NSW’s sole women’s-only clinic dedicated to trauma ends ‘gamechanging’ focus

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Specialists at Ramsay Clinic Thirroul have reportedly resigned against backdrop of larger shortage of psychiatrists across state

In 2022 Ramsay Healthcare opened Australia’s first women’s-only hospital “dedicated” to trauma-related mental health issues in Wollongong.

Ramsay Clinic Thirroul was supposed to be a “gamechanger” designed specifically to provide women – often survivors of family and sexual violence – the safe environment needed to be able to escape the flight or fight stress response and begin to recover through a program of therapies.

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Labor announces $10m to provide ‘inclusive, culturally safe’ healthcare for LGBTQ+ Australians

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Exclusive: Funding would go towards third-party training for doctors and nurses, which advocates say would remove barriers to treatment

Labor would provide health workers with training to care for LGBTIQA+ Australians in a $10m package to upskill doctors and nurses alongside a new accreditation program, the health minister, Mark Butler, has said.

The election promise, to be announced on Monday, would see Labor contract a training provider to design programs to train healthcare workers to help give “inclusive, culturally safe primary care” for gay, lesbian and gender-diverse Australians.

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Australian academics refuse to attend US conferences for fear of being detained

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‘When academics fear travelling or partnering with US institutions, the impacts ripple through the entire global knowledge ecosystem,’ one says

When Gemma Lucy Smart received an invitation to attend an academic conference in the US, she was excited. But that was before Donald Trump was returned to office.

Now Smart, who has a disability and is queer, has decided it’s too risky to travel to Seattle for the social sciences conference in September.

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Xi Jinping seeks to strengthen economic ties during tour of south-east Asia

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President’s first stop is Vietnam as China urges US to end trade war and return to ‘right path of mutual respect’

The Chinese president, Xi Jinping, will visit Vietnam on Monday as he begins a tour of south-east Asia where he will seek to strengthen ties with neighbouring countries amid an escalating trade war.

Xi will visit Vietnam from Monday before travelling to Malaysia and Cambodia, a high-profile tour that Chinese officials have described as being of “major importance”.

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Russian strikes on northeastern Ukrainian city of Sumy kill 32, in deadliest attack this year – CNN

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  1. Russian strikes on northeastern Ukrainian city of Sumy kill 32, in deadliest attack this year  CNN
  2. Russian Attack on Sumy in Ukraine Kills and Wounds Dozens  The New York Times
  3. Russian missile strike kills 34 in Ukraine's Sumy, Kyiv says  Reuters
  4. Russian missile attack on Sumy during Palm Sunday leaves at least 34 dead, 117 wounded  WBMA
  5. 'Crosses any line of decency' — US Envoy Kellogg condemns Russian attack on Sumy.  The Kyiv Independent
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UK will set ‘high trust bar’ for future Chinese investment after British Steel rescue, minister says – AP News

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  1. UK will set 'high trust bar' for future Chinese investment after British Steel rescue, minister says  AP News
  2. British Steel: Government 'confident' it can secure materials to keep Scunthorpe plant furnaces burning  BBC
  3. Why has the government rescued British Steel - and why is there a race to keep furnaces burning?  Sky News
  4. No 10 ‘confident’ on securing supplies to keep Scunthorpe furnaces burning – UK politics live  The Guardian
  5. China no longer welcome in UK steel sector, minister says  Reuters
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