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‘Huge’ proportion of mental health conditions in Australia found to be caused by childhood maltreatment
via theguardian.comAlmost a quarter of the 1.8m cases of depression, anxiety and substancedisorders could be prevented, researchers findGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastIf child abuse and neglect did not exist, almost a quarter of the more than 1.8m cases of depression, anxiety and substance use disorders in Australia could be prevented.The finding comes from the first Australian study to estimate the proportion of mental health conditions which are directly caused by childh -
Australia’s health watchdog warns patients are being overprescribed psychotropic medication
via theguardian.comRoyal commissions into disability and aged care found ‘a fundamental problem’ with how the drugs were usedGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastGlenda Parkin was 56 when she was diagnosed with younger-onset dementia, a rare visual variant of Alzheimer’s disease known as posterior cortical atrophy. She became functionally blind and her ability to perceive the world around her gradually deteriorated.While the diagnosis forced Parkin to retire at -
Australia should pass bill to ban non-prescription vapes, Senate committee finds
via theguardian.comRecommendation comes after two days of hearings and nearly 300 submissions from health, education, pharmaceutical and other sectorsGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastA bill to ban the manufacture, sale and advertising of vapes in Australia should be passed, a Senate committee has recommended, after evidence from public hearings and almost 300 submissions.If passed by the Senate, the legislation will mean the only way vapes can legally be obtained is through -
Labor councillor stands by vote to ban same-sex parenting books in Sydney council libraries – as it happened
via theguardian.comThis blog is now closedGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastCFMEU welcomes funding of 15,000 fee-free construction Tafe places in budgetThe CFMEU has welcomed a funding boost for apprenticeships and traineeships in the upcoming budget.This investment will mean more apprentices and trainees will get the training they need to build critical housing and infrastructure that Australia desperately needs …There’s an often-overlooked distinction between a -
Australia news live: Labor councillor stands by vote to ban same-sex parenting books in Sydney council libraries
via theguardian.comCouncillor Mohamad Hussein says his decision was made ‘in line with my religious beliefs’. Follow today’s news liveGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastCFMEU welcomes funding of 15,000 fee-free construction Tafe places in budgetThe CFMEU has welcomed a funding boost for apprenticeships and traineeships in the upcoming budget.This investment will mean more apprentices and trainees will get the training they need to build critical housing and i -
Australia news live: generational wealth transfer a ‘national tragedy’, Victorian treasurer says
via theguardian.comTim Pallas says the inequality between generations requires urgent action. Follow today’s news liveGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastCFMEU welcomes funding of 15,000 fee-free construction Tafe places in budgetThe CFMEU has welcomed a funding boost for apprenticeships and traineeships in the upcoming budget.This investment will mean more apprentices and trainees will get the training they need to build critical housing and infrastructure that Australia -
Australia news live: Sydney councillor defends library ban on same-sex parenting book; Lehrmann trial costs decision due Friday
via theguardian.comSteve Christou says Cumberland residents have complained they ‘don’t want any form of sexualised books’. Follow today’s news liveGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastCFMEU welcomes funding of 15,000 fee-free construction Tafe places in budgetThe CFMEU has welcomed a funding boost for apprenticeships and traineeships in the upcoming budget.This investment will mean more apprentices and trainees will get the training they need to build cr -
News live: Australia confers with New Zealand on Rafah and looming UN vote; Lehrmann trial costs decision due Friday
via theguardian.comAustralia has tended to move closely with New Zealand and Canada since December, when all three countries shifted together to vote in favour of an immediate humanitarian ceasefire. Follow today’s news liveAnalysis: Why Anthony Albanese will face a tough call when the UN votes on full membership for PalestineGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastCFMEU welcomes funding of 15,000 fee-free construction Tafe places in budgetThe CFMEU has welcomed a funding boo -
Australia news live: Queensland poised to limit K’gari visits amid wave of dingo attacks; Electric Fields crash out of Eurovision semi
via theguardian.comThe number of tourists on K’gari could soon be capped on the busiest days of the year. Follow today’s news liveGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastCFMEU welcomes funding of 15,000 fee-free construction Tafe places in budgetThe CFMEU has welcomed a funding boost for apprenticeships and traineeships in the upcoming budget.This investment will mean more apprentices and trainees will get the training they need to build critical housing and infrastruct -
News live: legal appeal to repatriate Australian children from ‘desperate’ situation in Syria begins in federal court
