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Health Matters Australia is hosted by a strategist exploring the pulse of the Australian healthcare system, from hospitals to home care, and the professionals who power it. Each episode unpacks how doctors, nurses, allied-health experts, and mental-health champions keep the nation alive and well. With a clear-eyed look at the system’s structure, strengths, and struggles, the show brings listeners real stories and expert insights on the people behind the care, their impact, challenges, and th ...
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The Australian Health Company

The Australian Health Company

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The Australian Health Company is a leading healthcare provider dedicated to promoting well-being. Offering a wide range of medical services, they prioritize excellence in patient care, innovation, and community health.
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The health podcast series brings you highlights and data snapshots from the wide range of health data collected by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). The Health podcast will showcase this data in a series of short conversations that discuss Australia's health status following release of data from the suite of health surveys conducted by the ABS. The episodes will discuss a variety of topics, including health risk factors such as smoking and obesity, rates of physical activity and die ...
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Breaking Taboos: Older Australians talk about mental health

Helene Thomas, Mia Lindgren and Kate Burridge

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Breaking Taboos is a ten-part conversational podcast about ageing and mental health. The episodes explore how older Australians experience mental health, focusing on depression in later life, creating social connections, intergenerational living, experiences of grief, retiring and transitioning into aged care, late-life gender transition, living with HIV/AIDS as an older person and how some people don't want to talk about their experiences to avoid burdening others. The series seeks to infor ...
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In this profoundly moving episode, Felix Grippo facilitates an emotional conversation between Warru, a proud Murri great-grandfather from Queensland, and Dr. Janali Barla, the psychologist who helped save his life. Warru shares his heartbreaking journey of living 43 years with undiagnosed schizophrenia.…
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Join host Felix Grippo and Dr. Samantha Wright as they demystify allied health services in Australia. Discover what allied health really means, explore the 27+ professions that fall under this umbrella, and learn who benefits from these essential services. Dr. Wright breaks down the ins and outs of accessing allied health through Medicare, chronic …
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David Menadue is one of the longest surviving people with AIDS in Australia. David has overcome many AIDS-related illnesses since he was positively diagnosed with HIV in 1984. He was 32 years old at the time. David has lived a much longer life than many expected him to. He puts this down to a few things, but what he believes has had the biggest imp…
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Grief is a common and yet unique experience for all of us. Listening to people share their experiences - the various ways they’ve responded - can deepen our understanding of the grieving process. This episode - Dealing with Grief - is the story of Linda, a woman whose journey through unimaginable loss speaks to the power of creativity, resilience, …
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In this episode - Intergenerational Living - our producer Helene Thomas visits a mother-and-daughter sharehouse. It was eight years ago that Elizabeth’s daughter was looking for a housemate. Elizabeth was in her mid 50s, and she was also looking for a place to live, so they moved in together. Turns out they are the best of housemates. They live in …
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Throughout his life Fred has always been the captain of his own ship. As a business owner he had a lot of confidence in his abilities and was regarded as an upstanding citizen in his local community. When he was in his mid-50s, Fred found himself in a situation where a business partnership soured and he was forced to retire early. He describes his …
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Transgender woman Kathy Mansfield shares her experience of depression at the age of 62, right at the cusp of her gender journey. We learn through Kathy’s living experience that as well as feeling liberated from living authentically, there are unique challenges some older adults face when transitioning. Kathy is from rural Victoria, and she’s now in…
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In some cultures, men are socially encouraged and trained to not to talk openly about what they are feeling and experiencing, seeing any kind of vulnerability as a weakness. This has been the case for the two men who feature in this episode: Crying doesn’t make you soft it makes you human. Keith Smith is from a rural setting in southern Tasmania. P…
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In this episode we are taken to a choir rehearsal and fishing club meeting in Hervey Bay Queensland. And an exercise class at a village hub in Perth, Western Australia. The two women we’ll be hearing from value social connection and staying active as they get older. Both are in their 60s. Anne from Hervey Bay, not her real name, has joined fishing …
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In this episode - Don’t want to be a burden - we hear from two women, one almost 90-year-old and the other is in her late 70s. The women have chosen to use a pseudonym for this podcast, and so we are calling them Kay and Eva. Kay and Eva have both experienced their fair share of hardships throughout their lives, but have chosen to keep these experi…
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Some people go through life without ever experiencing any mental health conditions. But what happens when you suddenly find yourself in your late 80s feeling depressed and anxious for the first time. In this episode, 'First time depression as an octogenarian', we learn how physical changes can lead to big emotions. How do you make sense of these ov…
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For this episode - The pursuit of happiness, our producer Helene Thomas spent time inside an aged care home in southern Tasmania. Every Wednesday morning, retirees Geoff Atkins and Phil Hoysted play a game of trivial pursuit with some of the residents there. The activity room turns into a hot-bed of competitiveness and cheekiness, making it the hig…
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Breaking Taboos: Older Australians Talk About Mental Health is a ten-part conversational podcast series that brings raw, heartfelt stories into the spotlight, offering an unfiltered look at the mental health journeys of Australians aged 60 and over. From navigating grief, retirement, and aged care transitions to living with HIV/AIDS or undergoing g…
