Search Results: addiction
-
AUSTRALIA
Advocacy from the likes of esteemed psychiatrist Professor Patrick
McGorry continues to highlight Australia's mental health system crisis. If Julia Gillard wants to lead on this issue, she will need to further the Coalition's $1.5 billion electoral commitment to mental health services.
READ MORE 
-
AUSTRALIA
Last week the world was shocked by CCTV footage of people walking past a
homeless man as he died of stab wounds on a New York pavement. People on the streets know violence, but cold indifference hurts more than targeted physical
attack.
READ MORE
-
AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 03 May 2010
19 Comments
Increasing the cost of cigarettes hurts the poor more than the rich. Kevin Rudd is acting with the callous efficiency of The Terminator when he
really needs to find a more equitable incentive to give up smoking.
READ MORE
-
AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 22 March 2010
9 Comments
The cost to human dignity makes compulsory income management counter-productive. It assumes that some welfare recipients are
unable to make rational decisions that take into account the
long-term consequences of their actions. The same might be said for
some governments.
READ MORE
-
ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 25 February 2010
1 Comment
Staff Sergeant
William James is responsible for disarming bombs laid by insurgents in the sandy streets of Baghdad. For him, the stress of the job is a veritable amphetamine, and
he's well and truly hooked.
READ MORE
-
AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 04 January 2010
4 Comments
A bill passed hastily by the NSW Parliament last week, specifically to force released paedophile Dennis Ferguson out of his home, effectively enshrined hate in legislation. Like drug addiction, paedophilia is a problem that requires community empathy, rather than ostracism. September 2009
READ MORE
-
ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 17 December 2009
1 Comment
Back in March, I strolled the streets of Fitzroy in Melbourne's inner
north with Warwick Thornton, trying to find a quiet spot for an
interview. Two months prior to the release of his feature debut,
Samson and Delilah, Thornton was quietly hopeful his film would be positively received.
READ MORE
-
ENVIRONMENT
- Drew Taylor
- 25 November 2009
14 Comments
The media has labelled them 'murder
simulators', linked them to depression and held them
accountable for childhood obesity. But there's another side to videogames that the mainstream media doesn't seem to want you to know about.
READ MORE
-
AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 28 September 2009
22 Comments
A bill passed hastily by the NSW Parliament last week, specifically to force released paedophile Dennis Ferguson out of his home, effectively enshrined hate in legislation. Like drug addiction, paedophilia is a problem that requires community empathy, rather than ostracism.
READ MORE
-
MEDIA
- Adam McKenna
- 27 July 2009
6 Comments
As we continue to become tools of our tools, we risk mistaking online social networking for social capital. Social networking is widespread because humans are social animals, and technology has changed the way we live, interact and seek to interact.
READ MORE
-
ARTS AND CULTURE
Samson and Delilah is an ode to Alice Springs and its extremes; an ethereal love story against a backdrop of addiction, violence and displacement. Racism is
not an explicit presence, but it is there,
a foul breath that muggies the air.
READ MORE
-
ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 19 February 2009
5 Comments
Idiopathic hyperhydrosis is an unpleasant affliction, and discussion of such does not constitute polite conversation. Kym's affliction is more debilitating: she's an addict, home from rehab to help celebrate her sister's nuptials.
READ MORE