News & analysis

12 November 2025

Psychiatrists back Productivity Commission’s call to fix the mental health plan and system

21 January 2026

Vale Professor The Honourable Dame Marie Bashir

The RANZCP mourns the passing of Professor The Honourable Dame Marie Bashir AD CVO, a distinguished ...

22 December 2025

Calm, considered and person-centred decisions needed on puberty blockers

Australian and New Zealand governments must take a careful, clinically grounded approach to decision...

17 December 2025

RANZCP welcomes extension of proven psychiatry training program for veterans in budget update

The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) has welcomed the Department o...

25 November 2025

Another day, another damning report: Emergency departments buckle under mental health crisis

Imagine waiting almost a full day in a chaotic emergency department while experiencing a mental heal...

21 November 2025

ADHD care: A critical issue requiring calm, clinically led reform, psychiatrists say

The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) has called for calm, clinical...

21 November 2025

Psychiatrists release new position statement on ADHD

The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP), has today released a new Pos...

20 November 2025

Puberty blocker pause could harm vulnerable young people, psychiatrists say

06 November 2025

Record mental health ED wait times a symptom of system-wide failure

The AMA’s latest report confirms what frontline psychiatrists have known for years: Australia’s ment...

31 October 2025

Health and legal experts unite for NT’s youth incarceration crisis

Leading mental health and medical experts gathered with lawyers, Aboriginal -controlled, and communi...

29 October 2025

SA psychiatrists back GP-led ADHD diagnosis, stress the importance of access to specialist care

South Australian psychiatrists say enabling GPs to diagnose attention deficit hyperactivity disorder...