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12 November 2025

Psychiatrists back Productivity Commission’s call to fix the mental health plan and system

25 November 2025

Another day, another damning report: Emergency departments buckle under mental health crisis

Imagine waiting almost a full day in a chaotic emergency department while experiencing a mental heal...

21 November 2025

ADHD care: A critical issue requiring calm, clinically led reform, psychiatrists say

The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) has called for calm, clinical...

21 November 2025

Psychiatrists release new position statement on ADHD

The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP), has today released a new Pos...

20 November 2025

Puberty blocker pause could harm vulnerable young people, psychiatrists say

06 November 2025

Record mental health ED wait times a symptom of system-wide failure

The AMA’s latest report confirms what frontline psychiatrists have known for years: Australia’s ment...

31 October 2025

Health and legal experts unite for NT’s youth incarceration crisis

Leading mental health and medical experts gathered with lawyers, Aboriginal -controlled, and communi...

29 October 2025

SA psychiatrists back GP-led ADHD diagnosis, stress the importance of access to specialist care

South Australian psychiatrists say enabling GPs to diagnose attention deficit hyperactivity disorder...

23 October 2025

Psychiatrists welcome WA’s carded play move, urge national action on gambling harm

Psychiatrists have welcomed the Western Australian Government’s introduction of mandatory carded pla...

17 October 2025

Psychiatrists warn cohealth closures will leave Victoria’s vulnerable worse-off

The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) is deeply concerned about the...

10 October 2025

World Mental Health Day: Retain workers to top up the mental health system

On World Mental Health Day, Tū Te Akaaka Roa, the New Zealand National Committee of the Royal Austra...