News & analysis

14 November 2025

Securing the future: Addressing the psychiatry workforce crisis

Leading psychiatrists from across Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia have joined senior public healt...

12 November 2025

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

Psychiatrists are urging federal, state and territory governments to act on the recommendations of a...

06 November 2025

President's update

Every now and then, I find myself asking: What really gives meaning to the work that we do, as psych...

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...

03 November 2025

RANZCP 2026 awards program: Deadline extended for select awards

Apply for research funding, prizes and honours, or nominate and acknowledge an outstanding colleague...

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...

30 October 2025

From the President October 2025

Another month has come to a close and another edition of Psyche has hit your inbox. Today, before yo...

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...

23 October 2025

Psychiatrists welcome WA’s carded play move, urge national action on gambling harm

Psychiatrists have welcomed the Western Australian Government’s introduction of mandatory carded pla...

21 October 2025

2025 Psychiatry Interest Forum facilitated networking activity

This year’s event was held at the University of Tasmania and University of New Castle/New England an...

21 October 2025

RANZCP South Australia Branch hosted its 66th annual Barton Pope Lecture

In recognition of Mental Health Month, the RANZCP South Australia Branch hosted its 66th annual Bart...

17 October 2025

President’s update

Over the past decade, our College has quietly but consistently strengthened its international presen...