Natasha Robinson

Natasha Robinson is The Australian’s health editor and writes across medicine, science, health policy, research, and lifestyle. Natasha has been a journalist for more than 20 years in newspapers and broadcasting, has been recognised as the National Press Club’s health journalist of the year and is a Walkley awards finalist and a Kennedy Awards winner. She is a former Northern Territory correspondent for The Australian with a special interest in Indigenous health. Natasha is also a graduate of the NSW Legal Profession Admission Board’s Diploma of Law and has been accepted as a doctoral candidate at QUT’s Australian Centre for Health Law Research, researching involuntary mental health treatment and patient autonomy.

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INQUIRERInquirer

Emergency Psychiatrist Jacqueline Huber in the new PANDA wing at St. Vincent's Hospital. There has been a 600 per cent surge in demand for services to beat loneliness. Picture: Dylan Robinson

Code red for mental health as psychiatrists walk off the job

About two-thirds of NSW public hospital staff specialists say enough to a system in crisis.

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EXCLUSIVEHealth

Trainee psychiatrists say they fear for patient safety and have been coping with untenable workloads. Picture: Getty Images

Psychiatry mutiny now a full-blown crisis

Trainee psychiatrists say they fear for patient safety and have been coping with untenable workloads as registrars in the specialty add their support to an uprising.

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reviewHealth

*FILE PIX* NCA NewsWire Photos: Editorial generic stock image relating to pollution, plastic, microplastics and the environment. Picture: NCA NewsWire

Microplastics linked to cancers, infertility

A scientific review of the effect of microplastics has found they cause infertility and are associated with colon cancer.

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healthHealth

HELPING HAND: There are a number of mental health services available across the Fraser Coast.

Mental health doctors quit ‘to save system’

Almost one in five psychiatrists employed in NSW public hospitals have tendered their resignations, with more to come, in an extraordinary bid to stem a mutiny of public sector doctors and improve patient care.

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HUGE DATA SETSHealth

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AI to supercharge genomic medicine, but risks loom

Advancements in whole-genome sequencing have ignited a revolution in digital biology. But the commercialisation of genetic databases poses many risks.

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NSWHealth

Psychiatrists threaten mass walkout

Staff specialist psychatrists are threatening a mass walkout after the NSW government failed to offer them a single extra dollar in pay, despite a critically depleted workforce.

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EXCLUSIVEHealth

27 September 2024; Photo comp of a photo of a window of the dilapidated former Rozelle Hospital in Sydney, previously called Callan Park, was one of the largest mental asylums in the nation before it was shut and an image of a man's forlorn face looking outside the window; Sources: Max Mason-Huber and iStock. Photo comp by Emilia Tortorella. Ratio 4:3.

Mental health system is ‘fundamentally broken’

One of the nation’s most prominent psychiatrists says those with the most severe conditions are critically neglected and marginalised, as the AMA calls for systemic reform.

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ANALYSISHealth

A security guard sits in a psychiatric inpatient ward outside the door of a mother who has just given birth. Picture: Supplied

Our neglect is truly our national shame

The neglect of all of those living with severe mental illness boils down to a single driving factor. We think it is indifference.

Natasha Robinson and Steve Robson

INQUIRERHealth

The clearing out of asylums was meant to provide hope. Instead it spawned an underclass

The severely mentally ill were promised a better future after asylums were mothballed. The promises were hollow.

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EXCLUSIVEHealth

13/12/24: Matt Berriman, former chair of Mental Health Australia, who suffers bipolar disorder and is campaigning for a better mental health system. John Feder/The Australian.

Deadly neglect of mentally ill a national shame

Matt Berriman, who suffers from bipolar disorder, says Australia’s mental health system almost cost him his life when he was admitted four years ago. Now he wants to see change.

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