Comments on: Youth suicide funding announced

By: barbara karpinski

barbara karpinski — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 12:33:07 +0000

I think it is fantastic that there is an increase to funding but discrimination protections and suicide prevention is intimately linked. In Australia, in NSW at least, with poor anti-discrimination protections, no human rights recourse against state human rights abuses by health services and the police, no apology from the governments regarding arrests and detention of GLBTI individuals in Pentridge prison and NSW prisons and limited access to locally based human rights options, it seems like the government is unaware that as the Ottowa report states, mental health and well being is intimately connected to access to justice and equality.
We demand more. Law Reform, independant police integrity bodies to investigate homophobic and transphobic crimes, a new charter for equality, and a lot more.
Money is a start.

By: Zoe Belle Gender CentreFunding win for Victoria's sex and gender diverse community hailed as "historic first step" - Zoe Belle Gender Centre

Sun, 27 Nov 2011 21:56:05 +0000

[…] As announced by Mental Health Minister Mary Wooldridge last Friday, ZBGC was one of seven community organisations awarded funding as part of a $4.5 million package for the GLBTI community. ZBGC will receive non-recurrent funding of $146,000 over 4 years. The funding will enable ZBGC to assist health service providers in reducing suicide and self-harm rates among young gender diverse and gender questioning people. […]

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 13:03:10 +0000

How absurd the Liberal National Party would help kids up onto a bridge, then say do not jump, we just do not like you!

These idiots just stripped protections in the Victorian Equal Opportunity Act, that will be measured in the increaes in suicides.

I have to ask Mental Health Minister Mary Wooldridge, were all those kids you sent to an early grave worth your act of hate?

How many court cases, ambulances, coronors cases, police investigations, and children dead, will it take for Mental Minister Mary Wooldrige to be satisfied that being Same-Sex attracted, should not be used as an excuse to exclude people from thousands of government jobs? A thousand?

This mental health funding simply does not cover cost of the Liberal Party hate.They are a party of the absurd and stupid.

I am getting sick of the extra taxes we have to pay as the Liberal/National Party say to kids, like Robert Clark, the Attorney General did “Homosexuality is a sick disease”.

By: Matt Dixon

Matt Dixon — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 12:54:37 +0000

Excellent news!
A good bunch of community organisations.