My father died at fifty. My mother lived to eighty and could have seen ninety-five. Smoking took both of them, and it took my little brother, who grew up watching what it did to them and started anyway. He is dead too. I have detested tobacco since I was five years old, arguing with my parents at th
Dr Brian Walker explores the importance of scientific inquiry and the necessity of challenging the status quo for a healthier, more transparent Western Australia.
Dr Brian Walker highlights the urgent need for mandatory, enforceable standards in Western Australian animal shelters to ensure the basic dignity and health of every impounded animal.
Dr Brian Walker discusses the need for regular parliamentary engagement with the Local Government Inspector to ensure transparency, accountability, and support for Western Australian local councils.
Dr Brian Walker questions the government on German cannabis legalisation and its impact on driving, urging reliance on scientific evidence rather than stalling tactics to ensure road safety and sensible reform.
Dr Brian Walker addresses the current status of medicinal cannabis driving reforms, pushing for evidence-based changes to protect patients who rely on legal medication.
Dr Brian Walker explores the disconnect between current police training for cannabis impairment and the evidence-based approaches needed to ensure fair and accurate roadside assessment in Western Australia.
Dr Brian Walker addresses the government's flawed energy transition plans and the urgent need for transparency in the new capital charges legislation for Western Australia's grid.
A patient was driving home on a long weekend. They take a prescribed medicine for anxiety. It happens to be a cannabis medicine, and they had taken the dose the evening before, the way the prescription recommends. There was no sign of impairment when the police pulled them over, and no test for impa
A man sat down in front of me a few years ago and I have not really stopped thinking about him since. He had served. He came home from that service carrying things the rest of us were spared, and by the time he reached my room the word for it was PTSD, though the word tells you almost nothing about
The last piece left a question hanging, the way the one before it left a question for that. If some of what divides us is real and some of it is only made to look that way, and a person can now tell which is which, then we are no longer asking whether we secretly agree. We are asking something harde
Telling a real divide from a distorted one The last piece ended with a question I left hanging. I had sorted the reasons a good idea takes so long to catch on into four kinds, and said that telling them apart was the whole of the job. I closed by asking something harder. When we look at everything t