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Workplace Health & Safety Show is Australia's largest showcase of products, equipment, technology, and services to reduce worker illnesses, injuries, and fatalities. Supported by the Australian Institute of Health & Safety, the Shows is the biggest single gathering of buyers and decision-makers responsible for occupational health, safety, environme…
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In the first episode of 2024, Sinead talks with PhD candidate Craig Stanbury from Monash Bioethics Centre on his research about the ethics of procreating in a time of climate change. Craig talks about the role of justice in moral tragedies, the rights, responsibilities, and duties of people in their reproductive choices, and how all of us can have …
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In 2016, professional surfer, Brett Connellan was attacked by a great white shark at Bombo Beach, NSW. Floating towards death's door, he began to fight back and reached for life. After just 5 months he made it back into the waters, but found his gift of storytelling was going to have a greater impact on our world. Tune in to hear from Brett about h…
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Supported Independent Living (SIL) under the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is a transformative approach to empower individuals with disabilities by providing tailored support for them to lead independent lives. The Australian Health Company, a pioneer in healthcare services, plays a pivotal role in facilitating this empowerment journe…
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In 2023 ACHLR is proud to deliver its 11th Oration presented by Professor Emily Jackson who will discuss Regulating Reproduction. This lecture will revisit some of the themes of Professor Jackson’s 2001 book Regulating Reproduction: Law, Technology and Autonomy, in which she argued that women’s reproductive autonomy should be better protected by th…
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Established in 1989, Awards Australia is a Corporate Social Responsibility market leader. Specialising in awards recognition programs on a state and national level, clients and the community receive win/win opportunities and outcomes through established marketing, media and event management expertise. With it's Community Awards it looks to highligh…
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Ruthie and Sinead are delighted to release a special podcast with the Hon. Justice Michael Kirby who discusses his role in the World Health Organisation’s response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Australia, as well as unique features of the Australian response that enabled the nation to quickly and effectively curtail a public health emergency that was…
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Doctoral Candidate Ruthie Jeanneret, our very own podcast host, discusses the role of patients and families in influencing VAD regulation, drawing on insights from interviews with patients and families in Victoria and Canada. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesAutor: Queensland University of Technology (QUT)
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Dr. Laura Ley Greaves, a medical practitioner, discusses the importance of considering doctors’ perspectives of providing VAD in Australia, including the emotional impacts of being involved as a VAD provider. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesAutor: Queensland University of Technology (QUT)
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Doctoral Candidate Madeleine Archer provides an overview the assisted dying model in Belgium and some similarities and differences with the Australian approach, and highlights some insights and lessons for Australia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesAutor: Queensland University of Technology (QUT)
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Dr. Katrine Del Villar explores how the Commonwealth Criminal Code Act 1995 prohibition on using a carriage service (i.e., telehealth) to discuss “suicide” and state Voluntary Assisted Dying laws interact to create a unique and difficult problem for Australians accessing VAD. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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Project Manager Katherine Waller provides a comparison of the Australian VAD laws across the states, and highlights the universal requirement for participating practitioners to undertake mandatory training in the law. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesAutor: Queensland University of Technology (QUT)
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In the realm of healthcare and disability services, the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) in Australia stands as a beacon of hope and support for individuals living with disabilities. At The Australian Health Company, we take immense pride in being a key player in providing long-term disability accommodation services under the NDIS.…
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Once Barron hit 18, he could not leave Nowra fast enough. Over the next few years he travelled the world ending up in New York as a documentary film maker. The fast pace of New York soon caught up and it's there that he discovered meditation that led him to eventually becoming a Vedic Meditation teacher. Some research into meditators in Washington …
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Sinead and Ruthie interview Professor Luc Deliens in the latest episode: Learn Me Right in Public Health Palliative Care. Luc makes the point that how we conceptualize palliative care needs to change to better suit the needs of those at the end of life, including through more communitarian-based care structures. Learn more about your ad choices. Vi…
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PCA are Australia’s leading community-based organisation for prostate cancer research, awareness, and support. Anne Savage, who is the CEO of the Foundation, joins us in this episode to explain the role the foundation and which groups of men should consider getting tested. The challenge is one of education for the community and getting it detected,…
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Tammi is a renowned author, speaker and life coach. After Tammi lived with a mild level of anxiety all of her life, but it wasn't until she had a panic attack in front of a new partner, that she developed a system on how to deal with it. Tammi's system was used for about year and then she got published with Murdoch Books who are a part of Allen & U…
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Sinead and Ruthie interview Ezra Kneebone in the latest episode: Learn Me Right in Surrogacy. Ezra is a PhD Candidate at Monash University and a research assistant in the Monash Bioethics Centre. Ezra provides an overview of surrogacy in Australia explains why so many Australian babies born via surrogate are born overseas. Ezra highlights the lived…
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Sinead and Ruthie interview Dr Megan Prictor in the latest episode: Learn Me Right in Clinical Decision Support Systems. Megan talks us through the Practice Fusion case in the United States, where a company was fraudulently receiving money from a pharmaceutical company to influence the design of CDSS software. Megan highlights potential complexitie…
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