The Problems With A Happy Place

Why "imagine your happy place" doesn't always work for panic disorder — and what to try instead. #GroundingTechniques #PanicDisorder #MentalHealth

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Farmers welcome barn owl baby boom after mouse plague

Clutches of barn owl chicks found inside a grain silo and cockatoo boxes indicate a "smorgasbord" of food, experts say. 

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States Can Make Big Tech Pay Their Fair Share

To offset federal cuts, Illinois will now tax corporations using our personal data for advertising. Other states should follow. The post States Can Make Big Tech Pay Their Fair Share appeared first on The Good Men Project.

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Wed Aug 5 2026 - Liberal party corruption claims & fugitive backers: ICAC’s Operation Rosny explained

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Exposure to pesticides at work could raise risk of ALS, study finds

Two people in Australia are diagnosed with ALS each day. Researchers say working with pesticides could bring a 70 per cent greater risk of developing the fatal disease.  

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What we get wrong about conspiracy theorists and narcissists (with Jon Ronson)

Why are we so fascinated by the people on the absolute fringes of society? When someone adopts a worldview that seems completely detached from consensus reality, what is the sequence of thoughts and experiences that led them there? In this episode, I’m joined by the legendary journalist, author, and documentary maker Jon Ronson. For twenty-five years, Jon has been doing the hard work of looking directly at human behaviour that most of us would prefer to avoid. Jon’s career has been defined by his ability to humanise the people we’ve been taught to fear or dismiss. Taken from the full-length episode, here’s a few tasty morsels to chew on today including: ▪️Why we often reward psychopathic traits by making those people our CEOs and political leaders. ▪️What happens when extreme personalities feed off each other, and how do they pull us into their orbit. ▪️How ordinary people drift into ideological bubbles, and what it takes to understand the urge to belong to a tribe. This is a fascinating, thoughtful, and very funny chat with one of the greats. *Links:* ▪️Find out more about Jon here: https://jonronson.com/ *More from Osher:* 🎙 Better Than Yesterday podcast: https://tinyurl.com/BTYpodcast 📬 Sign up to the Better Than Yesterday newsletter: https://makeitbetterthanyesterday.kit.com/7d9d18dcee 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/osher_gunsberg 📖 Books: https://linktr.ee/osher_gunsberg 📺 Story Club on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@storyclublive 🎟️ Story Club tickets: https://linktr.ee/osher_gunsberg

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ACMA admits no advice on gambling ads, calling it a “matter of policy.” #Shorts

ACMA admits no advice on gambling ads, calling it a “matter of policy.”

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Report reveals extent of AI boost to Australian economy

Artificial intelligence could lift productivity in Australia by up to 2.4 per cent and add an extra 44,000 new jobs over the next decade, modelling suggests.

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August 6, 1915: The August Offensive at Gallipoli commences

GALLIPOLI, TURKEY.  — Gallipoli, on the Turkish Aegean coast, marks the site of a long and drawn-out campaign against enemy troops during World War I. The post August 6, 1915: The August Offensive at Gallipoli commences appeared first on VicNews.

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Rob Hosking - The Unspoken Cost Of Staying Silent

In this episode I sit down with Rob Hosking, a former police officer turned motivational speaker. Rob shares his first-hand experience of burnout in the police force, the mental toll of witnessing daily trauma, and how the rigid, hyper-masculine culture around him made vulnerability feel impossible. He speaks candidly about the moment he almost ended his life, the unexpected reason he didn’t, and how he’s now using his experience to help others navigate their struggles. This episode is a raw, honest, and important conversation about the cost of silence, the need for a new definition of masculinity, and why the next generation of men deserves better role models.

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Australia's WORST Billionaires RANKED | Punters Politics

Use Promo Code PUNTERS for 25% OFF Obscura VPN for the first 12 months obscura.com/PUNTERS to get the only two-party VPN that protects your information for $6/month I Ranked Aussie Billionaires By How Much They're Buying Our Democracy — including Gina Rinehart, Clive Palmer, Rupert Murdoch and Andrew Forrest — after getting accused of being biased against conservatives, here is my bias exposed! Download the ranking document on Patreon Join We the PUNTERS on Patreon ▶ https://www.patreon.com/punterspolitics T-shirts 👕 ▶https://www.punterspolitics.com/

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China targets US firms and drone exports after bans

Beijing has slapped controls on exports of drones to the US and restricting dealings with six American entities in response to sanctions imposed by Washington.

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There is a reason we say disappeared, not missing.

