Public issues

April 2014

An APS Interest Group volunteer partnershipThe APS Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and Psychology (ATSIPP) Interest Group recently entered into a volunteer supervision partnership with Yalari, a Queensland-based Indigenous organisation which places Aboriginal and Torres Strait...

February 2014

Volunteering is a feature of contemporary life and professional membership organisations are frequently active in this space (see Table 1). The APS has MoUs with organisations such as the Australian Red Cross and the Salvation Army, however, apart from the APS disaster response network (which...

February 2014 | Samantha Smith

Assisting APS Member Groups to build respectful relationships within local communitiesSince the October 2011 signing of the Statement of Commitment to developing an APS Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP), APS Member Groups throughout Australia have been bringing the RAP to life with a range of...

February 2014 | Dr Rob McAlpine

'Psychs on Bikes' is a group of psychologists, psychiatrists and psychiatric nurses who ride motor bikes and spread positive mental health messages, particularly throughout rural and remote Australia.In May 2012 we rode from Perth to Sydney, raising money for rural and remote mental...

February 2014

Stressing the many benefits of psychologyAPS members around the country spread the message about the difference that psychologists can make to the lives of Australians, with a series of diverse events run in November as part of the tenth annual National Psychology Week. Hundreds of events were...

December 2013 | Dr Susie Burke

If 97.1 per cent of climate scientists agree that human behaviour is causing climate change (Cook et al., 2013), why is the public not yet completely on board and demanding policy change and urgent action?Who better to help answer these questions than three of the world’s most experienced...

October 2013

The APS recently provided a submission to the 2013 Senate Inquiry into options for addressing the issue of sexting by minors, which was established in the context of an examination of cyber bullying among young people. The term 'sexting' refers to the creation and transmission of sexual...

October 2013

There’s still time to register an event or public display to celebrate National Psychology Week 2013.National Psychology Week (NPW) is a time for psychologists to show their pride in their profession, and to educate Australians about the role psychology plays in community wellbeing. The...

August 2013

The APS Grant for Intercultural and/or International Projects of up to $10,000 supports innovative projects that have an intercultural and/or international focus, particularly in countries where psychology is an emerging discipline. Dr Elizabeth Newnham MAPS, Post-doctoral Fellow at Harvard...