In recent months Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Minster for Health Greg Hunt have talked openly about suicide prevention and that they are ‘working towards a zero suicide goal’… and what a great aspiration for the entire nation to have.
We seldom talk about our own achievements at Mental Health Australia but this month’s WIN ! is worth a mention, and has set a precedent to ensure similar organisations based in Canberra, and potentially further afield, can fight the good fight…
“Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong.” So wrote H. L. Mencken, the twentieth-century American journalist, satirist, social critic…
When Minister for Indigenous Australians Ken Wyatt asked Australia to walk with him this week, it was another important next step towards a First People’s ‘voice’ in the constitution. ‘Too important to fail…’
Last week the team at Mental Health Australia gathered for some internal training to help initiate and inform a conversation we should all be having, if we’re not already…
Addressing young people when visiting our friends at batyr this week, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said: “… still it is the case that people are taking their own lives and are finding the stresses and strains and the mental health issues that they are combatting too much…