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20 June 2026 Pharmacy Code of Conduct doesn’t reflect current practice

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January 30 2026 The chaotic reality of general practice

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10 June 2026 Response to the Pharmacy Board consultation process

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January 16 2026 Leadership in disaster

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October 5 2025 The elves on the shelves of general practice

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February 21 2025 Eight problems in search of one fix (pay GPs less)

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February 28 2025 Stuff I know about doctors’ health

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February 7 2025 I am not your risk management strategy

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April 25 2026 Are there really 3500 GP clinics surviving on bulk billing alone?

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December 16 2025 Managing senseless violence

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September 26 2025 What is it we do exactly?

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January 31 2025 Build a nice healthcare façade and we’ll do the rest

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November 15, 2024. Do we need a Fellowship of Primary Care?

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May 10, 2024. Whining women ought to smile more

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“Lady doctors” are being milked dry

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RUOK? There’s a better question to ask

Stone L and Walsh E June 24, 2023.Staying upright in the swamp

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April 16 2026 Pharmacy, advertising and political clout

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December 12 2025 Seriously, AHPRA, can we just get on with things?

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September 5 2025 Technological glitter and the illusion of science

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May 23, 2024. How low can you go and still call it evidence?  

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April 15 2026 Fact check: Is it becoming too expensive to see a GP?

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December 5 2025 So, what did we unleash exactly?

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August 29 2025 Middle class drift

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July 5, 2024. Everyone has the right to respect, or at least courtesy

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November 1, 2024. Little sick vs big sick

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June 28, 2024. We are all accountable for our performance, patients and communities

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Curly questions to ask MBS

The swamp series with Erin Walsh

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March 18 2026 Carrot-and-stick me, Mark: Australians deserve better

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November 21 2025 Yes, minister?

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May 9 2025 Unleashing the geese

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January 15 2025 Bad orchards: the role of organisations in professional lapses

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October 23 2025 An idiot’s guide to healthcare economics

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February 14 2025 Menopause fixed: all we needed was another item number

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February 13 2026 Becoming a healthcare candidate

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October 11, 2024. More snakes than ladders with AI in general practice

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March 15, 2024. Nurses are ‘battered’? Try being a GP

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August 18, 2023.Why a domestic violence item number won’t work

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Stone L and Walsh E September 8, 2023. It’s a beautiful day in the (pink) swamp

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October 25, 2024. Self-serve medicine

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March 20, 2024. The Emperor’s new clothes and digital mental health policy

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Stone L and Walsh E May 27, 2023.Swamp crocodiles: paperwork and politics

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Stone L and Walsh E August 4, 2023. Robohealth and the tyranny of “evidence”  

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Curly questions to MBS answered

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Stone L and Walsh E 2023.Every system needs a scapegoat

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Want better outcomes? Choose easier patients

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Are we really the parasites of the health system?

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November 27 2025 Why I will not be changing to universal bulk billing

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April 28 2025 Medicare misogyny, smoke and a lot of mirrors

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December 17, 2024. Practice nurses are awesome

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February 4 2026 The people that evidence forgets

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Octpber 23, 2025 Making do with duct tape

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April 8 2025 I love my job but it’s time to go

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December 10, 2024. My GP Manifesto

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September 6, 2024. What’s the impact of removing mental health item numbers?

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February 13, 2024 Measuring value in mental health is nailing jelly to a wall

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September 13, 2024. A funeral is the ultimate audit

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February 23, 2024 What’s a GP worth? Let’s crunch the numbers

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Stone L and Walsh E April 29, 2023.Down here in the swamp, we need help

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August 9, 2024. The importance of rat cunning in general practice

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October 20, 2023. Cracking the code for complexity

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July 19, 2024. I will hold other clinicians accountable for harms to my patients

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Are we just privileging the privileged

The pharmacy guild’s uterus stunt shows everything that’s wrong with pharmacist prescribing, April 26, 2026

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When mental health unravels, are digital self-help tools a match for human connection? May 29, 2024

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The fraught quest for justice by doctors sexually harassed and abused by other doctors, January 26, 2026

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What happens to Maria? Why you can’t measure GPs using CPD audits, March 4, 2024

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“Mistaken and misguided”doctors at risk of suicide under AHPRA’s name-and-shame rules, top GP warns, April 1, 2026

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Being the doctor-parent of a sick child

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Stone L, King D, Pearson LM (2026) Navigating invisible illness: Medically unexplained symptoms and the power of narratives Australian Journal of General Practice 55 (6)

Stone L, Olsen A. Illness uncertainty and risk management for people with cancer. Australian Journal of General Practice. 2022 May 1;51(5):321-6.

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Stone L. 2020 General practice, COVID-19 and living with uncertainty. Australian journal of general practice.  

