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Afternoons
Afternoons

ABC News

time2 days ago

  • Health
  • ABC News

Afternoons

On Afternoons today: More and more research is pointing to the benefits of exercise for cancer patients but is that message being passed on? According to research from Edith Cowan University in Perth, less than half of the healthcare professionals surveyed in a study were giving exercise guidance to patients. Postdoctoral Research Fellow Mary Kennedy discusses the findings. Some DJ's say night clubbers are not hitting the dance floor like they once did. Triple J Hack Reporter Jackson Worthington follows up the story. School holidays sound like fun but for many parents they are an added source of stress. UNSW Associate Professor Jane Kohlhoff explains why. Dr Ann's Secret Lives will see her get up close and personal with some elusive and often dangerous wildlife. She chats about some of her memorable encounters. The iconic silver bus at the centre of the Oscar-winning 1994 Australian film The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert has been found and is in need of a major makeover. The bus was thought to have been lost for more than 25 years before it was discovered on a rural property in New South Wales. Paul Rees is the Head of Museums at the History Trust of South Australia and chats about plans for the bus from here.

$80,000 Grant Helps Put ECU On National Arts Map
$80,000 Grant Helps Put ECU On National Arts Map

Scoop

time3 days ago

  • Entertainment
  • Scoop

$80,000 Grant Helps Put ECU On National Arts Map

Edith Cowan University (ECU) is one of three national galleries awarded a prestigious Copyright Agency Partnerships (CAP) grant, enabling a nationally recognised artist to showcase their work in the heart of Perth at the new ECU City campus public gallery. ECU City opens in semester one of 2026 as the centrepiece of the Perth City Deal, a collaboration between the Australian Government, Western Australian Government and ECU, to deliver a world-class university to the heart of Perth. The highly competitive Copyright Agency Partnerships grant supports mid-career and established visual artists to develop and present new work in partnership with leading art galleries and cultural organisations around Australia. The public gallery at ECU City will present a commissioned artist's work in 2027, with two other Copyright Agency Partnerships exhibitions at UNSW Galleries in Sydney (2026) and Gertrude Contemporary in Melbourne (2028). A bold cultural vision Clothilde Bullen OAM, Manager, Art, Culture and Collections at ECU, an acclaimed Wardandi and Badimaya curator, writer and arts advocate, said she was thrilled to see ECU selected as a CAP partner. 'This investment in the University's gallery program helps elevate the role ECU is playing in transforming Perth's cultural landscape, supporting bold, innovative artistic practice that resonates with diverse communities and speaks to contemporary life,' she said. 'As a university, we're deeply committed to access, equity and creativity and this CAP commission will provide vital opportunities for emerging artists and students to connect with the selected artist, research their practice, and to see first-hand what best practice in curatorial and exhibition programming can be,' she said. Creative industries at the heart of Perth The Copyright Agency Partnerships grant is supported by ECU's School of Arts and Humanities Creative Humanities program, which includes Visual Arts, Design and Screen Production. ECU Associate Dean Creative Humanities Professor Katya Johanson said the opportunity to bring a renowned artist to exhibit in ECU's public gallery and work alongside emerging artists in ECU's studio offered fantastic benefits to the arts world. 'It will help expand students' understanding of the arts ecology, the work that goes into exhibition, and what it takes to tour artwork,' she said.

