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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. ...
Tuesday 9 February 2010 -
A Melbourne cafe owner and three of his former staff have been fined for bullying Brodie Panlock, who subsequently committed suicide....
Monday 8 February 2010 -
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....
Thursday 27 August 2009
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Estelle Dragun tells Geoff Hutchison about her experience at the ongoing inquest into her newsreader daughter Charmaine's death....
Wednesday 10 March 2010 -
An inquest into the death of television newsreader Charmaine Dragun has opened to try and improve understanding of mental illness....
Monday 8 March 2010 -
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....
Wednesday 3 March 2010 -
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....
Friday 26 February 2010 -
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....
Thursday 18 February 2010