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Stone L. 2014 Blame, shame and hopelessness: medically unexplained symptoms and the "heartsink" experience. Australian Family Physician. 43 (4) 191-195

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Stone L 2008 Reasoning for registrars – an overview for supervisors and medical educators Australian Family Physician 37 (8) 650-653  

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Medically unexplained illness articles

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Stone L 2015 Managing medically unexplained illness in general practice Australian Family Physician 44(9):624-629  

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Stone L 2011 Explaining the unexplainable: Crafting explanatory frameworks for medically unexplained symptoms Australian Family Physician 40 (6) 440-444  

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Stone L 2006 Navigating through the swampy lowlands: Dealing with the patient when the diagnosis is unclear Australian Family Physician 35 (12) 991-993  

Stone L. 2020 Coping during a pandemic. Aust J Gen Pract 49 Suppl 19. 2

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Su WM, Stone L. 2020 Adult survivors of childhood trauma: Complex trauma, complex needs. Australian Journal of General Practice. Jul 1;49(7):423-30  

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Stone L and Gordon J. 2013 A is for aphorism: 'Wherever the art of medicine is loved there is also a love of humanity'. Australian Family Physician 42 (11) 824-825.

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Stone L and Clarke D 2007 Somatising disorders - Untangling the pathology Australian Family Physician 36 (4) 193-288  

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Medical education

Mental health articles

Mental health articles

What is general practice?

Doctors’ health articles

Stone L, Waldron E, Nowak H. 2020 Making a good mental health diagnosis. Australian Journal for General Practitioners. 49:797-802.

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Stone L and Waldron R 2019 Great Expectations and e-mental health: the role of literacy in mediating access to mental health care. Australian Journal of General Practice Volume 48, Issue 7 474-478  

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Stone L 2012 On botany and gardening: diagnosis and uncertainty in the GP consultation. Australian Family Physician 41(10) 796-798  

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Clarke D and Stone L 2007 Adjusting to illness and other major life events - How can GPs help? Australian Family Physician 36 (4) 193-288  

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Other articles

Medically unexplained illness articles

Medical education

Mental health articles

Mental health articles

Primary care and general practice?

Doctors’ health articles

Other articles

April 7 2026 Sexual harassment in medicine: healing global medical cultures

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July 7 2025 Strangling the poor in red tape: the role of administrative harms

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March 27, 2023. Mental health generalists: an endangered species becoming extinct

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 2019. Caring for a sick child: the bigger picture  

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May 20, 2024. Are GPs ”reluctant”to prescribe digital mental health services?

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March 20, 2023. Mental health generalism: the invisible workforce

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2018. Prestige: the tyranny of the hierarchy of disease   

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December 5 2022 Measuring GP outcomes: a crisis of validity and meaning

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January 23, 2023. Exploring how young people and their GPs experience mental health care in the ACT  

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 2018. Beyond zero tolerance: sexual abuse in medicine   

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December 2, 2024. Redistributing trust: professionalism, policy and expanding scope of practice in primary care 

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June 3, 2024. GPs need more evidence that digital mental health services work before prescribing them

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September 5. 2022. General practice: the liquid in the mental health system

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May 27, 2024. Are Digital mental health services cost effective and safe?   

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October 16, 2023. Does “Unleashing the power of the health workforce” lead to efficiency, effectiveness or anarchy

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October 24, 2022. Are doctors really the parasites of the healthcare system?

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2019. Doctor-parent of a sick child: challenges and practical strategies    

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Sexual harassment

Sexual harassment

Medically unexplained illness articles

Medical education

Stone L. Bandaging our own wounds: how do we support each other when a colleague dies by suicide?. British journal of general practice. 2022 Aug 1;72(721):390-.  

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Stone L. 2020 Trying to carve nature at its joints: respecting the complexity of psychiatric diagnosis British Journal of General Practice 70 (699): 504.  

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Mental health articles

Mental health articles

What is general practice?

Doctors’ health articles

Stone L Un (en) titled British Journal of General Practice 2021: 71 (713), 563-563

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Other articles

Stone L 2020 Rationing the milk of human kindness: the fable of The Dun Cow British Journal of General Practice 70 (698): 456.   

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Stone L No, we are not OK British Journal of General Practice 2021: 71 (712), 511-511  

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Stone, Louise. 2024 Normalising exploitation. British Journal of General Practice 74.739 81-82.  Stone L. Bandaging our own wounds: how do we support each other when a colleague dies by suicide?. British journal of general practice. 2022 Aug 1;72(721):390-.  

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Other peer reviewed journal articles  

Stone L, Price K, Barrett M, Cahill M, Walsh E. (2025) ‘I love my job, but it’s time to go’: wellbeing triggers for retirement in Australian female general practitioners. Australian Health Review 49, AH25170.

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Stone L 2018 Disease prestige and the hierarchy of suffering Medical Journal of Australia 208 (2): 60- 62   

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Stone L. 2013 Making sense of medically unexplained symptoms in general practice: a grounded theory study. Mental Health in Family Medicine. 10(2):101-11.  

