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The following links reflect my interest in both medicine and visual arts.

Coffs Harbour Regional Art Gallery
Established in 2001 the Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery hosts a vibrant exhibition program which includes support for local regional artists with their 'featured artists' exhibitions. From December 2007 until January 2008 I was one such featured artist with my Fencepost Series entitled 'Weathering'.

The Wellbeing Manifesto
Many Australians feel that the political system has let them down, and that governments are not responding to their real concerns. We seem to have lost sight of a vision for a better society and to have entrusted our future to wherever the market takes us. This website presents a new manifesto, one that takes as its starting point the belief that governments in Australia should be devoted to improving our individual and social wellbeing. I am a signatory to this manifesto.

Helping the Timorese heal wounds of the mind
Article in The Age, Thursday 28 June 2001 in which I was interviewed as a a doctor working with PRADET (Pyschosocial Recovery and Development in East Timor).

Indices of social risk among first attenders of an emergency mental health service in post-conflict East Timor: an exploratory investigation.
This article was published Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry in 2004. (The article is in Portable Document Format (PDF)).

Austalian Lesbian Medical Association
The Australian Lesbian Medical Association (ALMA) was founded in 1999 to help lesbian doctors, lesbian medical students and their partners. I am the Association's treasurer.

Official Visitors Program
The Official Visitors Program aims to safeguard standards of treatment and care and advocate for the rights and dignity of people being treated under the NSW Mental Health Act 2007. I have been involved in the program since 2004.