Mental health
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I’m locked out of voting this election. I feel less Australian than ever
I haven’t lived in Australia for 12 years, but I keep finding myself back here at election time. It’s ironic, really, because I no longer have a say in who leads my homeland.
- Megan Clement
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Accused pool killer’s protests over hospital mental health treatment
Brian Barnes is accused of killing an elderly woman in a dispute over a local swimming pool in the small Victorian town of Quambatook.
- Melissa Cunningham
Brainstorm: Australian inventor may have key to predicting epilepsy seizures
Scarlett Paige had the world at her feet. And then she couldn’t control her mouth. It took months to be diagnosed with epilepsy but a new device could change that.
- Liam Mannix
- Analysis
- Prince Andrew
Virginia Giuffre’s suicide draws line under Prince Andrew’s hopes of redemption
The death of Virginia Giuffre brings to a tragic close the most unedifying and damaging royal scandal in living memory.
- Hannah Furness
The uncommon leave more and more workers are taking
As more younger people enter the workforce, taking time off for your mental health is becoming more common and less taboo.
- Cathy Bussewitz
‘I’m running out of ways to forget’: For many, the war is never over
There is a parallel world that moves through Anzac Day. It is the shadowland inhabited by those who served this country. It is a land defined by its loss.
- Warwick McFadyen
- Exclusive
- Coroners Court of Victoria
‘They took my child from me’: Families call for change after Indigenous suicides in same hospital
After the suicides of two young Indigenous women in a Melbourne mental health ward, the women’s parents are demanding answers and justice.
- Erin Pearson
Want to make good habits stick? Try this beautifully simple technique
You may unknowingly be using this method already, but now there’s science to back it up. Its potential for change lies in its simplicity.
- Lauren Ironmonger
- Investigation
- Medical misogyny
Ella was locked in a psych ward at 19 weeks pregnant, but doctors had misdiagnosed her
The pregnant mother of two just wanted some relief for severe nausea. She was in disbelief when she was later admitted to a mental health unit.
- Kate Aubusson
- Investigation
- Medical misogyny
A woman thought she had a stalker. Authorities sent her to a psych ward
This masthead has uncovered a series of disturbing cases where women say they have been disbelieved, misdiagnosed, and wrongly admitted to mental health wards. Others have been told their pain is “all in their head”.
- Aisha Dow and Kate Aubusson
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