The chief medical officer of the Western Australian mental health commission will lead a review into the case of a man released from the Royal Adelaide Hospital on Monday and charged with a stabbing murder two days later.
The new study, published in Global Environmental Change, found that both Europeans and Australians were highly concerned about the human health impact of marine plastic pollution, ranking it top of 16 marine-related threats in terms of cause for concern, including chemical or oil spills, marine biodiversity loss and climate change related effects such as sea-level rise and ocean acidification.