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If We’re to Have Another Inquiry into Mental Health, it Should Look at Why the Others Have Been Ignored
If We’re to Have Another Inquiry into Mental Health, it Should Look at Why the Others Have Been Ignored

Mental Illness, Society & Culture

If We’re to Have Another Inquiry into Mental Health, it Should Look at Why the Others Have Been Ignored

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has promised to hold a royal commission into mental health if Labor wins the November state election. Last week’s announcement comes a couple of weeks after the federal government asked the Productivity Commission to inquire “into the role of mental health in the Australian economy and the best ways to support [...]

By Generation Next|2021-03-03T15:39:28+11:00November 5th, 2018|Categories: Mental Illness, Society & Culture|Tags: action, Australian politics, emotional trauma, Mental Health|0 Comments

No Singular Revelation

In early 2014, a Sydneysider was filmed racially abusing a young Asian woman on the train, shouting racist insults and loudly mimicking her accent. She then verbally attacked an Anglo-Australian man she presumed to be the woman’s partner. While the community response to the changes to section 18C, and the widespread public condemnation of attacks [...]

By Dr Ramesh Manocha|2015-01-16T15:18:42+11:00January 16th, 2015|Categories: Society & Culture|Tags: australia, Australian politics, brain development, Human Rights, people, racism|0 Comments