Rising numbers of families living under financial stress to receive public education on money management. Community service provider Wesley Mission has partnered with St George Bank to launch a financial literacy program to support struggling families in NSW to manage ...

The government and its financial regulator have failed people in distress who need early access to their superannuation funds, the opposition said. Regional Development spokesman Bob Baldwin told parliament that changing responsibility for deciding on compassionate early release of super ...

Mental health profession should say sorry to indigenous Australians Since colonial settlement indigenous Australians have been the victims of misdiagnosis and disproportionate incarceration in mental health institutions. Alan Rosen tells Linda Belardi why an official apology to indigenous Australians is ...

Nurses raise the issue of wages and quality training in aged care with federal minister for ageing during recent public forum, reports Darragh O Keeffe and Natasha Egan. Federal Minister for Ageing Mark Butler has said the government may respond ...

The Australian College of Mental Health nurses has renewed its call for the government to dump its policy of mandatory detention, amid concerns of a worsening health crisis in the system. College CEO, Kim Ryan said conditions in detention compromised ...

NSW Health Minister says health restructure will improve local decision-making. A middle layer of bureaucracy at the NSW Health Department will be abolished under a restructure that will scrap 300 positions, and savings of $80 million directed to frontline services. ...

Women have been overlooked in suicide prevention programs, despite higher rates of attempted suicide, says advocacy group. Australian women are far more likely to attempt suicide than men but the violent methods men use to take their own lives means ...

Mental health professionals describe epidemic of self-harm and suicide within detention centres. Mental health professionals have renewed their call for an end to the indefinite detention of asylum seekers. Psychologists, psychiatrists and mental health nurses have united to issue a ...

While it is yet to commit to the PC’s timetable for a national disability insurance scheme, the government has defended the seven year lead-in period outlined. While it is yet to commit to the PC’s timetable for a national disability ...

ANF says the PC did not offer real solutions. The final Productivity Commission report into aged care saying it fails to address quality care for elderly Australians, says the ANF. ANF federal secretary Lee Thomas said the report Caring for ...