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Medically unexplained illness articles

Waldron Elizabeth, Solonsch Lucy, Stone Louise 2023 Dialectics, power dynamics, and undercurrents of meaning: using psychotherapeutic strategies in primary care with trans and gender-diverse clients. Australian Journal of Primary Health 29, 142-147 

Shorthouse M, Stone L. 2018 Inequity amplified: climate change, the Australian farmer, and mental health. Medical Journal of Australia.;209(4):156-7.  

Stone L, Gordon J 2014 Learning to provide patient-centered care with patients with medically unexplained symptoms: a grounded theory study in Australian general practice. The International Journal of Person-Centered Medicine Vol 4, No 3, 173-179.  

 

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Stone L 2012 Being botanist and a gardener: using diagnostic frameworks in general practice patients with medically unexplained symptoms Australian Journal of Primary Health Care 19, 90-973  

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Medical education

Mental health articles

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Stone L 2018 Schrodinger’s disease and the ethics of (non) diagnosis: the problem of medically unexplained symptoms in contemporary medical practice The American Journal of Bioethics May, 18 (5) 18-20  

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Stone L. 2014 Mixed emotional and physical symptoms in general practice: what diagnoses do GPs use to describe them? Primary Health Care Research & Development. 16 (2), 207-214.  

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Mental health articles

General practice

Sexual harassment

Doctors’ health articles

Other articles

Stone L 2018 Schrodinger’s disease and the ethics of (non) diagnosis: the problem of medically unexplained symptoms in contemporary medical practice The American Journal of Bioethics May, 18 (5) 18-20  

Stone L, Douglas K and Phillips C 2019 Sexual assault and harassment of doctors, by doctors: a qualitative study. Medical Education. 53(8):833-43  

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Stone L, Phillips C, Douglas KA. 2020 With the best will in the world: How benevolent sexism shapes medical careers. Medical Education. Feb;54(2):94-7.  

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Stone L. 2014 Managing the consultation with patients with medically unexplained symptoms: a grounded theory study of supervisors and registrars in general practice. BMC Family Practice. 15:192  

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Reports and guidelines   

Phillips C, Stone L and Andersen K 2023 World Health Organisation Self-care competency framework - volume 1: global competency standards for health and care workers to support people’s self-care   

Phillips C, Stone L and Andersen K 2023 World Health Organisation Self-care competency framework - volume 2: knowledge guide for health and care workers to support people’s self-care   

Phillips C, Stone L and Andersen K 2023 World Health Organisation Self-care competency framework - volume 3:  curriculum guide for health and care workers to support people’s self-care   

Books and book chapters   

Stone L, Phillips C, Waldron E, Searle R, Douglas K Eds 2026 Sexual harassment between doctors: Healing medical cultures around the world Cambridge University Press   

Stone L and Hooker C 2017. What does it mean when the doctor says there’s “nothing wrong”? in Farkas C (Ed) Psychosomatic illness in popular culture. Routledge, Abingdon Oxfordshire   

McDermott F, Huggert D, Blashki G, Stone L, Epstein M et al 2012. The active participants in mental health services in Meadows G, Farhall, J Fossey E, Grigg, M McDermott, Singh, B (Eds) Mental health in Australia. Oxford University Press, South Melbourne.    

 

Guest Podcasts

2023 Doctorama General Practice and the sexual harms project

2020 Generally Speaking Borderline personality disorder

2020 Just a GP podcast  A living library of resources with Dr Louise Stone

2018 MJA Podcasts Episode 7: Disease prestige with A/Prof Louise Stone

2017 Royal College of Physicians podcasts Dealing with uncertainty www.racp.edu.au/pomegranate/View/episode-25-dealing-with-uncertainty-part1 www.racp.edu.au/pomegranate/View/episode-26-dealing-with-uncertaintypart-2

RVTS4GPs Research in General Practice  moregped.libsyn.com/research-in-general-prac5ce

Australian Family Physician Diagnosis and uncertainty in GP www.racgp.org.au/media/750419/201210stone.mp3

Television and radio

2025 SBS Insight: Healthcare’s silver squeeze

Role as GP expert in this program, and consultation in the planning and scripting    

www.sbs.com.au/news/insight/tvepisode/mind-versus-body

2016 SBS Insight: Mind vs Body

Role as GP expert in this program, and consultation in the planning and scripting    

www.sbs.com.au/news/insight/tvepisode/mind-versus-body

2015 SBS The Feed: Medical Orphans

Role as GP expert in this program, and consultation in the planning and scripting  www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/397804099647/medical-orphans-the-feed

2018 Radio National Life Matters Is there a social hierarchy of disease?   www.abc.net.au/radiona5onal/programs/lifemaTers/is-there-a-social-hierarchy-for-diseases/9421840

Interviews on ABC Canberra, ABC Adelaide, ABC National, WIN News and Radio Adelaide on mental health and General Practice.