If you’ve needed to organise an appointment with a counsellor or psychologist then you know how difficult it can be, what with long wait lists and nationwide shortages of psychologists and psychiatrists. Chances are if you live in a remote area, you’ll be even less likely to get the help you need without delays. Suicide prevention and mental health advocate Glenn Cotter has lived experience with mental health and is a peer worker. He said a lack of knowledge of services contributes to delays in people seeking help. “The issue is that there are still so many people who avoid reaching…
Author: Amandine Ahrens
Animal Welfare advocates believe rental shortages in the Illawarra are contributing to the steady increase in cats being put up for adoption in animal rescue organisations. Animal Welfare League Illawarra employee Bethany Clare said she’s fostered 15 cats in the five months since she began working with the organisation. “When I first started it was the spring kitten season because a lot of female cats had gone on heat, so it was back-to-back kittens,” she said. During the last financial year, RSPCA Australia noted that the number of cats surrendered or rescued by the organisation was the highest of all…
On the pages of a small booklet are fragments of an ancient language, pieced together over almost four decades by Elders of Indigenous communities spread along the Yuin nation. It’s an emotional moment as the next generation take their seat across from elders at a shared yarning table. As the small community group looks down at the sentences that forms before them, they see their language. A language that was once derided, devalued and stomped out, almost to the point of extinction. In these pages it flickers back to life. A dictionary of sorts, the booklet with all its words,…
Flags are being flown at half mast as the University of Wollongong stands in solidarity with the Indigenous community, students are ditching their cars for a more environmentally friendly commute to UOW and excitement is at an all time high as Wollongong soccer players celebrate their well deserved victory at the National Youth Girls Championships. Report team: Meg Claridge, Daniel Starr, Ilarose Samia, Tamara Stewart, Isaiah Vidler and Amandine Ahrens.