via theguardian.comSave the Children CEO says time is running out. Follow today’s news liveGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastCFMEU welcomes funding of 15,000 fee-free construction Tafe places in budgetThe CFMEU has welcomed a funding boost for apprenticeships and traineeships in the upcoming budget.This investment will mean more apprentices and trainees will get the training they need to build critical housing and infrastructure that Australia desperately needs … -
Australia news live: Electric Fields crash out of Eurovision semi-final; Palaszczuk finds first post-politics role
via theguardian.comFormer Queensland premier appointed international ambassador for the Smart Energy Council. Follow today’s news liveGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastCFMEU welcomes funding of 15,000 fee-free construction Tafe places in budgetThe CFMEU has welcomed a funding boost for apprenticeships and traineeships in the upcoming budget.This investment will mean more apprentices and trainees will get the training they need to build critical housing and infrastructur -
Australia News live: Electric Fields crash out of Eurovision semi-final; half of NSW threatened species face extinction
via theguardian.comNew report finds decline of the state’s environment has accelerated. Follow today’s news liveGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastCFMEU welcomes funding of 15,000 fee-free construction Tafe places in budgetThe CFMEU has welcomed a funding boost for apprenticeships and traineeships in the upcoming budget.This investment will mean more apprentices and trainees will get the training they need to build critical housing and infrastructure that Australia -
News live: Russian hacker sanctioned; China blames Australia for jet flare encounter
via theguardian.comDmitry Khoroshev banned from country for his alleged leadership role in the LockBit ransomware group. Follow today’s news liveGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastGood morning and welcome to the rolling news blog. I’m Martin Farrer and I’ll be bringing you a few of the top overnight stories before Emily Wind comes along shortly.An alleged leader of international ransomware group LockBit has been hit with financial sanctions and banned from tr -
Why have we been excluded? The students left out of Labor’s promised placement payments
via theguardian.comUniversities Australia backs the proposed allowance but students not on the list are ‘devastated’ and argue $8 is a ‘slap in the face’Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastBy the time Lauren – not her real name – finishes her radiography degree, she’ll have completed 1,600 hours of work without pay.So when the government announced this week that it would give student -
What is the most important word in medicine? It is not what we teach doctors | Ranjana Srivastava
via theguardian.comWhen asked what advice an eminent surgeon might give other doctors, I brace myself for another mountain I can’t climb“What’s a Festschrift?” my youngest asks.“In German it means ‘celebration writing’,” I say, “I’m going to an academic conference to honour a doctor.” Continue reading... -
‘Placement poverty’ to be tackled in Labor budget with new payments for student teachers and nurses
via theguardian.comMidwives and social workers will also be given $320 weekly payment for undertaking mandatory work placements at universityGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastStudent teachers, nurses, midwives and social workers will receive a $320 weekly payment during their mandatory placements under a new cost-of-living measure in the May budget.The Albanese government will establish a commonwealth practical payment for 68,000 university students and 5,000 vocational educa -
‘A complete 180’: how a trial treatment in Sydney for heroin addiction is changing lives
via theguardian.comExclusive: Robbie Mason wanted to give up but just didn’t know how. Then he and his partner joined Australia’s first hydromorphone trialGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastRobbie Mason started using heroin when he was a child.His hands are dotted with pinprick scars. He used for so long he stopped being able to inject into the veins in his arms, so he turned to his fingers. Continue reading... -
The not-so-secret cost of being superhuman: elite sport’s problem with disordered eating
via theguardian.comAthletes are breaking their silence about their experience of eating disorders and disordered eating. Why is this happening in an arena celebrated as the epitome of health?Elite sport has long been consumed with the idea of the superhuman. Pushing the capabilities of the human body to its extremes in the hopes of uncovering the blueprint to engineer bodies that can jump higher, run faster and endure longer. And, as professionalism has increased, so too has the optimisation of athletes’ bod -
Nadine Garner: ‘You don’t want to get on bended knee to your child and go, please treat me with a bit more respect’
via theguardian.comThe Australian actor opens up on theatre as community service, bringing mental illness to the stage and the deep desire by mothers to be seen by their childrenGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailThe long brown ribbon of the Merri Creek flows through Wurundjeri country, past the industrial northern suburbs of Melbourne/Naarm until it joins the Yarra. On this unseasonably warm autumn day people are out in the sun, riding and running along the path that traces the creek’s edge where I -
