Newsletters / Bulletins

This week I’ve invited Professor Sharon Lawn, Executive Director of Lived Experience Australia and Mental Health Australia Board member to share some of her reflections with us following the incident at Bondi. This is a very difficult time for the lived experience community and the mental health sector more broadly, and Lived Experience Australia has written powerfully about improving community dialogue around this incident and continuing to care for each other and ourselves through this time.

Over the past week, the extreme rain events across the majority of eastern Australia - including in the capital cities of Sydney and Brisbane - have highlighted the mental health implications of the climate crisis for our communities, our wellbeing and our mental health system.

Yesterday I joined CEO s and executive leaders, support coordinators and workers, policy makers, advocates and academics at the 2024 NDIS Conference to deliver a keynote speech on the transformation of the provision of psychosocial supports through the NDIS and Foundational Supports outside the NDIS .

This week I was delighted to virtually attend the inaugural Preventive Mental Health Symposium, hosted by the Public Health Association of Australia in partnership with Beyond Blue. The symposium brought together leaders from across public and mental health sectors to discuss how we can collectively amplify our efforts in promoting mental wellbeing and preventing mental health conditions.