How are the Children?
Every year the Child Development Council of South Australia provides an annual report to parliament detailing achievements and focus during…
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Far Away but Still Connected
While 72% of Australians live in major cities, 8.0% are in outer regional areas and 1.9% in remote or very…
Read moreValentine’s Day – It’s Complicated
14 February, Valentine’s Day, and we are surrounded by images of young, beautiful, predominantly white people looking lovingly into each…
Read moreWho is Teaching Our Boys to be Men?
Secret, seductive and insidious, our boys are listening to people we would never invite home. Where once we knew when…
Read moreFacing the Past
January 26th has passed and with it the debate about its name and significance. Is it Invasion Day, a day…
Read moreThe Non-Abused Sibling: The Consequence of Disclosure
The sibling relationship is often our longest enduring life bond, and it is well recognised that it has a significant…
Read moreNew Year and Another Way to Change
New Year, a clean slate and time to overburden ourselves with multiple New Year’s Resolutions. “I vow to spend more…
Read moreChristmas 2022
We had been on the road for a week. Others had done it in four days but that was only…
Read moreRobbed of More Than a Parent
Holidays, birthdays, and anniversaries are times where the absence of a child is powerfully experienced, and opportunities lost cannot be…
Read moreThe Dangers Of Practice
People may imagine that, compared to others who work with people in our community, a mental health practitioner’s life is…
Read moreInformed by Compassion
Humanity and mental health care have not always co-existed with distressing abuse perpetrated against already vulnerable people. These have ranged…
Read moreI Hate Them “Just Because”
Those who work with children and families recognise the scenario. A separated parent presents with the ‘problem’ that their child…
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