This week in the lead up to Valentine’s Day, an occasion mainly associated with heterosexual romantic ideals, popular Australian comic Magda Szubanski publicly announced that she is gay. She called for greater respect towards homosexuals and highlighted the struggles many … Continue reading →

Johnathan Link is an accredited Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and Youth Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) Instructor. Johnathan works for the Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) in QLD. As you can see from the images in this post, Johnathan … Continue reading →

For many people, the words ‘Facebooking’ or ‘Tweeting’ are associated with people sharing photos of what they did on the weekend or the type of breakfast cereal eaten this morning. For others, it’s something they feel they ‘ought’ to be … Continue reading →

Christmas and New Year’s mean different things to different people. For some, Christmas is a religious holiday. For others it’s the social season. For a lot of us, at the very least, it means getting together with family or friends … Continue reading →

teen Mental Health First Aid coordinator Dr Laura Hart comments on yesterday’s Coronial Inquest finding and its implications for mental health first aid training. The findings of the Coronial Inquest into the police shooting of Melbourne teenager Tyler Cassidy were … Continue reading →