Hospitals will treat em and street em

From today’s Australian an article by Ian Hickie: GOING into Monday’s Council of Australian Governments meeting, the signs for genuine mental health reform were good. Kevin Rudd had indicated his support for those young Australians who face tough times. Health Minister Nicola Roxon was a fierce critic of Tony Abbott’s failure to reform commonwealth mental [...]

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Mental Health Weekly Digest

Every week we wrap up the national and international news from Australia and overseas. Last week was TheMHS Conference hence the gap in the digest: National Pregnancy depression screening concern Face it we are all narcissists now New treatment for chronically depressed National Preventative Health Strategy Launched Council of experts central to Territory’s revised mental [...]

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MHS Achievement Award Winners Announced

The 2009 Australian and NZ Achievement Awards are just about to get underway. Live-blogging notes below: The Award program essentially deals with innovation in the mental health industry. The money awarded was granted by the Australian and NZ government.  The programs have made contributions to the transfer of ideas throughout the industry. Sen.Claire Moore  now [...]

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TheMHS Conference has begun!

Well it is Wednesday and yesterday was a great start to the conference with speakers such as Kim Mulholland,  Dr Carmen Lawrence  and Jill Benson. Today we have a Welcome to Country and Opening ceremony in the morning followed by our MHS Achievement Awards – so stay tuned as I will be live-blogging during the [...]

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