The need for a drastic policy change towards Indigenous Australians is deemed necessary in the light of their current circumstances. This is recommended as the only way to offer them a radical hope for a better future, even as a systemic denial of health, education and opportunity to them as presently practiced may eventually lead to their cultural elimination.
Is Australia still a victim of the delusions of psychiatry?She is a 97-year-old female. She lived alone, we are told, in 'an inner-city flat'. The government provided her with weekly housework assistance, and her nephew prepared her meals every day. She presented at the hospital expressing 'delusional ideas of worthlessness, guilt and poverty'. She felt she did not deserve to eat or drink. She was agitated and dishevelled. She was unable to give informed consent…
