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Waiting for rehab
It’s estimated 500,000 people can’t access the drug and alcohol treatment they need when they need it in Australia. For people with addictions waiting for a residential rehab bed, the delay can send them down an even tougher path.
The cost of ADHD
Everything feels super expensive at the moment, but what if you had to spend hundreds - even thousands - of dollars on a medical diagnosis? That's the reality for heaps of young Australians trying to work out if they have ADHD, and usually after months on a waitlist. So why is it so hard?
Fertility Freak Out
Celebrity mum Kris Jenner suggested to Kendall recently that she should freeze her eggs – she's 26 – and Mary from Selling Sunset is telling women to do it while they're young to avoid future fertility issues. The fertility freak out is real.
AUSTRALIA’S FIRST ABORTION DOULA
Could it have helped you to have someone beside you during your abortion? Perhaps an abortion doula would have helped. A new Brisbane-based program is teaching doulas how to support people through pregnancy terminations, especially Queenslanders living regionally and rurally. Doulas are most commonly known for supporting people through pregnancy, birth and postpartum periods, but Children by Choice’s program teaches them how to support people through a different challenge. Edwina Storie attended the intensive abortion doula training.
RELIGIOUS DRUG REHABILITATION
Should drug rehab ever involve religion? There is a lack of public funding available for Australian rehab centres meaning many people have to turn to private centres which are often funded by religious organisations. Working with Avani Dias, I looked into the connections between Hillsong and a Western Sydney rehab.
Days Like These, RN
THE LONG WAY HOME
A brother and sister duo face a life-changing diagnosis, a family secret and flooding rains as they race across state borders to make it home. This is a story about the frustrations and fractures of addiction, the loneliness of life in a pandemic and the wonders of long-distance love. Mostly, it's about the ties that bind, and the people who are always there for us, even when you don't expect it.
ABC Radio
Gay conversion ban, trans athletes, youth support among priorities for Queensland's regional LGBTI voters
It’s estimated 500,000 LGBTI people live in Queensland, with many living regionally and rurally. With Saturday’s state election predicted to be tight, they share their wishes for a next term of government, and what issues are influencing their vote.
Scammers target desperate renters on Sunshine Coast as housing crisis continues
Scammers are taking advantage of the desperate rental situation on the Sunshine Coast, where the vacancy rate has dipped as low as 0.5 per cent in some areas.
Sunshine Coast rentals dry up, with real estate agents citing investor sales to owner-occupiers
Investors selling up, interstate residents moving in, and first home buyers entering the market –renting on the Sunshine Coast is getting extremely tight. So much so that some renters are having to find temporary accommodation until they can secure a new home. Edwina Storie reports…
Queensland rental crisis deepens as family pets are surrendered to avoid homelessness
Animal refuges around Queensland are seeing an increase in surrendered pets due to the rental crisis, as family turn to desperate measures to avoid homelessness.
THIS WEEK IN SEX, APRIL
This Week in Sex, a part-human-part-monkey embryo, protests are sparked by Mark Latham’s amendments to an Education Bill that seek to prevent discussion of gender fluidity, and sexual health organisations see a sudden increase in demand for consent training.
THIS WEEK IN SEX, FEBRUARY
This Week in Sex, the Government introduces a IVF website to help support couples struggling with fertility, decriminalisation of abortion is highlighted by the Termination of Pregnancy Bill in South Australia, and Queensland sees a spike in gonorrhea.
