LGBTIQ+ Health Australia Presents: The Latest

Content note: This episode will be discussing suicide, suicidality and mental health. Support is available: QLife provides Australia-wide, anonymous LGBTIQ+ peer support. QLife services are free and available over the phone or on webchat: Call 1800 184 527 or visit qlife.org.au, every day between 3pm and midnight

The Latest in LGBTIQ+ Health and Policy is a podcast that brings you the health and wellbeing hot topic discussions that matter to LGBTIQ+ people.

The National Suicide Prevention Office is a new branch within the National Mental Health Commission – with a dedicated team responsible for working with those with lived and living experience of suicidality to develop a National Suicide Prevention Strategy, setting priorities for suicide prevention research and knowledge sharing around Australia, and leading the development of a national outcomes framework for suicide prevention.

On this episode of The Latest, Triana is joined by the head of the National Suicide Prevention Office, Dr Michael Gardner.  Dr Gardner has extensive experience in government, academic and in-community service provisions in mental health and suicide prevention, and his work is also heavily informed by his own lived experience of suicidality.

Dr Gardner speaks about his work, this new division, as well as the National Suicide Prevention Strategy – and how it’s focussing on suicide and suicidality within the LGBTQIA+ community.

This podcast was produced by JOY Media – Australia’s Rainbow Community Media Organisation. For more information about JOYs services, visit joy.org.au/services

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NOTE: A transcript of this episode can be found HERE

The Latest in LGBTIQ+ Health and Policy is a podcast that brings you the health and wellbeing hot topic discussions that matter to LGBTIQ+ people.

In December the Australian Research Centre in Sex Health and Society or ARCSHS, and the Living with Disability Research Centre at La Trobe University, released a report entitled “Violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation of LGBTQA+ people with disability: a secondary analysis of data from two national surveys”. The report is a sobering reminder of the significant challenges and disparities that LGBTQA+ people with disability experience, especially when other intersections of marginalisation are considered.

On this episode of The Latest, host Triana Butler is joined by Associate Professor, Adam Bourne (he/him), the Acting Director of ARCSHS, and Margherita Coppolino (she/her), a disability and inclusion consultant.

This podcast episode explores themes and issues that may cause distress. If this episode raises any issues, you can contact QLife which provides Australia-wide anonymous, LGBTIQ+ peer support. QLife services are free and available over the phone or on webchat: call 1800 184 527 or visit qlife.org.au.

Alternatively, you can contact the Blue Knot National Counselling and Referral Service for support on issues surrounding the Disability Royal Commission on 1800 421 468 or visit blueknot.org.au.

This podcast was produced by JOY Media – Australia’s Rainbow Community Media Organisation. For more information about JOYs services, visit joy.org.au/services

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The Latest in LGBTIQ+ Health and Policy is a podcast that brings you the health and wellbeing hot topic discussions that matter to LGBTIQ+ people.

Mon Schafter (they/them) is a Walkley Award-winning journalist, producer and presenter who has told countless stories for ABC TV’s 7:30 and Hungry Beast, and a wide range of documentary projects. They are the content lead for the ABCQueer platform and also a non-executive director of LHA member Twenty10, who provide support for young LGBTIQA+ people in New South Wales.

If this episode raises any issues for you, or if you need any support across the holiday season or any time, you can contact QLife 1800 184 527 or visit qlife.org.au.

The episode also discusses LGBTQIA+ Conversion Practices – if you need support, you can find resourses and support services at abbi.org.au/conversion-therapy

This podcast was produced by JOY Media – Australia’s Rainbow Community Media Organisation.

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The Latest in LGBTIQ+ Health and Policy is a podcast that brings you the health and wellbeing hot topic discussions that matter to LGBTIQ+ people.

Pride and Pandemic is a study conducted by the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, in conjunction with LGBTIQ+ Health Australia, exploring the experiences of the LGBTIQ+ community during the pandemic. It will explore mental health and wellbeing impacts, and personal, interpersonal and community strategies to mitigate these impacts.

This podcast was produced by JOY Media – Australia’s Rainbow Community Media Organisation.

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The Latest in LGBTIQ+ Health and Policy is a podcast that brings you the health and wellbeing hot topic discussions that matter to LGBTIQ+ people.

