted Compliance Framework ReportChristopher Rudge7 Oct 2025Radio and podcastsMornings, ABC Radio MelbourneDeloitte’s AI-generated reportChristopher Rudge6 Oct 2025Radio and podcastsSHE Research PodcastRegulating embryo research and health innovationsChristopher Rudge19 Sep 2025Radio and podcastsThe Wire, 2SERRobodebt saga reaches a massive turning point as victims receive compensationChristopher Rudge17 Sep 2025PressSBS News$548.5 million: the price the government is willing to pay ‘to avoid a public trial’ of robodebtChristopher Rudge13 Sep 2025PressThe MandarinRobodole, another gift that keeps on givingChristopher Rudge29 Aug 2025PressAustralian Financial ReviewDeloitte report suspected of containing AI invented quoteChristopher Rudge27 Aug 2025PressAustralian Financial ReviewAcademics raise alarm over suspected AI use in Deloitte reportChristopher Rudge22 Aug 2025WritingThe ConversationTwo years on from Australia’s bold psychedelic experiment, here are our concernsChristopher Rudge21 Aug 2025PressThe Sydney Morning HeraldInside the Botox black market: leaked messages reveal ‘illegal’ trading networkChristopher Rudge14 Aug 2025PressLaw Society JournalIs there a need for more stringent IVF regulation in Australia?Christopher Rudge18 Jul 2025PressCosmos MagazineMitochondrial donation allowed babies to be born without deadly diseaseChristopher Rudge18 Jul 2025PressAustralian Financial ReviewLabor may wipe $1.1b in welfare debt after landmark rulingChristopher Rudge17 Jul 2025Television7 NewsIVF Under the Microscope: Embryo Bungles Give Rise to Anxious ParentsChristopher Rudge4 Jul 2025Radio and podcastsRazor’s Edge, 2SERNew laws to address unsafe practices within the cosmetic industryChristopher Rudge20 Jun 2025PressABC NewsThe IVF industry is under the microscope after Monash IVF apologised for a second embryo bungleChristopher Rudge14 Jun 2025Television7 NewsBaby bungles: Monash IVF revealed two embryo mix-ups in two monthsChristopher Rudge13 Jun 2025Radio and podcastsMornings, ABC Radio Goulburn MurrayMonash IVF and the regulation of the ART sectorChristopher Rudge13 Jun 2025PressAustralian Financial ReviewMonash IVF bungle leaves booming sector under the spotlightChristopher Rudge12 Jun 2025PressABC NewsCalls for federal IVF regulation and DNA testing after second Monash embryo mix-upChristopher Rudge12 Jun 2025Radio and podcastsLife Matters, ABC Radio NationalWill new rules for cosmetic injectables make these procedures safer for Aussies?Christopher Rudge10 Jun 2025PressLawyers WeeklyLaw professor’s anti-abortion claims causing considerable distress, MP saysChristopher Rudge1 May 2025TelevisionNine NewsCase of IVF mix-up sits in unchartered legal territory, experts warnChristopher Rudge12 Apr 2025PressHerald SunHealth regulator asks Monash IVF for more details on baby bungleChristopher Rudge12 Apr 2025PressABC NewsChild involved in Monash IVF mix-up was conceived in early 2023Christopher Rudge12 Apr 2025TelevisionABC NewsIVF Bungle: Monash IVF Apologises after Woman gives Birth to Stranger’s BabyChristopher Rudge11 Apr 2025Radio and podcastsNews Hour, BBC World ServiceAustralian Woman Implanted by Embryo by MistakeChristopher Rudge11 Apr 2025TelevisionBetween Parkes Place and Capital Hill, Six NewsRobodebt and the National Anti-Corruption CommissionChristopher Rudge26 Mar 2025PressThe AgeGone in 52 seconds: inside Australia’s telehealth injectables gold rushChristopher Rudge22 Mar 2025PressAAP FactCheckNSW abortion bill would not force shutdown of all Christian hospitalsChristopher Rudge19 Mar 2025PressGuardian AustraliaServices Australia defends controversial debt recovery method at Federal CourtChristopher Rudge6 Mar 2025Radio and podcastsMotive & Method podcastCan people really commit crime whilst asleep?Christopher Rudge4 Mar 2025PressGreen LeftNSW Greens abortion access bill faces push-back from anti-choice activistsChristopher Rudge24 Feb 2025PressWHO Magazine‘Sleepwalking defence: no lawful control’Christopher Rudge24 Feb 2025WritingThe ConversationWhat is sexsomnia? And how can it be used as a defence in court?Christopher Rudge20 Feb 2025Radio and podcastsABC Radio NationalThe Law Report with Damien CarrickChristopher Rudge20 Feb 2025PressSBS News: LifeAre you responsible for crimes you commit in your sleep?Christopher Rudge20 Feb 2025PressWHO MagazineThe sleepwalking defenceChristopher Rudge20 Feb 2025Radio and podcastsThe Law Report, ABC Radio NationalCriminal defences of sexsomnia and parasomniaChristopher Rudge11 Feb 2025PressSBS NewsAre you responsible for crimes you commit in your sleep? Parasomnia as a legal defenceChristopher Rudge10 Feb 2025Radio and podcastsABC NewsRadioUnexpected charges billed to patients by GPs for specialist referralsChristopher Rudge4 Feb 2025TelevisionNine NewsBotulism from Cosmetic InjectablesChristopher Rudge25 Jan 2025Radio and podcastsThe Wire, 2SERRehabilitation or punishment? Mental