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[Link] Police officer who assaulted teenager spared jall because of own trauma at work

Read: 1/3/2022 www.abc.net.au

Andrew Allan Jaunay was handed a three-month suspended sentence with a year-long good behaviour bond for the 2013 assault of then-17-year-old Matthew Odgers. Jaunay was with other police officers when they stopped and searched Mr Odgers in a Whyalla Stuart street in October of that year.

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[Link] After a Person Accidentally Kills Someone, How Do They Heal and Move On?

Read: 11/11/2021 www.vice.com

When news broke that Alec Baldwin shot and killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins with a prop gun on a movie set, many were quick to litigate Baldwin’s level of responsibility and search for someone to blame.

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[Link] This Couple Survived the Unite the Right Car Attack. The Trauma Tore Them Apart.

Read: 11/11/2021 www.vice.com

On the day of the violent “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, Marcus Martin wore his red-and-white Jordans.

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[Link] Now Married, Japan’s Ex-Princess Mako to Move from Palace to a One-Bedroom in New York

Read: 26/10/2021 www.vice.com

Four years after publicly announcing their engagement, former Princess Mako of Japan has officially tied the knot with her college sweetheart, Kei Komuro.

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[Link] Pentagon burn survivors are thankful for life, though pain endures

Read: 23/9/2021 www.washingtonpost.com

Four severe burn survivors of the Pentagon attack, interviewed by The Washington Post for this story, have each charted a distinct course, holding up against seizing pain, physical limitations and debilitating trauma. They have anguished. They have celebrated. They have marked 20 years.

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[Link] Man who stabbed nurse at Adelaide hospital to spend another 10 months in mental health facility

Read: 27/8/2021 www.abc.net.au

Trent Jason Miller was arrested in June 2019, and charged with causing serious harm to the Lyell McEwin Hospital nurse. He was found not guilty of harm, due to mental incompetence, earlier this year.

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[Link] $40m psychedelic medicine institute launches in Melbourne

Read: 30/7/2021 www.smh.com.au

A world-first global research institute that aims to develop new pharmaceutical-grade psychedelic medicine to treat mental health disorders is launching in Melbourne on Friday.

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