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Mental health group warns against proposed workers’ compensation reform
May 15, 2025
Australians for Mental Health has expressed major concerns over proposed changes to workers’ compensation for psychological injury, as part of its submission into a NSW parliamentary inquiry. Australians for Mental Health has warned any...
Read More ShareAppoint a Minister for Mental Health & Wellbeing, mental health group urges Albanese
May 07, 2025
Placing mental health and wellbeing at the centre of all decision-making is the key to tackling the mental health crisis in Australia, according to Australians for Mental Health (AFMH), a national grassroots campaign group...
Read More ShareAustralians for Mental Health welcomes Labor’s promise to help new parents
April 17, 2025
Australians for Mental Health has endorsed Labor’s election commitment to provide free mental health support to parents before and after their child’s birth. The $16.7 million promised would go towards opening eight new peri-natal...
Read More ShareAustralians for Mental Health welcomes Labor’s major funding pledge for mental health
April 08, 2025
Australians for Mental Health has expressed its support for a major $1 billion funding commitment from the Australian Labor Party for mental health. The money would include funding for Medicare mental health centres,...
Read More ShareAustralians for Mental Health welcomes free virtual counselling initiative
March 20, 2025
Australians for Mental Health has welcomed the Albanese Government’s announcement to make online and over-the-phone counselling free for all Australians. The free digital mental health support service is set to be available under...
Read More ShareWatering down protections no solution to workplace mental health crisis
March 18, 2025
Australians for Mental Health is expressing its dismay over a planned watering down of workers compensation rights, amid a rise in workplace psychological injuries. The NSW government has released details about the alarming...
Read More ShareBe My Valentine?
February 18, 2025
By Chris Gambian Whether your heart is red, blue, green, teal or anything in between, there are two men vying to be our Prime Minister after the election this year. And this Valentine's Day...
Read More ShareThe Story of Us
February 18, 2025
By Chris Gambian My least favourite saying of recent years is “That sounds like a you problem” I guess it is a product of the times in which we live: we’ve never been more disconnected from...
Read More ShareDespite the odds, hope.
January 28, 2025
By Chris Gambian Is it too late to wish you a happy new year? I’m writing this on a day in Sydney where temperatures are set to rise to 42 degrees. It’s already hot,...
Read More ShareEffective action to reduce loneliness could save billions of dollars and countless lives
November 14, 2024
Australians for Mental Health has called for the NSW government to implement a whole of system, whole of government approach to combat loneliness ahead of a parliamentary inquiry on Friday.
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