The Guardian • mental health
Issue #2003
Mental health crisis
Suicide in Australia is the leading cause of death for people aged between fifteen and forty-four with one in five people being diagnosed with a...
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Issue #2018
Workplace deaths and serious injuries on the rise
Since 2018 there has been a thirty-two per cent increase in deaths at work and an eight per cent increase in serious workplace injuries. There...
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Issue #2017
DINGO
The 1959 act that brought the Reserve Bank of Australia into being, stated in its objectives that the bank will be committed to full employment,...
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Issue #2018
Listen to the science! State of the environment report
During the 2019-2020 bushfires thirty-three lives were lost, more than seven million hectares were burnt, more than 3,000 home destroyed. In the most recent floods,...
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Issue #1956
Parliament calls for Royal Commission into Veteran Suicides
On 22nd March, the House of Representatives joined the Senate in passing a motion calling for the establishment of a Royal Commission into Veteran Suicides. The government has been reluctant to call for the establishment of a Royal Commission, taking the less drastic step of appointing a National Commissioner last year, but Scott Morrison eventually conceded that the government would support the motion.
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Issue #2015
Policy-induced violence
At least one child is killed by a parent every month; one woman is murdered every week by a partner or former partner; another hospitalised...
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