The Australian of the Year, youth mental health professor Patrick McGorry, has gone against conventional wisdom and called for a softening of the media guidelines for reporting suicide. He says responsible discussion of the issue can help public understanding of suicide and how to prevent it. ...

A Melbourne cafe owner and three of his former staff have been fined for bullying Brodie Panlock, who subsequently committed suicide....

Catherine Deveny, comedian, Age columnist and professional muckraker, joined Jon Faine as co-host, and their guests were author Barry Dickens, ex-football player Nathan Thompson, and Dr Nicole Highett....

Estelle Dragun tells Geoff Hutchison about her experience at the ongoing inquest into her newsreader daughter Charmaine's death....

An inquest into the death of television newsreader Charmaine Dragun has opened to try and improve understanding of mental illness....

Independent Senator Nick Xenophon has appeared at a reopened coronial inquest into the suicide of a gambling addict who worked at Adelaide's SkyCity Casino....

In Britain the Director of Public Prosecutions has released a new framework on how assisted suicide cases should be tried. It follows a judgement in the House of Lords last year that the law on assisted dying isn't as clear as it should be....

The journalist at the centre of a renewed debate in Britain on euthanasia has been arrested on suspicion of murder. Ray Gosling had used a documentary to admit he killed a former lover dying from AIDS by smothering him with a pillow in hospital....