Imagine going to your doctor and having treatment forced upon you. This is called compulsory treatment and in Australia it’s legal.
Compulsory mental health treatment is when a psychiatrist believes that a patient is at a severe risk of harming themselves or others, who can then be forced to take medication or undergo treatment.
But how subjective is that decision on labelling the risk? And if the medical practitioner gets it wrong it means a loss of their rights, and quite often incredibly strong and debilitating medication.
Dr Kay Wilson from the University of Melbourne joins the Briefing to explain how compulsory treatment works and the stigmas attached to mental health in Australia.
Headlines:
30% spike in women killed by intimate partners last year
US hopeful Hamas will accept new ceasefire offer
Telcos to be forced to prioritise Triple Zero functions in outages
News from the Royals
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At least 120-thousand people are experiencing homelessness in any given night in Australia. And this isn't a problem that only we are facing, with many countries around the globe struggling to tackle the homelessness issue.
However, this isn’t the case in Finland.
In their capital, Helsinki, the government aims to end homelessness – or get it down to where becoming homeless is likely to be very temporary for most people – by 2025.
So how are they doing this? And could Australia learn from what they’re doing right?
On this episode, Bension Siebert speaks with Juha Kahila, Head of International Affairs at the Y-Foundation, as he joins us from Finland.
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Huge crowds gathered at the weekend to protest laws that see high-risk offenders released on bail.
As anger mounts over this year’s soaring domestic violence death toll, we speak with Kay Schubach, a domestic violence survivor about what really needs to change to stop more Australian women dying at the hands of offenders released by our courts.
In this episode of The Briefing, Kay joins Sacha Barbour Gatt to talk about what we can all do – from the public to government and judicial system - to break the horrific cycle of post-custody attacks by high-risk domestic violence offenders.
Headlines:
Emergency National Cabinet meeting called after weekend of gender violence rallies
Antony Blinken to travel to Saudi Arabia to help restart ceasefire talks
Australia’s Defence Minister has spent the weekend in Ukraine
Titanic watch breaks records at auction
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Do you feel like you have a good work-life balance? It’s something that most people struggle with, particularly with current cost-of-living pressures.
Tim Duggan is the co-founder of Junkee Media. As a young man who launched several digital media platforms he knows a thing or two about work life balance. He’s also the author of several books, his latest is called Work Backwards.
In this interview with Tom Tilley he talks about what he did with the freedom to choose his work, after selling Junkee for around 15 million dollars.
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Nina Oyama wants people to hire more lesbians. She also has a fondness for iPads over mobiles. But most of all, Nina is funny.
She’s a comedian, actor and award-winning writer and director who can go from smutty stand-up to sweet characters on screen. Her portrayal of the uptight eco warrior Courtney in Utopia or the anxious policewoman Abby in Deadloch being some of her stand out performances.
Her latest live show is called 'Nina Oyama is Coming' and in this chat with Antoinette Lattouf, she explains why you’ll never look back if you hire a lesbian and why her greatest achievement in life involves hanging upside down.
Tickets to Nina's show here
WEEKEND LIST
TO LISTEN - Ushers album Coming Home
TO TRY - Foot lotion and socks
TO TRY - Order coffee using fake names
TO LISTEN - Clara Bow Scandal series on Shameless
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