Capitalism Is Failing Tairāwhiti Youth
One in three young people in Gisborne are distressed, and no amount of resilience talk can hide the deeper failure: poverty, alienation and capitalism.
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News Fatigue: Stay Informed Without Burnout
You don’t need to drown in headlines to stay informed. News fatigue is real, and there’s a smarter way to engage with the world.
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Police Mental Health Withdrawal Plan In Crisis
Police have hit pause on a dangerous mental health withdrawal plan after workers warned patients and frontline staff were being put at risk.
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Suicide rates for prisoners should shame us, it won’t, but it should
Former prisoners are dying after release — and the system designed to rehabilitate them appears to look away.
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Trans Murder in Canada isn’t really helping with the inclusive branding is it?
After the Tumbler Ridge school shooting, the usual culture-war blame game erupted. Here’s what the data says — and what actually matters now.
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Dave Macpherson: Mental Health is still holding its breath
While the Government has quite rightly budgeted a large chunk of cash to address a myriad of mental health issues, it has unfortunately failed to drive through systemic and leadership change – leaving the same inmates in charge of the same asylum (to use a perhaps non-PC turn of phrase).
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Dave Macpherson: Government’s $100M rebuild of acute mental health facility the last part of the answer, not the first
Last week the Government announced, with much fanfare, the rebuild of Waikato DHB’s notorious Henry Bennett Centre, a place that was quite literally the death of our son Nicky, and of several other acutely ill patients.
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Dave Macpherson: End of dispute between Nicky Stevens’ family and Waikato DHB means a new phase of the mental health work starts
Most readers will be aware that my family’s long-running (four and a half years long) ‘dispute’ with Waikato DHB is now over.
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Dave Macpherson: Waikato DHB changes course and agrees to mediation with Nicky Stevens’ family
After refusing to hold further discussions with Nicky Stevens’ whanau six months ago, the Waikato DHB – under the new leadership of Commissioner Karen Poutasi – has changed tack and agreed to participate in mediation talks with his family.
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Dave Macpherson: ‘Great to see Mental Health treated as the No 1 Priority’
The parents of Nicky Stevens, who died in 2015 while in the ‘care’ of Waikato DHB’s acute mental health facility, have welcomed the focus of the 2019 Budget on Mental Health.
