At the World Innovation Summit for Health held late last year in Qatar, the need to help mentally-ill people was highlighted and Australian innovations were commended as examples of best practice. Professor Vikram Patel from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and co-chair of the mental health panel discussion noted that “suicide alone...

The Kids Helpline is an Australian confidential online and telephone counselling service aimed at children and young adults aged between 5 and 25 and each year receive a staggering 460,000 telephone calls from lonely and unhappy kids. Recently, Kids Helpline general manager Wendy Protheroe revealed that of these 460,000 calls over 100,000 of them were...