Melbourne Writers Festival - Are We All Ok?

How can we safeguard our mental wellbeing amidst incessant uncertainty, anxiety and isolation wrought by the pandemic, lockdowns and natural disasters? Is there ambition to reshape a mental health system in which out-of-pocket costs exclude so many? And what possibilities lie within First Nations methodologies for improving mental health in young people?

Join Antoinette Lattouf, journalist and Gidget Foundation ambassador; Sarah Krasnostein, author of the recent Quarterly Essay Not Waving, Drowning: Mental Illness and Vulnerability in Australia; Rick Morton, journalist and author of My Year of Living Vulnerably; and Cammi Murrup-Stewart, an Aboriginal academic with close ties to Wurundjeri Country, and a social and emotional wellbeing researcher, consider the path forward, with Astrid Edwards (The Garret).