health in Australian prisonsChristopher Rudge19 Dec 2024Radio and podcasts720 ABC Radio PerthUS grandmother receives genetically modified pig kidney xenotransplantChristopher Rudge19 Dec 2024TelevisionThe Business, ABCMore men are getting Botox, as the industry boomsChristopher Rudge3 Dec 2024PressABC NewsBotox and cosmetic injectables industry booming but safety feared to be the costChristopher Rudge3 Dec 2024PressGuardian AustraliaMillions of Australians charged $4.3bn may be part of debt miscalculation controversyChristopher Rudge30 Nov 2024TelevisionThe Project, Channel 10Patients in the US are suing over alleged side effects of weight-loss drugsChristopher Rudge25 Nov 2024PressThe AgeHealth minister intervenes in chiropractors’ decision to allow spinal manipulation of babiesChristopher Rudge13 Jun 2024TelevisionThe World, ABCPig kidney transplant patient dies two months after surgery in USChristopher Rudge14 May 2024Radio and podcastsABC Radio CanberraDrive: the TGA’s clampdown on cosmetic injectables advertisingChristopher Rudge12 May 2024Radio and podcastsABC Drive CanberraTGA rules on injectablesChristopher Rudge29 Apr 2024PressABC RNThe TGA is cracking down on cosmetic injectable adsChristopher Rudge26 Apr 2024PressAesthetic Medical PractitionerProposed reforms may publicise health practitioners’ past misconductChristopher Rudge26 Apr 2024PressThe Saturday PaperExclusive: babies are being left off Medicare as department foundersChristopher Rudge13 Apr 2024Radio and podcastsABC News DailyWill a crackdown end the Botox boom?Christopher Rudge5 Mar 2024WritingThe ConversationChoosing a new doctor? Earlier sexual misconduct may soon be on the public recordChristopher Rudge9 Feb 2024Radio and podcastsSIX News AustraliaVoluntary assisted dying now legal in NSW – all the laws explainedChristopher Rudge21 Dec 2023PressThe GuardianTwo people were jailed for welfare debts that Centrelink may have calculated unlawfullyChristopher Rudge7 Dec 2023Pressnews.com.auThalidomide: ‘darkest chapter’ in Australia’s medical historyChristopher Rudge3 Dec 2023PressThe GuardianDozens of Centrelink fraud prosecutions dropped due to unlawful welfare debt calculationsChristopher Rudge2 Nov 2023PressMamamiaInfluencers, complimentary cosmetic procedures and the slippery slope of social mediaChristopher Rudge30 Sep 2023PressCroakey Health MediaThe COVID inquiry – overdue, important, critiqued and facing a big task aheadChristopher Rudge27 Sep 2023Radio and podcastsABC News Radio BreakfastInquiry into the pandemic responseChristopher Rudge22 Sep 2023Radio and podcastsThe Quicky, MamamiaCosmetic crackdown: will it be harder to get injectables?Christopher Rudge12 Sep 2023PressThe GuardianProsecutors pause dozens of criminal cases after Services Australia miscalculated debtsChristopher Rudge12 Aug 2023PressThe Saturday PaperExclusive: DPP reviews prosecutions for false welfare debtsChristopher Rudge12 Aug 2023WritingThe ConversationWhat happens when doctors don’t act as they should? And what’s the ruling against neurosurgeon Charlie Teo?Christopher Rudge15 July 2023TelevisionABC News TelevisionNeurosurgeon Charlie Teo found guilty of unsatisfactory professional conductChristopher Rudge12 Jul 2023Radio and podcastsABC News RadioA shameful chapter: Robodebt Royal Commission to hand down its findingsChristopher Rudge7 Jul 2023Radio and podcastsSIX News AustraliaStopping irreversible medical procedures on intersex childrenChristopher Rudge30 Apr 2023WritingThe ConversationDoctors may soon get official ‘endorsements’ to practise cosmetic surgery – but will that protect patients?Christopher Rudge27 Mar 2023Radio and podcastsThe WireNew endorsement model for cosmetic surgeons in AustraliaChristopher Rudge22 Mar 2023Radio and podcastsLearn me Right in Health Law and Bioethics podcastLearn me Right in gene therapyChristopher Rudge21 Feb 2023Radio and podcastsEastside FMCosmetic surgeonsChristopher Rudge26 Jan 2023WritingThe ConversationThinking about cosmetic surgery? At last, some clarity on who can call themselves a surgeonChristopher Rudge16 Jan 2023PressThe Sydney Morning HeraldInsurer revokes celebrity surgeon’s medical cover, preventing further workChristopher Rudge21 Sep 2022PressThe Sydney Morning HeraldCelebrity surgeon’s company used faulty amputee device against internal adviceChristopher Rudge21 Sep 2022WritingThe ConversationWho’s the best doctor for a tummy tuck or eyelid surgery? The latest review doesn’t actually sayChristopher Rudge9 Sept 2022TelevisionPhoenix TV South Pacific and AustraliaAustralia forces people to report COVID-19 infectionsChristopher Rudge13 Jan 2022PressThe West AustralianRAT reporting rules ‘very unenforceable’Christopher Rudge12 Jan 2022PressThe Sydney Morning Herald‘Massive surge’: spike in COVID cases as NSW records rapid testsChristopher Rudge12 Jan 2022PressMedical RepublicThe ‘Mad King’ conundrumChristopher Rudge28 Mar 2018

