by White Wreath | Aug 4, 2021 | Director's Reports
BY THE WHITE WREATH ASSOCIATION LTD & PETER NEAME WHITE WREATH ASSOCIATION RESEARCH OFFICER AND BOOK AUTHOR. The following is a Submission that we wrote to Sir Peter Cosgrove in 2004 with this same Submission repeated over many years to various Royal...
by White Wreath | Mar 23, 2021 | Director's Reports
Suicide/Mental Illness is the cause of death of hundreds of thousands of lives every year. Nothing alarms a family more than losing a loved one to suicide/ mental illness. Globally approximately close to one million people die from suicide every year – that’s twice...
by White Wreath | Aug 14, 2020 | Director's Reports
Australia’s mental health services and voluntary organisations have been inundated with calls from troubled mental health clients and threatened suicide cases. White Wreath services are available 24 hours a day. In these difficult times, we are there for...
by White Wreath | Apr 1, 2020 | Director's Reports
I cannot recall how many Royal Commissions and Senate inquiries have been held into Mental Health. Millions of dollars have been wasted and nothing has changed. This edition of the newsletter covers the interim report from the Victorian Royal Commission. I am appalled...
by White Wreath | Apr 1, 2020 | Director's Reports
The revelation from the World Health Organisation that 800,00 people die by suicide each year – one every 40 seconds – making it the second leading cause of death among young people (aged 15 to 29) comes as unsurprising. In Australia in 2018 there were 3046 deaths by...
by White Wreath | Aug 16, 2019 | Director's Reports
Two articles in this edition of the White Wreath newsletter highlight the complexity of problems facing Australia’s mental health/ suicide programs. The first is a $400,000 research grant to find new ways the help protect people at the risk of suicide and find...
