I am regularly interviewed in the media about mental health issues. I can speak as an experienced advocate, as someone who has held paid roles to advise the sector and government, and from my own personal lived experience.
Press
‘It’s as though you’re some kind of rabid animal’: Seclusion in mental health units on the rise
The Age, Apr 2019
I truly wish I never went to a mental health service
The Age, Oct 2018
When mental health treatment becomes a violation
InDaily, Aug 2018
Stuck in the ED for days, hospitals are harming mental health patients
The Sydney Morning Herald, Feb 201
Mental health patients strapped, held down in Australian public hospitals, report reveals
ABC News, May 2017
Radio
ECT patients must give consent Vic court rules
PM, ABC Radio National, Nov 2018
Trauma, memory and mental health
All in the Mind, ABC Radio National, Mar 201
Invisible intruders – the voices in my head
All in the Mind, ABC Radio National, Dec 2013
Video & TV interviews
Latest Edition of Psychiatric ‘Bible’ Lateline, ABC TV, May 2013