Cameron Stewart

Television7.30, ABCFamily wants answers after insufficient colonoscopiesCameron Stewart18 Aug 2026PressABC NewsInmate’s voluntary assisted death sparks victims’ rights debateCameron Stewart5 Sep 2025Radio and podcastsThe Law Report, ABC Radio NationalChildren and medical consentCameron Stewart9 Jul 2024PressThe Medical RepublicGood Samaritan: your risks and obligationsCameron Stewart28 Feb 2023WritingThe ConversationWho’s the best doctor for a tummy tuck or eyelid surgery? The latest review doesn’t actually sayCameron Stewart1 Sep 2022PressABC News CheckMateWe looked into the lobby group taking on rugby star turned would-be senator David PocockCameron Stewart13 May 2022WritingThe Conversation#FreeBritney has many of us wondering: do we have conservatorships in Australia?Cameron Stewart13 Aug 2021Radio and podcastsFootnotes, Sydney University Law SocietyWhy Law? — The impostor syndromeCameron Stewart10 Jun 2021WritingThe ConversationDoctors do not face a greater legal risk if they give AstraZeneca to younger Australians — here’s whyCameron Stewart14 Apr 2021PressSBS NewsCould businesses deny service to Australians who refuse the coronavirus vaccine?Cameron Stewart18 Jan 2021WritingThe ConversationOne year of voluntary assisted dying in Victoria: 400 have registered, despite obstaclesCameron Stewart30 Jun 2020PressABC News Fact CheckFact check: Has assisted dying been a legal slippery slope overseas?Cameron Stewart10 Nov 2017WritingThe ConversationFinally, unproven stem cell clinic practices might be curtailedCameron Stewart27 Oct 2017Radio and podcastsThe Law Report, ABC Radio NationalVaccination and the lawCameron Stewart29 Apr 2014PressMJA InSight+Futility needs new approachCameron Stewart4 Mar 2013WritingThe ConversationSensaSlim goes SLAPP, public interest crusader cops a legal whackCameron Stewart22 Jun 2011Radio and podcastsThe Law Report, ABC Radio NationalBaby DCameron Stewart22 Mar 2011Radio and podcastsThe Law Report, ABC Radio NationalMedical researchCameron Stewart7 Dec 2010

Rita Shackel

Belinda Reeve

PressSydney Law School newsUsing public health law to confront the climate crisisBelinda Reeve30 Sep 2025PressSydney Law School newsAddressing global food system challenges through public health lawBelinda Reeve11 Mar 2024WritingSydney Environment InstituteIndigenous Peoples’ inclusion in food governance — in conversation with Dr Mark LockBelinda Reeve30 Jun 2022Writingthe Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education (FARE)Alcohol companies continue to play by their own rules, putting our children’s health at riskBelinda Reeve23 June 2022WritingCroakey Health MediaGrowing the role of local government in supporting healthy food systemsBelinda Reeve29 Nov 2021PressThe MandarinResearchers ask states to act after finding councils failing to restrict unhealthy foodBelinda Reeve22 Nov 2021PressUniversity of Sydney newsState government reforms needed to drain ‘food swamps’Belinda Reeve19 Nov 2021WritingMJA InSight+Big Alcohol and COVID-19: industry rules fail. Again.Belinda Reeve15 Apr 2021WritingMJA InSight+Strengthening law’s role in improving Australia’s dietBelinda Reeve1 Jul 2019Radio and podcastsLife Matters, ABC Radio NationalTalkback: the rise and rise of junk foodBelinda Reeve27 Nov 2018PressUniversity of Sydney newsAlcohol marketing code failing to protect young peopleBelinda Reeve26 Nov 2018Radio and podcastsJust Torts the PodcastEpisode 9 — Duty of care: generally, in conversation with Jessica OttaviBelinda Reeve3 Nov 2017PressCroakey Health MediaAustralia’s Health Tracker: a worrying report card on chronic health issuesBelinda Reeve5 Jul 2016WritingMJA InSightTime to commit to good food policyBelinda Reeve4 Jul 2016WritingUniversity of Sydney newsCould a sugary drinks tax improve Australian diets?Belinda Reeve18 Mar 2016PressUniversity of Sydney newsHow to help Australians pass on the saltBelinda Reeve30 Jul 2015PressABC NewsSports stars influence boys’ choice of food — report by Amy BainbridgeBelinda Reeve28 May 2013

Roger Magnusson

Olugbenga Olatunji