Public issues

August 2021

The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse revealed the shocking extent of institutional child sexual abuse (CSA) in Australia. Across tens of thousands of pages, 409 recommendations were made in the aim of preventing CSA and making institutions safer for children.One...

May 2021 | Cover feature by Dr Lisa J. Warren MAPS

In recent years, coercive control has received widespread media attention thanks to the work of advocates pushing for social and legal reform to address the harms caused by the persistent nature of partner violence. This push is reminiscent of the pressure applied for reform by Hollywood in the...

October 2019 | 10–16 November

Psychology and social justice issuesWhat can we learn from young people?In Australia and around the world there has been an unprecedented level of attention on the climate crisis in the wake of the global School Strike 4 Climate. During Psychology Week 2019, the APS will explore the concerns and...

August 2019 | What can we learn from young people?

Psychology and social justice issuesPsychology Week is an opportunity for the APS and its members to demystify and communicate the depth, breadth and many benefits of psychology to the Australians who benefit from our expertise, training and research every day, in almost every setting &ndash...

December 2018 | Harry Lovelock and Dr Lyn O’Grady MAPS

 “Mr Speaker, silenced voices. Muffled cries in the darkness. Unacknowledged tears. The tyranny of invisible suffering. The never heard pleas of tortured souls bewildered by an indifference to the unthinkable theft of their innocence.” Prime Minister Scott Morrison spoke...

August 2018

President’s Initiative: Bringing Psychology to the PublicThis year’s President’s Initiative, ‘Bringing Psychology to the Public’, arose out of a recognition by APS President, Anthony Cichello, that one of the key contributions the APS can make is to inform and...

June 2018 | Carolina Barreto MAPS

The long-awaited day of the ceasefire finally came. For some Colombian citizens, 26 September 2016 brought the first day of their lives without the sound of gunfire. On this day they hear nothing but the sound of birds, the rushing river, the wind through the trees and the mooing of cows. An...

June 2018 | Professor Patricia Dudgeon FAPS and Tanja Hirvonen MAP

We wish to acknowledge the custodians of each of the lands that we work on, and pay our respects to our Elders past, present and emerging. We pay respects to our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health practitioners who are working with our people.Professor Pat Dudgeon is from the Bardi...

April 2018 | Professor Lyn Littlefield OAM FAPS, Debbie Hsu MAPS

As the leading organisation for psychologists in Australia, the APS quite rightly focuses most of its efforts on supporting the profession and discipline of psychology in this country. However, we are also a member of the international psychology community, and have a role to play on the world...