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May 5, 2025
Swipe Right, Feel Lonely: Dating Apps And Social Media Are Making Gen Z Feel Isolated
A new report calls for a national response to Australia's mental health crisis as loneliness, social media overuse and cost-of-living pressures continue to impact Australia's Gen Z and Millennials.
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April 28, 2025
Connection Is Prevention: Calls For A National Social Health Plan To Address The Mental Health Crisis That Can’t Be Solved With 7,500 Psychiatrists And 30,000 Psychologists
We’re convening a first-of-its-kind national conversation today in Sydney today bringing together medical leaders and members of Australia’s hidden workforce.
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March 22, 2025
Herald Sun Exclusive: Foundation for Social Health Joins Orygen, Medibank, Australian Psychological Society, Mental Health Australia and Kosmos Samaras In Calls for Mental Health Priority Ahead of Federal Budget
Chief executive Melanie Wilde said next week’s federal Budget was an opportunity to overhaul how mental health was funded.
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March 17, 2025
Out Of The Shadows And Onto The Stage: How Actors Are Helping Lonely Canberrans See Their Own Struggle Without Stigma
Ever found it difficult to talk about your mental health and feeling lonely? Fair enough, most people do. That’s why we’re trying something new in the ACT to reduce loneliness and combat stigma.
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March 7, 2025
Dutton Wants Public Servants Back In The Office, But Is There Enough Space?
Chief executive officer of the Foundation For Social Health, Melanie Wilde, said she was concerned about connectivity and loneliness if central office areas were reduced.
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March 5, 2025
Canberra Is Australia’s Loneliest City. Could Peter Dutton’s Return To The Office Mandate For Public Servants Solve This Crisis Of Connection?
The truth is simple: we need genuine human connection. We are inherently social beings, and work serves as one of the primary spaces where we form those essential bonds.
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March 5, 2025
We Will Never Have Enough Psychologists To Fix A Broken Mental Health System. It's Time To Build Something New.
We'll never have enough psychologists to address the mental health crisis in the ACT or in Australia. Nearly half of Australians—11 million people—will experience mental ill health in their lifetime.
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March 4, 2025
Dutton’s End To Work-From-Home For 365,000 Public Servants Could Improve Social Health But It Shouldn’t Be A Hard-and-Fast Rule
Peter Dutton’s election commitment today to mandate return to the office for 365,000 public servants provides possible positive mental health and broader social health benefits, but flexibility is key
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February 26, 2025
A More Connected Canberra: Workplace Insights Paper
We've partnered with Redbridge to survey 1,139 ACT residents and gain an understanding of how changes to the nature of work, and specifically, fixed office workplace location impacted mental health.
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February 14, 2025
A Love Letter To My Old Boss: Assistant Health Minister Ged Kearney
Your health package is monumental, Ged. You’ve achieved something extraordinary, and I know how hard it is to push these issues in rooms that are still far too full of men.
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February 14, 2025
Do You Even Need To Be My Valentine? The Meaning Of Love In Today’s Loneliness Epidemic
Whether you had a good, bad, tragic, romantic or non-existent Valentine's Day—it's okay. The notion of a single day for grand romantic gestures feels outdated, particularly in a world where so many ex
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January 24, 2025
We Need Solutions To The Mental Health Crisis Beyond Therapy And Medication
Nearly half of all Canberrans will experience a mental health condition in their lifetime, and one in four Australians are lonely. It's more likely that someone will die today from social isolation th
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January 22, 2025
What Workplace Bullying Is Doing To Us
Work is where we spend most of our lives. It’s where we meet people who might shape the contours of our days, whether as collaborators, companions, or the occasional awkward small talker.
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November 19, 2024
'Social' Media Is Lonely
Social media is making millennial and Gen Z users more lonely and disconnected in their lives, according to new research by the Foundation for Social Health.
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November 11, 2024
Submission To NSW Loneliness Inquiry
The Foundation for Social Health aims to address loneliness and social isolation by tackling the problem at the population level by improving social bonds.
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