Public issues

October 2012

Vickie Hovane is a graduate member of the Australian Indigenous Psychologists Association from Broome in the Kimberley region and has family links to the Yinjibarndi, Gooniyandi and Kitja groups in WA. Over the past 27 years, Vickie has advocated and promoted Indigenous social justice in legal...

October 2012 | Dr Christopher Sonn

Dr Christopher Sonn MAPS is an Associate Professor at Victoria University, where his research interests are the development of sense of community, social identity, immigration and intergroup relations. These areas reflect themes in his own journey as an immigrant to Australia and as a person who...

August 2012

Dr Jan Smith MAPS, a clinical child psychologist and longstanding APS member, recently became the second oldest woman to climb Mount Everest at age 68. Succeeding in her third attempt to ascend the world's highest mountain, Jan reached the 8,848-metre summit just before dawn on 27 May 2012...

August 2012

In Aotearoa New Zealand, as in Australia, the nation’s first peoples were dispossessed through early white settlement, and are now among the most disadvantaged and are over-represented in health, mental health, incarceration and unemployment statistics. This despite the Treaty of Waitangi...

August 2012

11–17 November 2012Once a year APS members have a chance to put psychology centre stage with National Psychology Week (NPW), the annual public awareness campaign celebrating the many ways psychologists enhance the health and wellbeing of Australians. To be held from 11 to 17 November this...

June 2012

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. Associate Professors Linda Gilmore MAPS and Marilyn Campbell...

June 2012 | Emeritus Professor Graeme Halford

Emeritus Professor Graeme Halford FAPS FASSA of the University of Queensland has been active in the climate change area since 1989, when he convened a workshop on human dimensions of climate change for the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. Since then he has participated on the...

June 2012

The National Office Public Interest team regularly prepares submissions to government inquiries, using psychological knowledge to advocate in the interest of community wellbeing. Recently, the APS has made three such submissions, and was subsequently invited to give evidence in person by each of...

February 2012

Professor Pat Dudgeon FAPS has been a tireless advocate for the mental health and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Currently a Research Fellow at the School of Indigenous Studies, University of Western Australia, Pat has been a member of the APS for over 30 years and was...