Lifeline
Lifeline chat service launched
A service which uses online chat to prevent suicides is providing support to people in distress who are unwilling to use telephone counselling services.
Lifeline for besieged Gillard
Michelle Grattan Julia Gillard has received a boost in Labor's vote and leads Tony Abbott as preferred prime minister for the first time in nine months.
Lifeline for jailed Indonesian children
Natalie O'Brien ADVOCATES for Indonesian children jailed in Australia as adults for crewing people-smuggling boats have welcomed the decision to strip the Australian Federal Police of its role in determining the age...
Dad's pain spawns a lifeline
Jim O'Rourke A YEAR ago Gary Sillett lived through an expectant father's worst nightmare - the premature birth and subsequent death of his child.
Lib could throw PM lifeline on mine tax
Lenore Taylor, Phillip Coorey THE Liberal backbencher Mal Washer says he could support Labor's mining profits tax, giving the Gillard government a potentially crucial vote as it seeks to get the controversial measure through...
Habib's Egyptian lifeline
Natalie O'brien THE Egyptian lawyer of the former Guantanamo Bay detainee Mamdouh Habib flew into Sydney yesterday and volunteered to give evidence at an inquiry into what Australian agencies knew about Mr Habib's...
Report throws Smith a lifeline
Dylan Welch Defence Minister Stephen Smith, under fire over his handling of the Skype affair, has been thrown a lifeline with the leaking of a document that reveals a senior Defence official involved in the...
Lifeline in more ways than one
Ellen Lutton IT WAS postponed because of the flood crisis and then eventually run during the week of cyclone Yasi, but the Lifeline Bookfest has still managed to draw the crowds.
Nurse blamed hoax call for her suicide
The British nurse who died last year after being the victim of a prank by two Australian DJs left a note to her employers saying their action had led to her death.
Dream family ends in tragedy in Canada
It was 2006 and the attraction between the young Australian in Canada on a working holiday, Allyson Meagher, and the local lad, Curtis McConnell, was instant.
SMS plan to help young unemployed
Matthew Dunn With youth unemployment on the rise, Queensland University of Technology researchers are seeking the views of young jobless people to help in the design of a resilience-building SMS service.
How life of spy Ben Zygier unravelled
One can only speculate as to what went through the mind of Melbourne-born Mossad agent Ben Zygier the night he took his life in Israel's most secure prison cell on December 15, 2010.
Half-century for crucial service bringing people back from brink
Amy Corderoy A voice at the end of the line can mean the difference between life and death.
Hell on Nauru revealed
Bianca Hall Asylum seekers began to attempt suicide within a month of being sent to Nauru, internal Department of Immigration reports reveal.
Royal Prank DJ to return to work: report
Radio DJ Mel Greig will reportedly return to work at 2DayFM after being taken off the air over the royal prank call that had tragic consequences.
Police charge alleged mall gunman
Ellen Lutton A gunman involved in a 90-minute showdown with police on multiple charges.
Bosses 'ignore' mental illness
Melissa Davey Top-tier executives are ignoring or denying the mental illness of their staff, the head of Australia's biggest mental health charity says.
Traumatised children self-harming in detention
Bianca Hall Children as young as nine have been involved in a spate of self-harm incidents in immigration detention facilities, despite child psychiatrists issuing repeated warnings over the past decade of the...
Children harming themselves in detention
Bianca Hall CHILDREN are slashing their wrists, arms and bodies with razor blades inside immigration detention facilities, despite child psychiatrists issuing repeated warnings of the dangers of locking them up.
'Problematic' detainees tried to harm themselves
Bianca Hall WITHIN a month of arriving at Nauru, ''problematic'' asylum seekers had tried to hang themselves or cut themselves with razor blades, internal Department of Immigration reports reveal.
