‘People are walking around with really high levels of distress’: Australia’s regional mental health plight Celina Ribeiro
Dr Katherine Graham has been a GP in Horsham for 12 years now. It’s a market town in the Wimmera region, about halfway between Melbourne and Adelaide; one of those larger-sized rural towns where people within a two-hour radius come to do the big shop. It’s surrounded by agriculture: cropping, sheep, cattle.
There are about 20,000 people in Horsham, but tens of thousands more from surrounding areas use the town as a hub for their health care. For those people Horsham does not offer much if their mental health requires care.
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Mount Isa Council in push for University of Queensland engineering campus in town
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Mount Isa relies on its mining industry, despite limited availability to study mining in town.
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Despite the town being known as Australia s mining capital, Mount Isa s City Council has had to plead with major universities to offer related degrees locally.
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The Mount Isa City Council has asked the University of Queensland to establish a campus in town
Mayor Danielle Slade says locals wanting to study mining have to travel at least 1,300 kilometres away
James Cook University runs a similar campus in the city for students studying health degrees like nursing and physiotherapy