Psychiatrists have added their voice to calls for Australia to rethink a deportation policy allowing for New Zealanders convicted of a criminal offence to be sent home, expressing serious co... Read more
From substance use and post-traumatic stress to matters of love and death, the 2019 Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists annual congress in Cairns highlighted and explor... Read more
Insight or intrusion? That was the question posed about the use of data in a digitised world, and what it might mean for health, health care, health services, and a healthy society, at the 2... Read more
Culture, diversity and mutual learning were the key themes of this year’s annual meeting of Australian and New Zealand Psychiatrists, and the program delivered some refreshing insights... Read more
Eating disorders have been put front and centre of the Morrison government’s mental health platform, with dedicated treatments available under Medicare for the first time from later th... Read more
Marie McInerney writes: Rates of depression, anxiety and suicide among doctors have made headlines in recent years, underscored by high profile campaigns like #crazysocks4docs, but in ways t... Read more
Climate change, species extinction and habitat loss pose a risk to mental health and psychiatrists have a duty of care to speak out on the “radical action” required from our lead... Read more
As both major parties jostle for poll-driven primacy in the mental health space, Australia’s psychiatrists are urging a deeper commitment to mental health and its determinants –... Read more
