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Unease and disease
OVER THE COURSE of eight years I researched and wrote a book, Bedlam at Botany Bay, about colonial madness...
Decolonising psychology
IN NOVEMBER 2020, the long-awaited Productivity Commission Inquiry Report into Mental Health in Australia was released publicly. Among its...
The sad stats
IN 2018 I was hired to work as Victoria’s first dedicated LGBTIQ outreach lawyer, to be based at a...
Our once and future home
IT’S A HOT Australian twilight, some years ago now, and I’m among a couple of hundred people who have...
Delusions of sanity
ACCORDING TO THE Parable of the Poisoned Well, there once lived a king who ruled over a great city....
Going sane
ON THE DAY of The Correspondent’s launch in September 2019, a reader who identified as manic-psychotic sent me an...
The privatisation of anxiety
AT THE LAST moment, I had stuffed K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher into my carry-on case....
Intensifier
It’s strange that a dog barking at the beach becomes a cause for concern. Those nearby look around for...
The Closure Company
THEIR SIGNS USED a distinctive shade of blue. It was a colour they’d patented, like Tiffany Blue, though the...
The chemical question
It's just that time of the month. It’s only the baby blues. It’s the change, it’ll pass. It’s just your hormones. Most women have experienced a dismissal like this at some stage in their lives, whether for a genuine mental health issue or for something as minor as offering a differing opinion. But the trivialising of issues deemed ‘hormonal’, and the dismissal of associated mood disorders, can have fatal consequences.
The bee box
You made this; working with wood and mortar to build nesting sites for native bees – the leafcutter, the resin, the blue-banded. For some...
A woman alone
Dedicated to Susan-Gaye Anderson THERE’S NO POINT making it up. An eminent Australian historian, a woman, once said of an...
