Ian Hickie
Ian Hickie is the co-director, health and policy at the Brain and Mind Centre, University of Sydney, and a former national mental health commissioner.
- Opinion
- Jobs
A challenge for new RBA governor: Unemployment and suicide are directly linked
Our new research exposes the devastating impact of joblessness. We must rethink the notion of an “acceptable” jobless rate, or more people will die at the altar of low inflation.
- Jo-An Occhipinti and Ian Hickie
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- Opinion
- Mental health
Halving the number of subsidised psych sessions is the right call
Rather than simply perpetuating the Commonwealth’s biggest but most unfair investment in mental health, Minister Butler has taken the first critical step towards implementing 21st-century mental healthcare.
- Ian Hickie
- Opinion
- Coronavirus pandemic
Sudden interest in mental health during COVID is welcome but weaponising the issue is not
Just one month ago a media report unveiled a massive rise in young people reporting to emergency departments, but reaction was muted.
- Ian Hickie
- Opinion
- Coronavirus pandemic
Talk about un-Australian: our Anglo, male pandemic commanders do not speak for much of the nation
The top-down nature of our COVID briefings, with their focus on individual accountability, misses the mark for many Australians, whose cultural traditions place greater weight on collective wellbeing and mutual obligation.
- Ian Hickie