Aleisha Orr

1 day ago | sbs.com.au | Aleisha Orr

Key PointsThe Humans of Purpose Academy provides training in digital tech skills for domestic violence survivors. It aims to empower women to upskill and help them become more financially secure. At the same time, changes to the Family Law Act recognise the financial impact of domestic violence on women affected by it. This article contains references to domestic violence. Bronté got married before her 18th birthday and was expected to stay home to take care of the house and family.

5 days ago | mforum.com.au | Aleisha Orr

By Aleisha OrrOne in seven GPs experience it and WA junior doctors report it at moderate-to-high levels – what is causing burnout among doctors and how can it be fixed? It takes a lot to shake Dr Angela Alessandri. She’d previously gone through breast cancer and losing her sister, but after the most stressful year in her clinical paediatric haematology and oncology career, she finally decided she could not continue with her workload as it was.

2 weeks ago | sbs.com.au | Aleisha Orr

Key PointsA committee will oversee an 'inquiry into the recruitment methods and impacts of cults and organised fringe groups'. It will look at groups using techniques that harm people emotionally, psychologically, financially, or physically. Some groups are using coercion techniques and the inquiry will consider whether this should be criminalised. Tore Klevjer has seen the destruction done to the lives of many people who have become part of a cult in Australia.

2 weeks ago | sbs.com.au | Aleisha Orr

When a woman knocked on Geoffrey Horlock's door and told him that her baby brother had been buried in the same grave plot as his own brother, he was more than a little surprised. "I was not sure what to say at first," Horlock says. His brother Andrew had been stillborn in 1960. Horlock was around nine at the time. He recalls his mother telling him about how his brother was taken out of the delivery room in a white sheet and buried in the local cemetery while she was still recovering in hospital.

1 month ago | sbs.com.au | Aleisha Orr

Key PointsThe Eta Aquarids meteor shower began on 19 April and lasts until late May. At its peak, up to 50 meteors streak across the sky each hour. Australia is among the places on Earth where some of the most meteor activity during the Eta Aquarids is visible. Halley's Comet won't pass Earth again until 2061 but thanks to the famous comet stargazers will be treated to a sky show early next week.