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945HealthThe anti- depressant/placebo smackdown
Photo: Julia Nicolle, Flickr, here Maggie Maguire, TT’s mental health issues writer, quotes tormented poet and well known non-complying antidepressant drop-out Leonard...
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1.1KOpinion
Who exactly has the frontal lobe damage?
Picture: HERE Reading Robert Whitaker’s book Anatomy of an Epidemic (Broadway, 2010) was quite a disturbing experience. His major premise appears to...
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894Economy
A child protection system under serious stress
The Tasmanian Greens today welcomed the release of the House of Assembly Select Committee Inquiry into Child Protection’s Report, which is the...
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866Economy
Notes for a kind taxpayer
This article is for you the Kind Taxpayer. You are being required to support mental health even more this financial year than...
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931Health
Colony 47: It’s all in the name
The Colony 47 Drop-In Centre is said to be facing closure because of an increase in rents causing a $150,000 shortfall. However...
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835Economy
The Budget: What’s in it for mental health …
The 2011 Federal Budget, despite being lauded as making mental health the “centrepiece” of the Gillard Budget, is not as finely targeted...
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845Health
Euthanasia: Do we really want this?
Lara Giddings has reiterated that she will put euthanasia on the Parliamentary programme. I hate to invoke the dreaded Reductio ad Hitlerum...
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3.2KHealth
A depressing Australian Story
It’s not often that you come away from the ABC’s Australian Story with negative feelings about the featured person. I have a...
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839Health
Dear Minister for Mental Health
Dear Minister, Congratulations on your position Minister. You must be looking around for opportunities to make a big difference to Mental Health...
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847Economy
For a few dollars more …
Is poverty, including housing insecurity a major factor in the hospitalization of people with mental illness? Anglicare raises this issue in its...
