Public issues

June 2013 | Heather Gridley

The APS recently provided a submission to the Senate Inquiry into Advertising and Promotion of Gambling Services in Sport and followed this by presenting evidence at the hearing for the inquiry. The submission was based on the APS review paper on the psychology of gambling and position statement...

June 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 Angela Ebert MAPS, Murdoch University clinical psychologist...

April 2013 | Dr Michael Carr-Gregg

Every year since 2002 Mission Australia has conducted an annual nationwide survey of young Australians. Last year, the eleventh Youth Survey asked 15,351 young people aged from 15 to 19 to share their perceptions of living in the lucky country (Mission Australia, 2012). As well as their...

April 2013

A new project to develop a service model for a telephone helpline and online counselling and crisis support service run by and for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people has recently been set up by the APS in partnership with the Australian Indigenous Psychologists Association (AIPA). With...

April 2013 | Dr Susie Burke

We’ve just gone through what may well become a typical summer of extreme weather events. Floods, fires, cyclones, thousands of displaced people, hundreds of emergency services personnel working around the clock to restore safety and calm, and others setting up the systems for the months and...

February 2013

APS members across Australia took the ‘Think Well Be Well’ message to their communities through a wide range of events during National Psychology Week 2012. From big community festivals to small workshops, public stalls to information displays, psychologists across Australia ran...

December 2012 | Dr Susie Burke

Early Sunday, a hot day dawns in Perth. Taxi drivers mutter how it’s never this hot this early in Spring. Inside the cavernous Perth Convention Centre, the APS Conference is winding down: exhibitors have packed up, the corridors are empty, voices echo, the complimentary coffee trolley has...

December 2012

The APS Conference forum on the psychological impacts of climate change (see article on previous page) helped shape a meeting at the APS National Office in Melbourne’s CBD a few days later with Chief Climate Commissioner Professor Tim Flannery and the Climate Commission’s senior...

December 2012

For the past two years now, APS members have been given the opportunity at membership renewal time to donate to a fund that provides bursaries for Indigenous postgraduate psychology students in necessitous financial circumstances. Initially funds were raised from the Bendi Lango series of art...