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NSW Police launch ‘No Innocent Bystanders’ campaign

November 30, 2016 by Graham Barr

NSW Police launch ‘No Innocent Bystanders’ campaign. This video campaign, in conjunction with Crime Stoppers NSW, calls on the community to report domestic violence. The powerful campaign comprises a community service announcement […]

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Assessing the Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences on Brain Development

November 29, 2016 by Graham Barr

Assessing the Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences on Brain Development. This paper reviews the course of brain development during childhood and adolescence and examines how early adverse experiences affect structural […]

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Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage Series

November 29, 2016 by Graham Barr

The seventh report in the Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage (OID) series. This Productivity Commission report provides an overview of wellbeing outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. The report explores the […]

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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention Evaluation Project

November 15, 2016 by Graham Barr

On 10th November, the government released the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention Evaluation Project report, which gave recommendations to reduce the high rate of suicide among Aboriginal and Torres Strait […]

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Community organisations lack the funding and data to measure their impact

November 8, 2016 by Graham Barr

Community organisations are struggling to measure the impact they are having due to a lack of funds and data availability, new research has found. Three quarters of community sector charities […]

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How to find a good app for mental health

November 7, 2016 by Graham Barr

Apps hold amazing potential as mental health and wellbeing tools. You can carry them everywhere, engage with them in real time as you’re experiencing distress, and interact with them in […]

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December 12, 2017

The ConversationThree reasons Australians should be concerned that NGOs’ voices are not being heard. A healthy democracy is built on the premise that public debate should allow for many and diverse voices to be heard as part of the contest for ideas that informs policymaking. If Australians want this to be the case, the current state of play offers three reasons for concern.

December 11, 2017

Family MattersThe Family Matters Report 2017 shows the rate at which Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children are removed from their families continues to be an escalating national crisis. Without immediate action from all levels of government further generations of children will be lost to their families, cultures and communities. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children are 9.8 times more likely to be living in out-of-home care than non-Indigenous children.

December 7, 2017

Mission AustraliaMission Australia have just released results from their 16th Youth Survey, in which 24,055 young people aged 15 to 19 took part. Young people identified mental health, alcohol and drugs and equity and discrimination as the most important issues in Australia today, with around one third of young people identifying mental health (33.7%) or alcohol and drugs (32.0%) as important issues in Australia today and almost three in ten respondents identifying equity and discrimination (27.3%) as a major issue. 

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