Music month: The pain behind the music genius of Reuben Winter
7 May, 2021 08:00 PM
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The first words I said to him were f off . I was coming off-stage at an all-ages venue, all juiced on what my 14-year-old self thought was a groundbreaking rock performance. So when an older kid gave me a congratulatory, Nice set, I replied it with a misguided attempt at playing it cool. F off, I said, with woeful false bashfulness.
The older kid walked away. He was slightly elfish and wore a Disneyland cardigan that set him apart from the crowd of wannabe punks in their mum s borrowed denim. As I put my guitar away, a friend grabbed my shoulder, Dude, that was Reuben Winter.
Warning: This story contains references to suicide and rape, and may be triggering for some readers.
A Kiwi woman advocating on behalf of sexual violence survivors says eight years on after her own assault, she still carries mental and physical trauma.
Laura Eustace, 25, today uses social media to have really hard conversations in a hope to support others through her own experience. Throughout my life, there has been a lot of trauma I have gone through I felt no one really talked about, Eustace tells Newshub. It s become a passion project for me to talk about these things because for a very long time I felt very ashamed.
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Young farmworkers continue to be disproportionately represented in farm suicide figures despite higher awareness of mental health issues. A
Stuff investigation by NADINE PORTER considers whether the isolation of farm life can exacerbate problems in vulnerable young men. By the time Mark (not his real name) attempted to end his life, his farm job had all but consumed him. Grafting 15 hours most days on an isolated West Coast property as a dairy farm manager and then as a contract milker, he had little time to deal with the thoughts in his head. Employing staff, handling costs and organising day to day management of the farm was part of the plan to get ahead financially, but it also led to him becoming self-absorbed and distant from his wife and children.
Jarryd Hayne will spend at least three years and eight months in jail. (file pic)
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A jury in March found Hayne guilty of two counts of aggravated sexual assault which the victim said left her feeling dirty, scared and ashamed .
Hayne must serve a minimum of three years and eight months.
In handing down her sentence, District Court Judge Helen Syme said she found that Hayne was fully aware that the victim was not consenting and went ahead anyway. The reliability and honesty of the victim s evidence was tested at length and in my view, her reliability was not in doubt. She said no several times, Judge Syme said.