Dan died six weeks after our wedding. I had no idea he was struggling
Dan died six weeks after our wedding. I had no idea he was struggling

Sydney Morning Herald

time3 days ago

  • General
  • Sydney Morning Herald

Dan died six weeks after our wedding. I had no idea he was struggling

We all know we're going to lose our life partner one day. If you've ever pictured it, your brain has probably aged you as nonagenarians or centenarians, having enjoyed an extraordinary 60 to 70 years of laughter and love. To imagine anything less is too painful. Yet, according to the last census, many Australians experience this heartbreak at a time when peers are still raising families and building lives. The data shows 55,000 Australians under the age of 55 are widowed, 18,000 of them younger than 45. And of the 1 million-plus Australians who are widowed, eight out of 10 are female. The challenges of young widowhood include financial insecurity and social isolation. Researchers at Edith Cowan University found widows are also at a heightened risk of poor adjustment, with two-thirds of respondents surveyed reporting decreased functioning and high rates of psychological distress. What does it take to start over without your partner? Three women share their stories. 'My husband died six weeks after our wedding': Rebecca Adams, 45 'Daniel was the sort of person people fell in love with as soon as they met him. He was wickedly funny, but because he was also so kind, he always looked for the best in others. We met online in 2011, and when he proposed just shy of our one-year anniversary, I couldn't say yes fast enough. We were both in our early 30s and knew we'd each found 'our person'. We married in June 2013; Dan died of suicide just six weeks later. I didn't know how deeply Dan was struggling; he protected everyone who knew and loved him from that, so his death came as a huge shock. I was still going through the process of taking my marriage certificate around and changing my name on various documents. But very quickly I had to pivot to the process of carrying a death certificate and organising a funeral. The trauma and pain of losing Dan were all-consuming, and being 33, I honestly believed I'd lost my only shot at happiness and having children. When we think of widows, we tend to think of older women – I only knew one other widow at the time, and she was in her 90s, so I felt alone. It felt like everyone I knew was either getting married or having children, so they couldn't quite understand or support me in the way that I needed. When I found a Facebook group dedicated to connecting younger women who'd lost their partners, I realised how helpful it was for me to meet up with others who truly understood what I was going through. In 2016, I launched First Light Widowed Support, a peer-support model of care – whether it be catch-up programs, an online forum, speaking events or resources – to help others find hope, inspiration and understanding through their journey.

Dan died six weeks after our wedding. I had no idea he was struggling
Dan died six weeks after our wedding. I had no idea he was struggling

The Age

time3 days ago

  • General
  • The Age

Dan died six weeks after our wedding. I had no idea he was struggling

We all know we're going to lose our life partner one day. If you've ever pictured it, your brain has probably aged you as nonagenarians or centenarians, having enjoyed an extraordinary 60 to 70 years of laughter and love. To imagine anything less is too painful. Yet, according to the last census, many Australians experience this heartbreak at a time when peers are still raising families and building lives. The data shows 55,000 Australians under the age of 55 are widowed, 18,000 of them younger than 45. And of the 1 million-plus Australians who are widowed, eight out of 10 are female. The challenges of young widowhood include financial insecurity and social isolation. Researchers at Edith Cowan University found widows are also at a heightened risk of poor adjustment, with two-thirds of respondents surveyed reporting decreased functioning and high rates of psychological distress. What does it take to start over without your partner? Three women share their stories. 'My husband died six weeks after our wedding': Rebecca Adams, 45 'Daniel was the sort of person people fell in love with as soon as they met him. He was wickedly funny, but because he was also so kind, he always looked for the best in others. We met online in 2011, and when he proposed just shy of our one-year anniversary, I couldn't say yes fast enough. We were both in our early 30s and knew we'd each found 'our person'. We married in June 2013; Dan died of suicide just six weeks later. I didn't know how deeply Dan was struggling; he protected everyone who knew and loved him from that, so his death came as a huge shock. I was still going through the process of taking my marriage certificate around and changing my name on various documents. But very quickly I had to pivot to the process of carrying a death certificate and organising a funeral. The trauma and pain of losing Dan were all-consuming, and being 33, I honestly believed I'd lost my only shot at happiness and having children. When we think of widows, we tend to think of older women – I only knew one other widow at the time, and she was in her 90s, so I felt alone. It felt like everyone I knew was either getting married or having children, so they couldn't quite understand or support me in the way that I needed. When I found a Facebook group dedicated to connecting younger women who'd lost their partners, I realised how helpful it was for me to meet up with others who truly understood what I was going through. In 2016, I launched First Light Widowed Support, a peer-support model of care – whether it be catch-up programs, an online forum, speaking events or resources – to help others find hope, inspiration and understanding through their journey.