29 August was 100 days since the 2022 Federal Election and the start of the new Albanese Labor government. In this special episode, we have gathered a panel of people from the organisations that partnered to bring you the LGBTIQ+ Federal Election Forum: Matthew Phillips (he/they) Engagement Director of Equality Australia; Cass Best (they/them) a board member at BlaQ Aboriginal Corporation; James Zanotto (he/him) Policy, Research and Communications Director at LGBTIQ+ Health Australia; Morgan Carpenter (he/him) Executive Director of Intersex Human Rights Australia; and Darryl O’Donnell (he/him) CEO of the Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations.

This podcast was produced by JOY Media – Australia’s Rainbow Community Media Organisation.

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Dr Ruth McNair has been a general practitioner for nearly 30 years, working in Melbourne and the Northern Territory.

She has a PhD in lesbian and bisexual women’s health, and has clinical interests in lesbian and bisexual women’s health, fertility and pregnancy care, and the health of trans and gender diverse people.

An Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Melbourne, Dr McNair is an active voice in LGBTIQ+ policy and community development.

Host Triana and Dr McNair talk about why a focus on LGBTIQ+ communities’ health and wellbeing is so important, trends in the health needs of our communities, and what general practitioners can do to provide safe and appropriate care.

This podcast was produced by JOY – Australia’s Rainbow Community Media Organisation. 

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In this special episode of The Latest in LGBTIQ+ Health and Wellbeing, we’re bringing you a recording of the National LGBTIQ+ Election Forum, co-presented by LGBTIQ+ Health Australia, Equality Australia, the Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations, and Intersex Human Rights Australia, and hosted by ABC journalist and broadcaster Patricia Karvelas at the Victorian Pride Centre in Melbourne.

While much progress has been made for LGBTIQ+ people over the past decades, there are still many things left to do to ensure LGBTIQ+ communities’ rights are protected and to reduce the serious disparities in health and wellbeing.

The forum panel, made of Greens Senator Janet Rice, Labor Senator Penny Wong, and Senator Andrew Bragg of the Liberal Party, answered questions from LGBTIQ+ people and community-controlled organisations about discrimination protections and challenging prejudice, how their government would invest in our communities’ health and wellbeing, and preventing harmful medical practices on intersex people.

Note: There were a couple of issues with technology on the evening. We have tried to repair the audio, however you may hear a couple of errors. We apologise for this. 

This podcast was produced by JOY – Australia’s Rainbow Community Media Organisation. 

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LGBTIQ+ Health Australia proudly presents The Latest in LGBTIQ+ Health and Policy, a podcast bringing the latest in LGBTIQ+ health and wellbeing policy to the forefront.

People who are LGBTIQ+ are frequently unable to access safe, timely palliative care that meets their needs, and there is considerable research evidence both nationally and internationally backing that claim.

In Episode 5 of The Latest, our host Triana speaks to Dr Kimberly Acquaviva a professor at the University of Virginia School of Nursing who has become known as an innovator and authority on LGBTQ aging and end of life issues.

The panel this episode is Shane Sturgiss, CEO of BlaQ Aboriginal Corporation, Colleen Johnstone, the CEO of Palliative Care Tasmania, Hannah Morgan who is the National Palliative Care Coordinator at LGBTIQ+ Health Australia, and Craig Cooper from the Australian Digital Health Agency.

This podcast was produced by JOY – Australia’s Rainbow Community Media Organisation.

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This episode of The Latest in LGBTIQ+ Health and Policy introduces our new and complementary format that will be weaved among the longer form episodes moving forward.

Host, Triana Butler, will be chatting to UK based award-winning poet, performer, playwright and educator, Joelle Taylor

Her new poetry collection, “C+nto & Othered Poems”, was released in June 2021, and enters the private lives of women from the butch counterculture, telling the inside story of the protests they led in the 90s, to reclaim their bodies as their own.

Part memoir, part conjecture, C+nto explores sexuality and gender in poetry that is lyrical, expansive, imagistic, epic and intimate.

Joelle and Triana chat about her experiences as a butch lesbian living in 90s London, the stories and characters throughout her life that inspired this incredible book of poetry, as well as discussing the fundamental place poetry has amongst the LGBTIQ+ community and the impact it can have on our health and wellbeing.

She also shares an excerpt from the book – a poem called “Heaven, 1995”.

This podcast was produced by JOY – Australia’s Rainbow Community Media Organisation.

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