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‘People Need to Understand That They Are Stealing From Their Neighbours’: A Critical Media Analysis of the Representations and Resistance Throughout the Robodebt Scheme

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Robodebt scheme issued thousand‐dollar debts to an estimated half a million people who had received social security. The debts were largely inaccurate and illegal, with the aim of improving the federal government's budget. The 2023 Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme found that the stigmatising political and public language about ...
Ella Kruger, Phillipa Evans
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The Legislation for Providing Animal Access in Australian Residential Aged Care: It's Not a Zoo

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Providing meaningful animal contact to residential aged care facility (RACF) residents is problematic due to a lack of animal policies and National Guidelines. This paper examines how Australian Legislation could influence access to animal contact in RACFs and aims to answer the question, ‘Could current Legislation facilitate the development ...
Wendy Newton, Tania Signal, Jenni A. Judd   +2 more
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Mental health services in brief 2013 [PDF]

This paper provides an overview of data about the national response of the health and welfare system to the mental health care needs of Australians. Introduction Mental health services in Australia is an interactive website that provides national data ...

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Building Community Amidst the Institutional Whiteness of Graduate Study: Black Joy and Maroon Moves in an Academic Marronage

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reflects on the construction of a supportive community of Black Afro‐diasporic graduate students and their supervisors researching issues relating to race in the field of education in Australia. It draws on the concept of marronage—a term rooted in the fugitive act of becoming a maroon, where enslaved people enacted an escape in ...
Hellen Magoi, Casianus Gemoh, Denise Chapman, Edmund Hypolite, Simon Angok, Melanie Baak, Joel Windle   +6 more
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The Attitude and Knowledge of General Practitioners and Nurses Towards Severe Mental Illness in the Primary Care Facilities of the Seychelles Islands

BJPsych Open
Aims: People with severe mental illness have a reduced life expectancy of 15–20 years compared with the general population. The current literature shows this vulnerable population are 2 to 3 times increased risk of dying from cardiovascular disease, 2 to
Lisa Kissubi-Chang-Time, Athanasios Hassoulas, Anna-Lisa Labiche   +2 more
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A Behavioral Test of Contamination Fear in Excessive Health Anxiety [PDF]

, 2012
Hypochondriasis and health anxiety are characterized by preoccupation with the fear of currently having a serious physical illness. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders conceptualization of hypochondriasis does not include ...
Brady, Robert Edwin
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Understanding Inequality Within a Personalised System of Disability Support: Australian Children With Disabilities' Unmet Support Needs

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Disability support has shifted towards models of personalised care, which critics argue may contribute to increased inequalities. There is limited systematic evidence investigating inequalities in support among children with disabilities. To investigate inequalities in support, a survey of parents of children with disabilities aged 2–17 was ...
Martin O'Flaherty, Jessica Hill, Jennifer Smith‐Merry   +2 more
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Expectations and Reality: The Lived Experiences of Australians With Psychosocial Disability Within the NDIS

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While Australia's National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) was founded on principles of choice and control, for people with significant mental health challenges (what the NDIS calls ‘psychosocial disability’) these ideals often remain elusive. Support systems continue to be fractured and in the context of ongoing policy reforms, it is vital
Joel Hollier, Jennifer Smith‐Merry
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Cost-Effectiveness of the Interventions for Severe Mental Illness (SMI) in Low and Middle-Income Countries (LAMICs): A Systematic Review

BJPsych Open
Aims: Despite the high prevalence of mental illnesses, particularly Severe Mental Illness, there is limited literature on the cost-effectiveness of available interventions in low- and middle-income countries.
Abdul Latif, Martyn Lewis, Ghasem Yadegarfar, Zala Khan, Saeed Farooq   +4 more
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The Clinical Spectrum and Neurodevelopmental Pathogenesis of KPTN‐Related Disorder in a Mouse Model

Annals of Neurology, EarlyView.
Objective Pathogenic variants in Kaptin (KPTN) cause KPTN‐related disorder (KRD). KPTN modulates mTOR signaling activation within the KICSTOR complex in response to cellular amino acid levels. We define the clinical spectrum and investigate the developmental pathogenesis of KRD.
Lettie E. Rawlins, Philip H. Iffland II, John Page, Rebecca Z. Flessner, Soad M. Elziny, Irina Sbornova, Janice K. Babus, Sophie R. Bruckmeier, Ria Parikh, Merel Verhoeven, James Fasham, Joseph S. Leslie, Richard Caswell, Nishanka Ubeyratna, Olivia Wenger, Ethan M. Scott, John Schreiber, Steffen Syrbe, Annick Klabunde‐Cherwon, Martina Owens, Andrew H. Crosby, Emma L. Baple, Peter B. Crino, the KPTN Consortium, Andrea Seeley, Heather Rocha, Sabine Rudnick, Ulrich Schaatz, Tobias Haack, Eva Schwaibold, Caleb Bupp, Klaas Wierenga, John Schreiber, Thorkild Terkelsen, Sarina Kant, J. C. Herkert, Michael Wright, Boris Keren, Solveig Heide, Pamela Jackson, Pradeep Vasudevan, Helen Stewart, Perrine Charles, Andreas Hahn, Saskia Biskup, Inger‐Lise Mero, Martin Heier, Conny van Ravenswaaij‐Arts, Esther Nibbeling, Stephanie Efthymiou, Erum Afzal, Ian Ellis, Raza Maroofian, Almundher Al‐Maawali, David Coman, Anthony Morosini, Sajjad Biglari, Pooneh Nikuei, Saadet Mercimek‐Andrews, Prab Prabhakar, Raymond Louie, Kameryn Butler, Olivia Wenger, Ethan M. Scott, Andrea Seeley, Heather Rocha, Amber Begtrup, Sabine Rudnik, Ulrich Schatz, Tobias Haack, Eva Schwaibold, Caleb Bupp, Klaas Wierenga, John Schreiber, Thorkild Terkelsen, Sarina Kant, J. C. Herkert, Michael Wright, Boris Keren, Solveig Heide, Pamela Jackson, Pradeep Vasudevan, Helen Stewart, Perrine Charles, Andreas Hahn, Saskia Biskup, Inger‐Lise Mero, Martin Heier, Marijn Stokman, Conny van Ravenswaaij‐Arts, Esther Nibbeling, Stephanie Efthymiou, Erum Afzal, Kristina Zhelcheska, Henry Houlden, Ian Ellis, Reza Maroofian, Gholamreza Shariati, Hamid Galehdari, Almundher Al‐Maawali, Adila Al‐Kindi, Andrew Y. Shuen, Victoria Siu, Annick Klabunde‐Cherwon, Steffen Syrbe   +104 more
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