Perhaps something such as this?

“They held an Election on July 2nd in 2016. The second most shameful practice in their history, (after their treatment of the original inhabitants of the land) was left off their voting agenda.  

“The courage, creativity and morality of their leaders must have been under immense pressure.

“Their disconnection from their hearts and souls so great that their fear, pride and fixation with ‘stopping the boats’ (under the guise of stopping the people smugglers, was so strong that they managed to brainwash their whole nation into allowing them to keep thousands of fefugees - desperate men, women and children as prisoners in horrific detention centres on small islands for years.

“Some of the People  ‘woke up’ reclaimed their courage, sense of justice and compassion and began speaking out, challenging their leaders, marching in the streets, speaking strongly about the injustice, the immorality and inhumanity.  

However the media collaborated with the leaders and ‘silenced’ or ‘distorted' their outcries. Silenced too (under pain of job loss) the coctors and workers in these terrible detention centres.  

So effective was this, coupled with the collaboration of the two major parties that the people allowed the elections to go ahead without any mention of this most shameful, unjust and inhumane policy.”

We have two weeks left. Is there nothing we want to say or do to alter this historic record?  

Startling new research has revealed the shocking role that “stigma” plays in preventing young Australians seeking help for mental health issues.

Each year, a quarter of all young people in this country will experience mental health issues, but many won’t seek the help that they need.

New research, by the University of Melbourne, Orygen and headspace has revealed that 26 per cent of young Australians aged 12 – 25 would not tell anyone about a personal mental health issue.

It also shows that 52 per cent of young people are too embarrassed to discuss a mental health problem with anyone and nearly half were afraid of what others would think. The results also found that 22 per cent would be unlikely or very unlikely to discuss it with their family doctor.

Stigma plays a profound and significant role in stopping Australian youth from seeking help for mental health issues.

It can make it harder to ask for help and get support out of fear of being judged.   

Headspace constructed a Big Stigma in Melbourne’s Southern Cross Station that for the past week has been visited by thousands of members of the public who have taken away a piece of the stigma – a panel from its outer shell containing information about mental health issues and how to seek help for them. Everyone has helped top tear down the stigma, piece by piece, and keep the conversation alive.