Australia

• Mistreated Victorian mental health patients should be given compensation and a public apology, report finds, by Richard Willingham, ABC News Australia, June 12, 2023.
  • Not Before Time: Lived experience-led justice and repair--Advice to the Minister for Mental Health on Acknowledging Harm in the Mental Health System, by Simon Katterl, Caroline Lambert, Chris MacBean, Flick Grey, Lorna Downes, Morgan Cataldo, Katrina Clarke, & Sharon Williams.  Full Report.
• 'They're terrified': Mental health patients fight electro-shock therapy in court, by Georgie Moore, The Victoria Age, August 14, 2017.
• Daniels Family Submission to Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal, February 8, 2017.
• Victoria Supreme Court Tanscript regarding Garth Daniels, April 28, 2016.
• Court Stops Forced Medication, Justice Action, October 9, 2013.
  • Related Documents
•  Deaths in mental health facilities: unexpected, unnatural and violent, by Richard Baker and Nick McKenzie, The Age, September 3, 2011
• Dying in the Arms of the State, by Richard Baker and Nick McKenzie, The Age, September 3, 2011
• Plea to free children from 'chemical cages', by Andrew Taylor, The Sydney Morning Herald, May 15, 2011
• A bitter pill: from depression to obesity, by Mark Metherell, The Sydney Morning Herald, May 14, 2011
• Whistleblower in Coventry: Dr Yolande Lucire and Big Pharma, Opinion by Peter King, Oline Opinion, December 20, 2010.
• Child Shock Therapy, Australian Herald Sun, January 25, 2009.
• Mentally ill win promise on rights, by Nick Miller, January 30, 2009
• 4,000 Kids Under 10 on Mood Drugs, The Australian, December 3, 2008.
• Alert over ADHD guidelines in schools, The Australian, August 19, 2008.
  • Editorial:  Deficit of Attention
• Advance Directives, by Mental Health Legal Centre Inc.
• Consequences of Financial Interests in the Leading Theory of Mental Illness, Vanaheim Group PTY Ltd. 
• Free Rebecca Merhav Effort (Rebecca is being incarcerated at the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne and Clozaril is being forced upon her).
  • Don Weitz March 22, 2006, Letter.
• The Australian: Dark side of a wonder drug, March 28, 2006.
• The Age: Children on ADHD drugs suffer strokes, March 27, 2006.
• Megan Pearson, 'Representing the Mentally Ill: The critical role of advocacy under the Mental Health Act 1986 (Vic)' (2004) 29(4) Alt LJ 174 (Alternative Law Journal).
• Psychiatry with Soul, Dr. Maureen Roberts' non-medication therapy program.
• Gath Daniels
  • Parents of ill man battle hospital over son's care, The Age, September 14, 2008.
  • Freeing Garth Daniels
  • Without Prejudice, letter from Bernard Daniels to Parliamentary Secretary of Health, Ms. Georgie Crozier MLC.

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