SOCIETY: Mental illness
SOCIETY
Comment: Ten Years After Tampa
Peter Mares
John Howard’s stand on the Tampa is generally seen in retrospect as a political masterstroke that stopped the boats and helped him to...
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POLITICS
Minds at Risk: Choosing the Right Path for Adolescent Mental Health
Lisa Pryor
This included $419.7 million over five years for the expansion of two services for young people championed by Melbourne psychiatrist...
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SOCIETY
Through the Cracks: Suresh Nair
Tanveer Ahmed
Lonergan, who had appointed Nair three years earlier, had only a vague idea that he might suffer from a mental illness. Nair was also...
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Hit Me: The thin veneer of his characters' self-command makes him exciting to watch. Russell Crowe and the art of violence.
Helen Garner
One morning I walked into the kitchen and found my son-in-law standing frozen in front of the TV. On the screen a bloke in a blue singlet...
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The Unknown Story of Cornelia Rau: Often she cried. Sometimes she screamed. She begun at Baxter in what was called Blue Compound. She was quickly sent to Red One
Robert Manne
Cornelia was the younger daughter of Edgar and Veronika, a solid middle-class German couple from the Baltic city of Hamburg. Edgar Rau...
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A Dandy Comes a Cropper: It's a very Australian thing to glorfy the rich, famous and dead. And yet Rene Rivkin was never really one of us, was he?
Craig Sherborne
Rivkin Unauthorised? What a redundant title. Rivkin’s dead, and hardly in a position to authorise anything. Andrew Main’s book, one of the...
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