Are you aged between 12 and 25 and feeling creative? headspace Elsternwick is very pleased to announce its second art competition! Entry is free and open to all young Melbourne artists, with no requirement that they access headspace Elsternwick’s health services. Just about any type of artwork can be entered, including drawings, paintings, photography, and…
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Over the next month, Australians will be called to action to engage in mental health issues, starting off with World Suicide Prevention Day and R OK Day, and finishing with Mental Health Week in October. Today (September 10th) is World Suicide Prevention Day. Why is this important, you may ask? You might not know anyone…
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Tasmania’s Catholic Archbishop Adrian Doyle draws comparisons between the psychological impact of abortion and sexual abuse The Most Reverend Doyle has given evidence at an Upper House inquiry into laws which would remove abortion from the criminal code and allow women to terminate their pregnancies at up to 16 weeks on the advice of doctors….
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UNICEF has reported that more than 125 million girls and women alive today have undergone female genital mutilation, and 30 million more are at risk in the next decade. Female genital mutilation (FGM) refers to any procedure that intentionally changes or injures female genitalia for non-medical reasons. It has no health benefits, and can cause…
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Are you creative, aged between 12 and 25, and interested in youth mental health? From the 1st of July to the 28th of September, headspace Elsternwick is running its very first art competition, organised by its Youth Advisory Committee, a group of young people interested in creating community connections and raising awareness of mental health…
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Two sisters and their mother have been shot dead in Pakistan, after the girls appeared in a video which showed them dancing in the rain. The sisters, aged fifteen and sixteen, have been named in local media as Noor Basra and Noor Sheza, the daughters of a retired police officer. According to Dawn, five masked…
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On the 16th of June, the 15-year-old daughter of Boing Boing creators Mark Frauenfelder and Carla Sinclair was travelling with a group of high school students on college tour when a TSA officer at LAX started glaring at her. In text messages to her parents, she said that the officer began mumbling at her, and…
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In September 2010, Abby Holt began working for Westpac as implementation manager. Within weeks, she was being subjected to bullying by team leader Emily Lowson. Holt, who weighed about 53 kilograms at the time of her employment, claims that Lowson referred to her as a ‘Breatharian,’ because she rarely ate at work. Lowson also…
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Every time the current Doctor retires his multicoloured scarf or fez, the Doctor Who fandom erupts in excited debate as to who the next Doctor will be. When David Tennant left the role in 2010, rumours spread that the Eleventh Doctor would be Chiwetel Ejiofor, previously seen in Love Actually and Kinky Boots; however, Matt…
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A decade ago, three young Cleveland women went missing. In 2002, 20-year-old Michele Knight disappeared. In 2003, 16-year-old Amanda Berry called her sister to let her know that she was getting a ride home from work. She never made it home, and the day after her disappearance, the Berry family faced her 17th birthday without…
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Mary Thom, feminist and former editor of Ms. magazine, died in a motorcycle accident on April 26. She was 68 years old. Ms. magazine began in 1971, as a once-off insert in New York Magazine. At the time, most women’s magazines gave advice regarding marriage, children, or beauty. Though Ms. was heavily derided at the…
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Last Friday, the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee advised that Mifepristone (better known as RU486 or the ‘abortion pill’), and Misoprostol, taken in conjunction with RU486, be covered by a scheme which provides a government subsidy. RU486 is a drug allowing the medical termination of pregnancies up to 49 days. It was first developed by…
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The Tour of Flanders is a famous road cycling race held in Belgium every spring, and is an important race in the European professional calendar. But the most recent Tour of Flanders is perhaps most well-known among the public for an incident that occurred during the celebration of winner Fabian Cancellara. As Cancellara was being…
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Last night I was informed that Margaret Thatcher, the ‘Iron Lady,’ had died of a stroke, aged 87. I rushed to the Internet, the fountain of all knowledge, to make sure it wasn’t just a hoax – and found that Google was inundated with articles about the remarkable woman who was Prime Minister of the…
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