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Can We Talk?

Can We Talk?

For the Can We Talk? mental health campaign. The Daily Telegraph 20.6.2025 Elisabeth Goh is a corporate worker and volunteer firefighter with complex PTSD who is speaking out about how leaning on others has helped her. Pictured at Hornsby Heights RFS. Picture: Rohan Kelly

How ‘fire family’ and friends saved me during PTSD battle

As a volunteer firefighter, Elle Pookapund Goh was always the one saving others. But after the Black Summer bushfires and years of trauma, she faced her own mental health crisis.

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Jason King lost his daughter Jordan Liberty to suicide.

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Four words dad can’t say to teen daughter

Jason King doesn’t want to talk about his daughter’s suicide, but he’s dedicating his life to it in an effort to make change.

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Bek Day with her baby.

3am ‘curse’ plaguing Aussie mums

All parents worry about their kids’ health. But this mum’s obsession with her baby’s birthmark turned out to be something serious.

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Young Aussies are living at home for longer.

Problem with Aussies living at home longer

Young Australians are living with their parents for longer, but staying under the same roof doesn’t mean their relationships are close.

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My Health Record program being encouraged at Myhealth Medical Centre Campbelltown. Dr Mohammed Hasan one of the local doctors at the clinic. Photographed 10th October 2018. (AAP IMAGE/Matthew Vasilescu)

‘Compassion fatigue’: Why GPs are taking more time off

GPs are seeing a sharp increase in the number of patients with mental health problems and it’s beginning to take its toll on doctors.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA : Newswire Photos - JANUARY 07 2025; A view of a cafe in Sydney's East, as most households are under pressure with the impact of the high cost of living. Picture: Newswire/ Gaye Gerard

Gen Z problem that’s ‘difficult to escape’

They’re our nation’s best and brightest, but half of all young Aussies are fighting a crippling daily struggle – and they don’t know what to do about it.

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‘Very encouraging’: More Aussies seek help

More Australians are reaching out for help and having conversations about their mental health since the launch of a national campaign.

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The ‘microstressors’ getting Australians down

These are the daily dilemmas research has revealed are threatening the wellbeing of Australians, with some stressed people relying on a cycle of caffeine and alcohol to try and cope.

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Natalie Maciak with her dog Freya. Natalie is a millenial in her 30s who lives at home with her parents. For story on why millenials are feeling stressed, battling to get ahead with cost of living. Picture: Josie Hayden

Why millennials are still living with their parents

Natalie is 35, studying her third degree, and lives at home with her parents. She is one of many millennials struggling to get ahead. This is why the generation is battling.

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Donna Groves. Picture: Donna Groves/Supplied

Shock reason behind Aussie’s ‘breakdown’

Victorian business-owner Donna seemed to be nailing life – until everything suddenly changed and started “crumbling down”.

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‘I watched my son die in front of me’

An Australian woman who has spent decades as an unpaid carer going from “one crisis to another” has shared the moment she realised the system was broken.

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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos, SEPTEMBER 14. 2021. Prof Pat McGorry at a press conference to talk about the latest COVID-19 situation in Victoria. Picture: NCA NewsWire / David Crosling

Sector holds out hope for campaign after budget let-down

Mental health failed to secure any big wins in the budget, and experts are holding out hope the election campaign will see the overwhelmed system in the spotlight.

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10-month wait that nearly broke 24yo

A Melbourne woman reveals how she found herself in a “confronting” situation after Covid-19, with health experts warning of a “crisis”.

AFLW footballer Maddy Prespakis with partner Sophie Cachia and Cachia's kids Bobby, Floss and Esme (who was born about six weeks ago). Picture: Ian Currie

From trolls to triumph: How baby changed AFLW star’s life

After a harrowing experience with body shamers, AFLW star Maddy Prespakis says becoming a parent figure to Sophie Cachia’s baby has put things in perspective.

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