Lived Experience Australia

People are dying preventable deaths because of systemic discrimination. We're not stopping until that changes.

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The next step is making sure your local MP knows this matters in your community. If you haven't yet added your voice, the campaign is still open. The full report and factsheet with concrete recommendations are available at the Equally Well website.

We know what the solutions look like. What's been missing is governments treating this as the crisis it actually is when they make funding and policy decisions.

If you've signed the letters, thank you.

The Unequally Well Report synthesised twenty years of research showing 46 people die every day from preventable physical illnesses because healthcare discrimination is embedded in how services get funded and delivered. We know what the problems are.

But this can't be a moment - it needs to be sustained pressure.

A couple of weeks ago we asked you to support the Equally Well Call to Action addressing the eleven-year life expectancy gap for people receiving mental healthcare. Hundreds have signed on, which shows the groundswell is building.

Congratulations @MHCC_NSW on a decade of transformative workforce development.

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10 years of the Certificate IV in Mental Health Peer Work:

📊 1,148 enrolments
🎓 1,077 scholarships awarded
👥 Consumer peer workers now 2nd largest workforce group in NSW CMOs (12.3%)

This is what structural change looks like when lived experience is properly valued.

Whether you're navigating anxiety yourself or supporting someone who is, your experience shapes better research.

Closes 9 November.

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Not the usual "phones are ruining us" panic, but genuine exploration of patterns: the 2am doom scrolling, the fear of missing out mixed with fear of being seen, the way exhaustion and anxiety feed each other.

Survey takes about 15 minutes.

We're working with @flindersuniversity.bsky.social @qutdmrc.bsky.social for research into social media, sleep and anxiety - and we need perspectives from people who've actually lived this.

Register to attend ONLINE >> zurl.co/QFnpX

The discussion will be followed by an opportunity to network and talk one to one with our panelists and BEING staff over afternoon tea, served in the Fountain Court.

Click one of the links below to book your free place.

Register to attend IN PERSON >> zurl.co/4VTEt

Lismore flood response team.

The event will be moderated by BEING CEO Giancarlo de Vera who is personally invested in this topic having advocated at the United Nations for a disability inclusive approach to governments’ climate action response.

Annie Monks - A multi generational, Northerner Rivers queer, aboriginal woman, Annie is a mental health clinician at the Medicare mental health centre in Lismore and has worked in the Byron Bay MHU - “Tuckeroo.” In 2022, Annie volunteered as a mental health peer worker for the

Butch Young - A 20 year veteran mental health consumer advocate and peer worker, Butch was appointed Mental Health Commander at the Bateman’s Bay Hanging Rock evacuation centre during the Black Summer bushfires of 2019

Nirvana Talukder – law student, youth climate activist, member of the Australian Youth Climate Coalition and School Strike for Climate Change organiser

Dr Blanche Verlie – Sydney Environment Institute (University of Sydney), Blanche is a multidisciplinary social scientist whose work focuses on climate change including how policy negligence and gaslighting by political leaders contribute to climate injustice

Dr Amanda Cohn MLC – Greens spokesperson for mental health and chair of the 2023 NSW Government inquiry into the “Equity, accessibility and appropriate delivery of outpatient and community mental health care in NSW”

Representing a broad range of perspectives as well as immense experience in the fields of: politics, research, activism and mental health lived experience, the panelists are:

- what do we need to do to mitigate the impacts if we are to avoid a catastrophic impact on our collective mental health?

The Panelists

its theme for Mental Health Day 2025.

This discussion panel will explore:
- the links between climate change and mental health
- how have recent floods, droughts and bushfires impacted mental health?
- why is this of such concern and are what the implications?

The impact of climate anxiety and disaster exposure on our mental health, particularly that of young people, warrants deeper and more urgent attention, and is perhaps why the @WFMH World Federation for Mental Health identified “Mental Health in Catastrophes and Emergencies” as

When: Friday 17 October 2025, 1:00pm-3:00pm AEDT
Where: NSW Parliament House, Macquarie St, Sydney & online

Our colleagues at @BEING - Mental Health Consumers in NSW are hosting a special panel discussion as part of Mental Health Month.

We are sharing this information as provided by them.

Climate Change and Mental Health - “A Ticking Timebomb?”

Join NEDC’s National Strategy Forum: Advancing Workforce Development Across the Stepped
System of Care – online, Wed 22 Oct 2025, 1–2pm AEDT. Explore practical tools to
strengthen and sustain the workforce.

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Whether you've accessed services or supported someone who has, your perspective matters.

Contribute via:
- 10-15 min survey, or
- 2 hr focus group

This is how we ensure reform delivers real change, not just policy documents.

Register: zurl.co/jyaYe

Queensland consumers, carers & families - your lived experience is needed for the Better Care Together evaluation.

Ethicol (independent researchers) is assessing QLD Health's mental health & AOD services plan through to 2027.

The survey will take 30 - 40 minutes of your time, and you will have an opportunity to enter a prize draw for 1 out of 2 Coles/Myer vouchers.

Please scan the QR code or follow the link: zurl.co/AG0Uc