Researchers urge more Australian pharmacies to stock anti-opioid overdose drug naloxone
via theguardian.comWith unintentional opioid-related deaths nearly tripling nationally since 2006, experts are calling for greater awarenessFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastJust 60% of pharmacies stock naloxone, a life-saving medication that rapidly reverses the effects of an opioid overdose, as concerns grow about the danger posed by synthetic opioids.A survey of 530 pharmacies across New South Wales, Victoria, Queenslan -
Healthy hospital staff posed as ‘fake’ patients for Victorian minister’s visit, investigation confirms
via theguardian.comHealth minister Mary-Anne Thomas says 10 people who were not unwell were inside Colac area health’s urgent care clinic during her 2023 visit Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastVictoria’s health minister says an investigation has confirmed that 10 hospital staff posed as “fake patients” during her visit to a regional care clinic last year, including one who arrived by ambulance.Mary -
The fringe groups taking an interest in Queensland’s council elections - podcast
via theguardian.comMy Place emerged from the highly vocal Covid-19 anti-lockdown protests. It’s a network which reportedly has thousands of members and is predominantly active in Facebook community groups. Some of the ideas that these groups believe are that vaccines are deadly, fluoride in water is dangerous and 5G is a threat.Lately My Place has been taking its ideologies offline and into local government, with some groups allegedly playing a role in supporting candidates inQueensland council elections.So -
You’ve heard of the placebo effect – but what’s the nocebo effect? Is pain all in the mind?
via theguardian.comThe beneficial effect’s negative cousin is garnering more attention as Australian researchers say ‘social contagion’ is possibleFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastWhen Dr Henry Beecher had no morphine to offer wounded soldiers during the second world war, he started administering a plain saline solution to give soldiers at least the impression of receiving pain relief.After the soldiers -
Most menopause hormone therapy patches unavailable in Australia for several weeks
via theguardian.comTGA advises manufacturing issues are causing shortages of multiple brands, with supplies to return to normal by JulyFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastAustralia’s drugs regulator has warned that most menopause hormone therapy patches, used to treat menopause symptoms, will not be available until the middle of the year.The patches contain the hormone estradiol, levels of which drop in the body during -
Junior doctors work themselves to exhaustion in unpaid overtime. It is demoralising – so I took a stand | Amireh Fakhouri
via theguardian.comThe fatigue affects our wellbeing and our ability to care for patients. Hospitals are only as good as their staff so we must look after them“I did it and so will you.” These few words shaped my experience as a junior doctor. My superiors expected me to work long hours, often to a point of total exhaustion. They told me it was part and parcel of the job.Before I became a junior doctor, I knew the job would require long hours. The work would be unpredictable. There would be emergencies -
Eating disorders are not a choice, they are a disease – I wish more people knew how treatable they are | Xavier Mulenga
via theguardian.comRecovery can be a lengthy process, but I see more people get better when they engage with treatment than notEmily is a 24-year-old single female with anorexia nervosa and depression who was referred for an assessment due to restricting food intake, being underweight with some alcohol abuse. Emily had been living in a share house but has returned to living with her parents due to her worsening mental health.Anorexia nervosa is a psychiatric disease in which patients restrict their food intake (by -
Bulk-billed GP visits rise following introduction of incentives for doctors, data shows
via theguardian.comDoctors’ groups say improved bulk billing rate is ‘encouraging’ but more investment in health system is neededGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe federal government’s bulk billing changes have helped more Australians see a GP, but peak doctors’ groups say the reforms are only a “down payment” on what they want to see in next month’s budget to help reduce healthcare costs.New data from the health minister, Ma -
Bulk-billed GP visits rise after introduction of incentives for doctors, data shows
via theguardian.comDoctors’ groups say improved rate is ‘encouraging’ but more investment in health system is neededFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe federal government’s bulk-billing changes have helped more Australians see a GP, but peak doctors’ groups say the reforms are only a “down payment” on what they want to see in next month’s budget to help reduce healthcare co -
Pressure and Release: horse therapy for young Indigenous Australians
via theguardian.comThe Kimberley region of Western Australia is a harsh yet beautiful place. However, its natural beauty conceals a community in crisis – devastated by a pattern of suicides among its Aboriginal youth. A glimmer of hope emerges in the form of Prof Juli Coffin, a Nyangamurta woman and mental-health professional who enlists her herd of horses to create deeply felt connections between animal and human. Coffin’s programme uses a culturally appropriate setting to support long-term healing fo
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