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Victoria has altered the timeline of multiple mental health royal commission recommendations

Victoria fails royal commission timeline as mental health reforms delayed

The Allan government has backtracked on its promise to implement all recommendations from the Royal Commission into Victoria’s Mental Health System on time.

  • Kieran Rooney, Broede Carmody and Rachel Eddie

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Former mental health royal commissioner Allan Fels.

Taxpayers hand over $1b a year for a mental health levy. No one knows exactly how it’s spent

A former mental health royal commissioner has called for a breakdown of how the money is being spent, with a lack of transparency fuelling concerns it’s not being used as promised.

  • Broede Carmody and Rachel Eddie
Men play a pivotal role in each other’s mental health.

Men need to be better at helping men. Their lives depend on it

As a society, we have made progress in talking about men’s mental health. But not nearly enough.

  • Sarah Berry
NSW upper house member Jeremy Buckingham says parents of young people struggling with mental health issues can suffer under guilt and stigma.

Every night, Jeremy Buckingham went to bed hoping his son was OK

The upper house member is hesitant to say he returned to politics in his son’s memory, but says the state’s inadequate mental health system was behind the decision.

  • Mary Ward
Jim and Maureen on Manly seafront.

How a simple T-shirt message widened Maureen’s world

Living with dementia, Maureen went largely unnoticed in her wheelchair on Manly seafront until her husband created a touching message T-shirt that changed everything.

  • Tim Barlass

At 17, I started pulling out my hair. I thought I was the only one who did it

My secret habit gave me a sense of comfort.

  • Adele Dumont
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Comedian Trevor Noah, reality show stars Abbie Chatfield and Paris Hilton, singer Robbie Williams, media personality Mia Freedman, actor Chloe Hayden and US Olympic gymnast Simone Biles have shared their experiences with ADHD.
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Celebrities open up about ADHD

Comedian Trevor Noah, reality show stars Abbie Chatfield and Paris Hilton, singer Robbie Williams, media personality Mia Freedman, actor Chloe Hayden and US Olympic gymnast Simone Biles have shared their experiences with ADHD.

Ali Davut Sarikaya, who also goes by the name David Kaye.

Banned ‘psychologist’ still involved in counselling services in NSW

The Health Care Complaints Commission has warned the public to avoid a Sydney-based therapy clinic, saying it was “not safe to receive any counselling or health services from Mr David Kaye”.

  • Angus Thomson
Courtney Topic was shot dead by police while in the grip of a mental health crisis in 2015.

‘Bullet to the heart’: Grieving parents call for mental health role in police response

Leesa and Ron Topic’s lives were forever broken when their daughter was shot by police in 2015. They’ve joined dozens of respected legal experts and advocates to plead for reform.

  • Laura Banks and Perry Duffin
Krista Kach died in hospital after police peppered her with bean bag rounds and Tasered her to bring to a close a nine-hour siege.

‘People in crisis need help not a bullet’: Mental health experts banned from helping police

Mental health clinicians are tethered to desks while police respond to mental health crises as the state government admits the system is broken.

  • Laura Banks

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