December 2021 – Page 2

Mental health, hope and recovery

Mental health conditions are extremely common in the community and have a major impact on people’s day-to-day lives, as anyone who has been through the experience will tell you. For many people one of the hardest things is the uncertainty about recovery, and indeed, it is often a person’s very sense of hope that is diminished. For people experiencing mental distress there often is a powerful sense of hopelessness combined with a sense of despair that they will never recover

By Writing|2021-12-16T12:55:32+11:00December 16th, 2021|Health|Comments Off

Genomics in general practice

In recent decades, there has been an extraordinary technological revolution underway in which the very building blocks of life, our genetic codes, are increasingly well understood and even manipulated by rapidly advancing scientific techniques. Meanwhile, the humble local general practitioner (GP) is still the backbone of most health systems around the world, a trusted source of advice and health care in the community, and is likely to play a growing role in communicating the significance of new genetic technologies

By Writing|2022-03-01T12:40:07+11:00December 16th, 2021|Health, Science & Technology|Comments Off

What’s up Doc? The benefits of a good GP

Throughout history people have relied on some form of doctor or other healer to help them and their families during times of illness, and to provide comfort and cures for various forms of sickness. Even with all our modern technology, powerful medications and access to vast quantities of health information on the Internet, people still encounter the daily health problems of living

By Writing|2022-03-01T12:40:45+11:00December 16th, 2021|Health|Comments Off

Artificial intelligence and mental health

When we began to reflect on the role of artificial intelligence (AI) for mental health care, immediately there were a whole range of concerns that leapt out at us. How on earth could a non-living digital device be of value to any human being experiencing mental health issues? Isn’t another human being absolutely essential to provide the compassion and understanding of fellow human beings’ emotions, thoughts and feelings, and intimate troubles of life

By Writing|2022-03-01T12:30:21+11:00December 16th, 2021|Health, Science & Technology|Comments Off

My Grandfather, Ron Castan

A thirty-seat plane sat on the runway, its propellers spinning hypnotically in the darkness. The engine roared, a deafening thunder that threatened to blow my six-year-old body away. As my grandfather and I sat in the tiny gate lounge, fluorescent lights flickering above, I held his hand tighter, excited yet intimidated by the adventure we were about to embark on

By Writing|2022-01-22T14:51:47+11:00December 16th, 2021|Arts, Culture & Society|Comments Off

Maintaining harmony in families with later life decisions

My interest in older people began quite early in my own life for three reasons. The first because my mother became seriously ill in her late fifties and I already had to learn to start to understand the role of being a carer — especially the role of carer of a parent

By Writing|2022-01-13T12:03:30+11:00December 16th, 2021|Arts, Culture & Society, Health|Comments Off

Adequate Support for People with a Disability

Kenny and thousands of other people with disabilities in Australia fall through a huge gap in our social services network, because their injury or disability is non-compensable. Because of this, individuals with a disability struggle below the poverty line

By Writing|2022-01-28T10:43:46+11:00December 16th, 2021|Governance, Health|Comments Off

Digital and COVID-19 reshaping leadership attributes, 2022 and beyond

Leadership capabilities for digital and non-digital businesses are converging. As a result, there is considerable commonality around the core capabilities that organisations are seeking in their executives and managers. In COVID times, the criticality of these attributes is further reinforced due to the demands of leading in uncertain times and ongoing shifts in expectations.

By Writing|2022-01-31T11:51:20+11:00December 16th, 2021|Arts, Culture & Society|Comments Off

Control and Eradication of Malaria: Past, Present and Future

To the great surprise of many well-informed people in developed countries, malaria remains a major problem in the world today. Although figures may not be very reliable, it was estimated that in 2008 one fifth of the world’s population was at risk of malaria, leading to 240 million episodes and some 850,000 deaths, the majority occurring in Africa

By Writing|2022-01-26T18:03:49+11:00December 16th, 2021|Health|Comments Off

Place of a Nation? Canberra’s Central National Area in its Second Century

In its earliest imaginings by politicians and bureaucrats, Canberra was imagined as a city — and a national capital — in a landscape. It was pictured using the graphic conventions of the time, as a place of remarkable formal harmony, and as a place to unify the perceived dichotomies in Australia between ‘the bush’ and the city, the uninhabitable and the habitable

By Writing|2022-02-03T11:21:10+11:00December 14th, 2021|Arts, Culture & Society, Environment & Energy|Comments Off