Perth / Western Australia
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Local News/lifestyle:
https://www.theurbanlist.com/perth
https://perthvoiceinteractive.com/
https://margaretriver.wine/news/
https://postnewspapers.com.au/read-the-post/
https://fremantleshippingnews.com.au/
https://www.thebelltowertimes.com/
https://particle.scitech.org.au/
https://www.margaretrivermail.com.au/
https://heraldonlinejournal.com/
https://www.businessnews.com.au/ (subscriber)
University/TAFE news:
https://www.notredame.edu.au/news
https://www.northmetrotafe.wa.edu.au/news-and-events
https://www.ecu.edu.au/newsroom/overview
https://pelicanmagazine.com.au/
https://www.murdoch.edu.au/news
https://www.curtin.edu.au/news/
https://westernindependent.com.au/
Noteworthy West Australians blogs/other
https://www.brendansodyssey.com/youtube-videos
https://freoview.wordpress.com/
https://theconversation.com/profiles/flavio-macau-998456/articles
https://theconversation.com/profiles/hannah-mcglade-340927/articles
Government/LGA:
https://www.wa.gov.au/government/announcements
https://www.dbca.wa.gov.au/get-involved/newsletters/bushland-news
https://www.vincent.wa.gov.au/
https://www.stirling.wa.gov.au/your-city/news
https://www.commerce.wa.gov.au/announcements
https://slwa.wa.gov.au/whats-new
https://perth.wa.gov.au/news-and-updates
https://visit.museum.wa.gov.au/boolabardip/exhibitions
https://inherit.dplh.wa.gov.au/Public/
https://www.emergency.wa.gov.au/
WA Podcasts:
https://wildwapodcast.com/
https://www.businessnews.com.au/podcasts
https://particle.scitech.org.au/explore/podcasts/
National sites that occasionally have WA specific articles:
https://reneweconomy.com.au/
https://www.railexpress.com.au/
https://www.theguardian.com/au
https://theconversation.com/au
https://www.oznativeplants.com/index.html
https://www.abc.net.au/esperance
https://www.abc.net.au/goldfields
https://www.abc.net.au/greatsouthern
https://www.abc.net.au/kimberley
https://www.abc.net.au/wheatbelt
https://www.abc.net.au/pilbara
https://www.abc.net.au/southwestwa
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And we should also recognise that mental health statistics are not trending in a positive direction, particularly among young people who will, in the coming years, be adults capable of legally owning firearms. It's pretty common to hear something along the lines of "I never knew" or "I didn't think they were capable of that" from family and friends following a suicide or act of public violence. Whether people are inherently "good" or "bad" isn't what should be focused on here.
Woah. Someone other than Mountaineer read this. On a thread this deep on a small community on a post two days old. I'm impressed!
It's a bit of a tangent, but I don't buy into the notion that mental health is declining. It's being discussed in younger generations. The issues were always there. I think it's great that it is discussed.
The prevalence of mental illness among young people (aged 15-34) has more than doubled within the last decade. It's possible that is partially due to younger people being more open about their mental health, but the trend is still very significant when compared to middle-aged and older people.
A hell of a lot of the rise in diagnosis is the attitudinal and knowledge change thats happened in this area. I'm not yet middle aged and even in my lifetime i'm noticing the attitudinal difference.
I can't stop to find it, but there was actually a satirical post on Lemmy All yesterday about this, might still be high in the feed.
It's not just diagnosis that has spiked, it's also hospitalisations. The rapid decline of the mental health of young people between 2010 and 2015 is consistent throughout the Western world, not just in Australia. I don't find it believable that a decrease in stigma or an increase in education could be the sole cause of the same phenomenon around the world, during the same short time period and to such extreme degrees.