There is a reason we say disappeared, not missing. During National Missing Persons Week, Ginny Jones and Kevin Yow Yeh join me to yarn about the work of The Disappeared Project, Australia's first Aboriginal-led organisation walking beside families whose loved ones have been disappeared. Full episode out now. Listen via the link in our bio or wherever you get your podcasts 🎧

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From Crisis To 100 Conversations About Mental Health

Mental health awareness looks different when it's your own child in crisis. Sarah Rosse spent her career helping others navigate mental health emergencies, until October 2023, when her 16-year-old son attempted to take his life. In this episode of Kintsugi Heroes, Sarah shares how the gap between her professional knowledge and her lived reality as a mother shattered her sense of control, how she moved from shame to storytelling, and what she learned about presence, advocacy, and the work of rebuilding. ⚠️ Content advisory: this episode discusses suicide, grief, which some listeners may find distressing. If you need support, you're not alone — help is available: • Lifeline (24/7 crisis support): 13 11 14 · lifeline.org.au Sarah Rosse knows mental health from the inside out. As a human services professional, she spent years supporting others through crisis. But in October 2023, when her 16-year-old son attempted suicide, all her knowledge became useless. The fracture was immediate: shame moved in, and she convinced herself everyone saw her as a terrible mother. The gap between what she could do for her clients and what she could do for her son revealed something she hadn't expected to learn. What changed wasn't her expertise. It was the discovery of what actually matters in a crisis: presence. Sitting with her son in his pain, Sarah realised there was nothing to fix, no intervention to deploy, no professional tool that fit. Just two people being together. That shift led her to journaling, not as brain-dumping but as intentional reflection, which eventually became her memoir framed through the lens of kintsugi philosophy. She also discovered that when she began sharing her story publicly, others reached out to say thank you. Shame, she learned, thrives in silence. Today, Sarah is a memoirist and journaling coach committed to 100 conversations in 12 months about the themes in her book: identity, family, mental health awareness, and what it takes to show up authentically when everything breaks. 🕒 CHAPTERS: 00:00 Shame thrives in silence 01:45 Writing my way through it 05:53 Journal writing benefits 10:57 October 2023 14:04 Shame and the weight of silence 20:35 Presence over fixing 28:28 Professional knowledge meets lived experience 33:31 Navigating the mental health system 37:52 Doing hard things 41:24 What my son needs now 44:32 100 conversations in 12 months 48:27 When people reach out 👍 New here? Subscribe for a new story of resilience every week: https://www.youtube.com/@kintsugiheroes?sub_confirmation=1 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ABOUT KINTSUGI HEROES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Welcome. We're glad you found your way here. Kintsugi Heroes was created from a simple belief: every person has a story worth sharing, and sometimes the story we need to hear arrives exactly when we need it most. Our name comes from the Japanese art of Kintsugi, where broken pottery is repaired with gold. Rather than hiding the cracks, they are honoured as part of the object's history. We believe people are much the same. The experiences that challenge us, break us, shape us, and help us grow are often the very things that connect us to one another. This channel is home to honest conversations about resilience, hope, grief, recovery, courage, love, and what it means to keep moving forward when life doesn't go to plan. Here you'll find six podcast series, each sharing stories through a different lens: • Kintsugi Heroes, hosted by John Milham • Animals & Us, hosted by Natalie Stockdale • Grit Diaries: From Grit to Grace, hosted by Simone Allan and Maryan Bova • From There to Here, hosted by Emma Bellamy-Dodd • Golden Threads: Stories of Disability & Resilience • Pride in Stories, hosted by John Dwyer (launching 31 July 2026) Every story shared here is offered with the hope that it helps someone feel a little less alone. A little more understood. A little more connected. Whether you're navigating a difficult season, supporting someone you love, or simply looking for meaningful conversations, you're welcome here. New episodes are released weekly across our series. If you'd like to help us keep these stories freely available to everyone, you can support our work here: https://www.kintsugiheroes.com.au/donate Thank you for being part of this community. We help people tell the stories they need to share so others can discover the story they need to hear. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CONNECT WITH US ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌐 https://www.kintsugiheroes.com.au ▶️ https://www.youtube.com/@kintsugiheroes 📘 https://www.facebook.com/kintsugiheroes 📸 https://www.instagram.com/kintsugi.heroes 💼 https://www.linkedin.com/company/kintsugi-heroes #KintsugiHeroes #LivedExperience #ResiliencePodcast #StoriesThatMatter #GoldenJoinery #MentalHealth #Motherhood #SuicidePrevention #MemoirWriting #ParentalSupport #AuthenticSelf #BreakingTheStigma

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Why Tea Makes Your Brain Feel Different #psychiatry #ltheanine

This video explains the neuroscience of tea, including L-theanine, EGCG, catechins, inflammation, cognition and brain health. Filmed in the tea plantations of Munnar, Kerala, Dr Sanil Rege explores why tea may do more than simply deliver caffeine. Different types of tea — black, oolong, green and white — vary in harvesting and processing, but many of their proposed health effects are linked to polyphenols, catechins, flavonoids, EGCG and L-theanine. The video covers how tea compounds may influence inflammation, cardiovascular risk, metabolic function, insulin resistance, neuroprotection and cognition. It also explores why L-theanine is of particular interest in neuroscience, including its possible effects on serotonin, dopamine, BDNF, neuroinflammation and NMDA-related mechanisms involved in learning and long-term potentiation.

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