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Cover deb: Jan Brady

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Political Notebook:  San Francisco GOP event to ’detangle’ trans youth issues

With transgender issues a flashpoint in the country’s political discourse, as statehouses rollback rights for trans people, especially youth, the San Francisco Republican Party is taking a more active role in the debate

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Erin Smith

Dismal and Desolate.

An abandoned house, open to the elements of winter.

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Bratmobile, 1992

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Erin Smith, associate professor in Disaster and Emergency Response at Edith Cowan University, interviewed 60 volunteer firefighters who had fought in the Black Summer bushfires in Victoria and NSW. Every volunteer she spoke to had suffered profound impacts on their mental health and wellbeing. "Some had fleeting symptoms," Dr Smith said, "but some still had impacts 12 months down the track, which significantly affected their personal lives and their paid employment." She says while support systems are in place, agencies need to strengthen local level peer support, and not rely on pamphlets and Employee Assistance Programs. "I think that it is just incredibly sad to see this exodus of volunteers because they don't feel valued. And it's something that we can rectify quite easily by putting in support services that actually work and meet the needs of volunteers," Dr Smith said.

‘Frustrated volunteer firefighters ditch RFS brigades for independent 'mozzie' teams’, ABC

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Bratmobile in Spin Magazine

New York City, May 7 1994