Please download, read and share this 49-page report compiling our coverage from the recent Victorian Mental Illness Awareness Council (VMIAC) biennial conference in Melbourne. Marie McInerne... Read more
The Victorian Mental Illness Awareness Council (VMIAC) biennial conference took place late last month amid a huge momentum in mental health reform – with draft reports being published... Read more
Marie McInerney writes: Police should not be involved in most frontline mental health crisis responses because too often their interactions escalate and result in further distress, trauma, p... Read more
Marie McInerney writes: United States psychiatrist Dr Daniel Fisher believes that people like him, who have been diagnosed and labelled with mental illness, are like the “canaries in t... Read more
Marie McInerney writes: The Productivity Commission inquiry into mental health has called on health services and medical colleges to address the bias, discrimination and bullying that peer w... Read more
Marie McInerney writes: “If we replaced the current mental health system with something wonderful, what would it look like?” That was the question at the heart of a Declaration, launch... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: The mental health and wellbeing of children and young people is one of the key areas identified for action in a two-volume draft report released today by the Product... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: Mental health reform is in the spotlight this week as critical national investigations – the Productivity Commission inquiry into mental health and the Royal Commiss... Read more
