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'Even if I get to the top of the waiting list, I can't afford mental health care'
Results from the SANE Bridging the Gaps Survey shows Federal Government forum must listen to people who live with complex mental illness.
Jonathan Shar
Jan 30, 20233 min read
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Newborn screening for spinal muscular atrophy improves chances of walking and quality of life: study
Testing in the newborn period is more effective than conventional clinical diagnosis pathways for improving health outcomes in infants wit
Jonathan Shar
Jan 19, 20234 min read
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Can a universal basic income help address homelessness?
An alternative approach to welfare could replace policies that are failing to address homelessness.
UNSW
Nov 18, 20224 min read
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Loneliness - a symptom or a cause of mental ill-health
Lived Experience Australia (LEA) has recently undertaken a study to understand the experience of loneliness for those affected by mental...
Jonathan Shar
Nov 18, 20222 min read
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One-Stop Mental Health Hubs For Families A Step Closer
Victorian families will soon have access to a one-stop shop for mental health care and health and wellbeing support for the whole family –
Jonathan Shar
Jul 13, 20222 min read
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Hospitals only note a person’s intellectual disability 20% of the time
Professor, Medicine and Health, UNSW People with intellectual disability only have their disability noted by hospital staff in one in every
Julian N. Trollor
May 4, 20220 min read
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Emyria adds second clinic in Perth ahead of EMD-003 registration trials
Emyria has added a second suite of Emerald Clinics consulting rooms in Perth on the back of continued appointment growth nationally
Jonathan Shar
Apr 8, 20222 min read
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Peak Disability Org Says Labor’s Budget Reply Needs More Detail
Australia’s peak disability rights and advocacy organisation has welcomed some of the provisions in Labor’s reply to the 2022-23 Federal Bu
People with Disability Australia
Mar 31, 20222 min read
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Stroke recovery technology that re-launches Life
Imagine a cup. Now reach for it. But you can’t. Not yet. You’ve had a stroke and your brain needs to relearn how to do things you used to d
Jonathan Shar
Mar 31, 20222 min read
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Cerebral Palsy Alliance Research Foundation partners with Hearts & Minds Investments deliver grants
A team of Australian researchers and health professionals are launching two world-first projects to prevent disability and death in...
Jonathan Shar
Feb 24, 20224 min read
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Disability RATs overdue, surge workforce, retention pay urgently needed: CPSU NSW
Rapid antigen tests for disability workers in NSW’s group homes are welcome but overdue, with the Community and Public Service Union of NSW
Jonathan Shar
Feb 7, 20222 min read
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Disability Sector Slams National Cabinet's Omicron Response
Australia’s peak disability representative organisations have written to National Cabinet to detail the unacceptable risks to the lives...
People with Disability Australia
Jan 25, 20222 min read
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Omicron Staffing Crunch Putting Lives Of People With Disability At Risk
Disability advocates say the lives and health of people with disability are at risk because of the severe strain that the Omicron variant of
People with Disability Australia
Jan 13, 20223 min read
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‘People Will Die;’ People With Disability Lead Push For Free Rapid COVID Tests
Peak advocacy organisation People with Disability Australia (PWDA) has called for the nation’s governments to deliver free rapid antigen te
People with Disability Australia
Jan 4, 20222 min read
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Dementia Australia welcomes the launch of the first National Memory and Cognition Clinic Guidelines
Dementia peak body congratulates researchers from the Australian Dementia Network (ADNeT) on the release of the first Memory and Cognition
Jonathan Shar
Dec 21, 20212 min read
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Emyria announce positive animal study data received for Emyria's novel: ultra-pure CBD capsule
Emyria has received positive preliminary results from a pre-clinical head-to-head animal study comparison of Emyria’s proprietary,...
Jonathan Shar
Dec 21, 20212 min read
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Royal Commission final report on COVID-19 vaccine roll-out for people with disability tabled
The Final Commissioners’ Report of Public hearing 12: The experiences of people with disability, in the context of the Australian...
Jonathan Shar
Oct 29, 20212 min read
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With COVID Set To Run Free In NSW, Many People With Disability Face A Future Of Fear
Disability advocates hold grave concerns that sluggish efforts to vaccinate people with disabilities in NSW will mean many disabled people
Jonathan Shar
Oct 11, 20213 min read
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COVID-19 vaccine strategy and roll-out for people with disability ‘seriously deficient’ draft report
The Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability has today released the draft Commissioners’
Jonathan Shar
Sep 27, 20213 min read
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5m Australians hit by suicide during COVID-19
One in four Australians report knowing someone who died by suicide during the past 12 months of the pandemic – the equivalent of 5 million p
Jonathan Shar
Sep 8, 20213 min read
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