Hi Tim,

Congratulations on this project and the chance of seed funding!

My personal view is that we, as consumers, should focus on creating just one national association. I say this because (a) it has taken so many years to get just this far, and (b) because it is an enormous effort to get a national association off the ground and so we would…[Read more]

Hi Cherie,

Check out the new page I built this weekend for organising local meetings! http://consumersaustralia.org/the-association/meetings/

I’ve include you on the list (just your initials for now – wasn’t sure if you wanted your name there – let me know if so).

Check the info to help you plan the meeting, and please send through any…[Read more]

Allan,

As always, you add enormous value in helping us to remember both our history as a movement, and the dignity in our diversity. Thank you – I look forward to more of your posts.

I am someone who identifies as proudly mad. I also idetnify as a survivor – it’s a way for me to keep speaking the unspoken realities of trauma.

I use the term…[Read more]

Allan,

As always, you add enormous value in helping us to remember both our history as a movement, and the dignity in our diversity. Thank you – I look forward to more of your posts.

I am someone who identifies as proudly mad. I also identify as a survivor – it’s a way for me to keep speaking the unspoken realities of trauma.

I use the term…[Read more]

Hi Cherie,

I haven’t read the charter – could you post a link to it for us?

I would like to see charters developed and agreed, and a hwole lot more, for the consumer workforce, and for peer workers.

However I would like to see these things developed by consumer or peer associations that are independent from service providers. I work for a…[Read more]

Thanks Alby! Welcome to the site, and have fun taking it all in. We’d love to hear your thoughts on the site, any areas to improve, and any ways in particular that you’d like to get involved…

Cheers, Madmin

Personally I’d like to think that we would definitely comment on things like MHPOD. Nothing about us with us would be a great guiding principle to shape our actions…

Hey Cherie, thank you, and thank you!!

What do people think about us co-drating an agenda in this forum, perhaps along with some suggested guidelines, so people can then just print em and use them to run local meetings, gather consumer ideas, and the share them back in this space? We could create a separate page or forum to share them in if…[Read more]

Hey Cherie, thank you, and thank you!!

What do people think about us co-drating an agenda in this forum, perhaps along with some suggested guidelines, so people can then just print em and use them to run local meetings, gather consumer ideas, and the share them back in this space? We could create a separate page or forum to share them in if…[Read more]

Hey Cherie, thank you, and thank you!!

What do people think about us co-drating an agenda in this forum, perhaps along with some suggested guidelines, so people can then just print em and use them to run local meetings, gather consumer ideas, and the share them back in this space? We could create a separate page or forum to share them in if…[Read more]