The headmaster of Shore School in Sydney has been criticised over a newsletter he wrote describing Lilie James's accused murderer as an "absolute delight".

Every major medical, health and community welfare organisation in Australia has opposed the initiative and said there are better ways.

Youth mental health organisation Orygen has won a $33m research grant aimed at predicting, treating and ultimately preventing the progression of psychotic illnesses such as schizophrenia in at-risk...

Liberal arts graduates are taught to question power and democracy. It's tempting to see this move as a step towards cultivating compliant, "quiet Australians" instead.

The top-down nature of our COVID briefings, with their focus on individual accountability, misses the mark for many Australians, whose cultural traditions place greater weight on collective wellbeing...

Brain and Mind Centre Co-Director, Professor Ian Hickie AM, has been named a dual winner of the 2021 Australian Mental Health Prize.

The federal shadow assistant treasurer reflects on his speech to Parliament amid the religious discrimination debate. “The fears I hold for Paddy are exactly the same as for the parents of a Muslim...

Australia’s researchers have warned the sector cannot absorb thousands of job losses from the nation’s top universities, with leading medical research institutes bracing for a more than 30 per cent...

Early intervention in physical health is key to closing a 20-year life expectancy gap for people with mental illness, experts say.

Misinformation about what depression is and how to treat it inspired global mental health expert Ian Hickie to bust myths and urge Australians not to navigate the health system alone.

Previous economic crises inform us of the dire mental health impacts of the pandemic unless we take the same kind of decisive actions that have succeeded against the coronavirus itself.

Just one month ago a media report unveiled a massive rise in young people reporting to emergency departments, but reaction was muted.

While politicians and government officials struggle to articulate clear positions in a rapidly changing world, some health commentators have come

Others asked if they are ‘overthinking things’ or told their issues could be hormonal, charity says

One of Australia's flagship mental health programs is failing people with complex mental illness, researchers say.

Justice cannot be colour-blind, but we are not America and our streets, thankfully, are not battlegrounds.

Medicare’s recent warning is a slap in the face for those of us trying to provide quality, whole-person care

Epidemiological studies indicate that labor underutilization and suicide are associated, yet it remains unclear whether this association is causal. We applied convergent cross mapping to test for...

Despite government promises to increase funding during the pandemic, Australian experts are identifying a mental health emergency for young people.

Across Australia psychologists are reporting waiting lists for new patients that are many months long. Here are the stories of those left waiting for care.

Psychiatrist Ian Hickie said more clinical psychologist trainees could be used to meet demand in rural and regional Australia.

Matt Berriman resigned from the peak body, citing frustration with the federal government. It will intensify scrutiny on Labor’s dedication to mental health.

At the time Australia needs it most, there is a crisis in the workforce of psychologists trained to assess and treat brain and mental health conditions.

Previous economic crises inform us of the dire mental health impacts of the pandemic unless we take the same kind of decisive actions that have succeeded against the coronavirus itself.

Three-quarters of those aged 18 to 24 say their mental health has been impacted.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has allocated $48 million to boost mental health research, services and awareness in an effort to get ahead of a forecast spike in suicides due to coronavirus.

Teachers are being swamped with cries for help from suicidal students, with more than two suicide attempts a week on school grounds each term.

For all the steps we’ve taken to talk openly and reduce stigma, mental illness is still a bloody awful time

Much of Australia’s mental ill-health could be avoided if rather than focus on the system, we fix societal factors that lead to distress

As the powerful feather their own nests, for many daily life is a horror story of precarity and anxiety

The federal government announces an extra $2.3 billion will be put towards mental health treatment and suicide prevention in tonight's budget, with some of the funds going towards creating online...

The magnitude of risk of onset of major mental health problems and the availability of effective, low-cost, individual and population-based interventions for sleep-wake disturbances, suggest that it...

The scale of Australians' demand for mental health care is still being understood - but the current framework...

Mentally ill people are much more likely to be the victims of violence than the perpetrators, but we need better alert systems for the rare dangerous cases.

The prime minister has used his New Year’s Eve message to try to pretend this disaster is not different