How embracing 'moments of pause' can help us when we're bored
How embracing 'moments of pause' can help us when we're bored

ABC News

time13-07-2025

  • Health
  • ABC News

How embracing 'moments of pause' can help us when we're bored

Are you OK with boredom? You know those moments when time grinds to a halt, and you're fighting off restlessness? Before you reach for your phone to scroll or check an email, it's worth considering the benefits of sitting with it. What we do with this feeling is important, according to Michelle Kennedy, a mental health researcher on Kabi Kabi lands, on the Sunshine Coast. "Society has almost conditioned us that it's indulgent to be bored," she says. "[But] eliminating the state of boredom deprives us of a simple and natural way to reset our nervous system." So how can we embrace boredom, and what are some of the other benefits of doing so? Officially, boredom is defined as difficulty maintaining attention or interest in a current activity. Dr Kennedy says the fast-paced world we live in means some of us may not be allowing ourselves to fully experience moments of boredom. "It's so overstimulated, we are taking in so much information," she says. "Say we finish a task earlier than we anticipate, rather than just sitting there allowing us just to be in that moment, often we go 'Ok what else can I do to fill this space?' "[Or] you're watching a movie and all of a sudden it hits a low spot [and] you're going 'OK, this isn't really capturing my attention', so then your attention is turned to other things." Mandie Shean says our obsession with technology is exacerbating the situation. The adjunct lecturer in education at Edith Cowan University believes some of us are not good at handling feelings "of being uncomfortable". Dr Kennedy says reframing these moments of boredom as "pauses" could help us incorporate them into our day in a positive way. "Embracing that moment, and … just making time for that pause," she says. "Let's all take the dog for a walk or just sit out the back and have a chat. She says "starting small" will help us understand the benefits and then to gradually build more of that space into our day. Dr Kennedy says as adults we are often juggling work and family life. So if we have time between activities, we may be on our screens constantly organising, updating, or scrolling to simply stay occupied. "What we're doing is we're overloading our neural pathways," Dr Kennedy says. "When that nervous system is activated for too long … our system becomes overwhelmed. "So, it keeps us in this heightened state of arousal, which, long term can develop those early symptoms of anxiety." Dragan Rangelov, a psychology and cognitive neuroscience lecturer from Swinburne University of Technology says allowing ourselves to be bored (and not on screens) may reduce the activation of our sympathetic nervous system and "produce overall greater wellbeing". "It kind of flushes out this sort of sensory overload and possible negative consequences of it," Dr Rangelov says. Our experts say there are a few ways we can let ourselves experience boredom. Dr Rangelov says one method is mindfulness training or simply "sitting there and soaking the boredom in". "Mindfulness is essentially just focusing on yourself," he says. "There's mindfulness about your physical sort of sensations, how your breath is looking, what's your heartbeat? "There's also mindfulness about your psychological processes, whether you are anxious, whether you're agitated." This practice can help with emotional regulation and can lead to insights about your emotional responses to external events. Dr Shean says another way of embracing pauses or boredom is to engage in an activity. "It takes 15 minutes to get engaged in any task," Dr Shean says. "So, you can set a timer, the Pomodoro timer is a really good thing when you're bored. "It breaks up an activity into 25-minute intervals and then you get a break and it makes you engage even when you feel bored." She says it's also important to remember that just because a task seems boring doesn't mean it's not beneficial. "Doing my PhD was really boring in parts, learning my tables was boring, and cleaning the house was boring," she says. "And maybe for you, learning French or whatever it might be, it can be boring. "But some of those things are amazing and they're really good choices and you need to sort of hold space for those uncomfortable feelings in the middle of it."

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