News and updates

The McCabe Centre is honoured to have contributed to the Advanced Breast Cancer (ABC) Global Decade Report 2.0: Knowledge in Motion – A Decade Reviewed, A Decade Defined. In Chapter 10: Legal and Workplace Rights for People with ABC, we explored the legal and employment protections available to people living with advanced breast cancer (ABC) across different jurisdictions. Read more >: Proud contribution to the ABC Global Decade Report 2.0

We’re so proud to launch the Law & Alcohol Policy Brief for the Western Pacific Region! This new resource is designed for parliamentarians, health officials, and public servants working on legal and policy reform. It highlights why regulating alcohol is a public health priority — and how to do it effectively. Read more >: Launch of Law & Alcohol Policy Brief for Western Pacific Region

We joined forces with some incredible Indopacific health leaders and over 120 participants from across Australia and globally for a timely and powerful webinar: “How do we turn global promises on NCDs and mental health into real change in our region?” Read more >: Turning Global Promises into Action

As I sat in the UN General Assembly Hall in New York last month, surrounded by global leaders and changemakers, I found myself reflecting not just on the change we can make in the world.

By: Hayley Jones, Director, McCabe Centre

Read more >: UN Reflections – it’s personal

Canberra, Australia – Last week, Parliament House played host to a pivotal event co-hosted by The George Institute for Global Health and the McCabe Centre for Law & Cancer, bringing together leaders across government, health, civil society and academia. Read more >: Australia’s Role in Global NCD Action highlighted at Parliamentary Event

Last week, McCabe Centre’s Legal Policy Adviser, Clare Slattery presented on “why law is a critical tool for addressing the cancer burden of alcohol, including a case study on cancer warning labels in Ireland”. Over 100 people tuned in to the presentation on the Turning Point platform. Read more >: Using Law to Reduce the Cancer Burden of Alcohol

It’s time to talk about how food systems, health and climate intersect. Reflections from the WHO ACE Regional Roundtable on Food Systems, Health, Climate and Environment Read more >: It’s time to talk about how food systems, health and climate intersect

Our McCabe Centre was honoured to be invited to present in a range of sessions at the World Conference on Tobacco Control Conference in Dublin, Ireland - 23-25 June 2025. The conference presented a valuable opportunity to connect and collaborate, at a crucial time in the global fight against tobacco. Read more >: Global Tobacco Control Conference ignites fresh opportunities

Every day, tobacco and nicotine industries use carefully engineered products and deceptive tactics to hook a new generation of users and keep existing ones. Tobacco and nicotine industries use insidious strategies to make their harmful products appealing, especially to young people. Read more >: The WHO’s World No Tobacco Day theme this year is “Exposing lies, protecting lives: Unmask the appeal of tobacco and nicotine products”.

Our Pacific Regional Advisor, Delphina Kerslake was part of the International experts team who worked together with the national experts team of the Cook Islands in providing technical review for the first Joint External Evaluation (JEE) for health security in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO). Read more >: Cook Islands’ first Joint External Evaluation takes a multisectoral, holistic approach to strengthen health security

At the McCabe Centre for Law & Cancer, we’ve always believed in the power of the law and its effectiveness to prevent and control cancer. And for over a decade, our International Legal Training Program (ILTP) has been equipping legal and policy professionals with the skills to drive real change. Read more >: Empowering legal change for noncommunicable diseases: the impact of our International Legal Training Program

If I look back to when I finished school, I had interests in both law and health. I studied biomedicine in my undergraduate degree and have subsequently gone on to study law but had not yet found a way to combine the two areas of interest. Fortunately, I came across the McCabe Centre through the Melbourne Law School’s legal internship program. Read more >: Reflections from our Melbourne Law School intern: Jeremy Hand

Reflections on the 2nd WHO Global Conference on Air Pollution and Health: There are few things more important to life than the air we breathe. Yet almost nobody on the planet has access to clean air - 99% of the world live somewhere where the air fails to meet the World Health Organization’s air quality standards, and air pollution kills more than 7 million people each year. Read more >: Laws for clean air will save lives

Human rights law recognises that cancer prevention protects and promotes our right to health. Suzanne Zhou, from the McCabe Centre for Law and Cancer and member of the WCRF Policy Advisory Group, explains how and why cancer prevention advocates must engage with this body of law to maximise the co-benefits of human rights and cancer prevention policies in this piece for World Cancer Research Fund. Read more >: Putting human rights at the heart of cancer prevention

How do gender dynamics shape cancer prevention, treatment, and care? UICC’s new 9-week online course explores this critical issue, offering insights from the Lancet Commission on women, power and cancer. This new course covers the influence of gender dynamics in cancer prevention, treatment, and care -and how to advocate for change. Read more >: Women, power and cancer - implementing the Lancet Commission's recommendations