[In my best Godfather impression]: You come to me on the day my daughter is to be married and you ask me to contribute to the major redesign of a bi-national specialist medical curriculum - for no money.

I’m not too big to admit that I literally cried about Antony Green leaving because I think he is great but also I 👏 don’t 👏 like 👏 change.

The lesser of two evils now stands alone, greater than the sum of their parts. This is a Labor majority. There is no ‘But Dutton Button’. No distractions. No deflections. No excuses. Nowhere to hide a lie.

Miss Polly had a dolly who was sick sick sick
So she called for the doctor to come quick quick quick
He looked at the dolly laying in her bed
And he told her it was all in her head

It is no surprise that headspace (an organisation with ties to the genocidal Zionist regime) promptly comply with pressure to remove LGBTIQA+ affirming visuals when visited by a right-wing leader.

We could watch MAFS to ‘learn about DV’ OR we could engage with the work of survivors, advocates, organisations and frontline services who have a heap of educational material that doesn’t rely on putting women into new abusive situations

My column this week is about how fucking BAD the body image/fatphobic vibes are at the moment and how other people need to engage before it destroys us all. I don’t ever insist you read my stuff but I’d love you to read this one www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

NSW psychiatrists are now correcting headlines because apparently it isn’t a “pay dispute’ which is a real hot take considering it is by definition a pay dispute and they’ve only started making that correction since their strategy landed like a lead balloon with the people they claim matter most.

We spoke to @australia.theguardian.com about the dangers of the new antisemitism definition and its chilling on academic speech about Palestine. By labelling Palestinian political expressions as antisemitic, it will institutionalise anti-Palestinian racism.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

A powerful call to make prevention of war a public health priority
www.croakey.org/a-powerful-c...
By Dr Safiyyah Abbas, a paediatric rehabilitation physician with an interest in public and global health.

If only there were proposals being made for community based peer led models and holistic care. Psychiatry has consistently consolidated the power of biomedical models and stunted the development of alternate frameworks. Of course wait lists are going to be long if you don’t share the load.

Has anyone else in Aus become SO ‘scam aware’ that they simply trust no one? Just me? Increasingly rigorous identity verification AND scam scrutiny make me something something

There has been some popular misinformation circulating on social media today about preferential voting in Australian Federal elections. I find this video helpful.

"My disabled life is not glamorous, nor is it particularly beautiful. This life is unbearably lonely, often painful, and filled with fear of the unknown about the future. But it deserves to be witnessed."

– Rachel Litchman on poverty and chronic illness

www.disabilitydebrief.org/debrief/forg...

I'm moved by the response to my article in
@croakeynews.bsky.social It is about the need for inclusion of Mad and survivor perspectives in public debate of mental health systems. I'd love for it to enter clinical conversations.
@ranzcp.bsky.social @racgp.bsky.social @theracp.bsky.social

Thank you Grace for writing this!

Aussies, sign this petition before tonight. We shouldn't be forced to depend on our partners if we are on the disability support pension, it puts us at great risk of abuse and heightens our vulnerability.

I am proud to have written this story, published in @croakeynews.bsky.social today. I believe it is time for the world to feel the stories of psychiatric survivors. Thank you, Fay Jackson. #NotAllPsychiatrists

#NSWPsychiatryCrisis #DisabilityRights #MadStudies #PublicHealth