Media Centre
Media Enquiries
Contact Karen Collier, STARTTS Communications Officer
0432 286 851
Karen.Collier@health.nsw.gov.au
Media Coverage
30 July
SBS Spanish
Interview with STARTTS CEO and clinical psychologist, Jorge Aroche
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22 July
SBS Arabic24
Interview with STARTTS community development officer, Ashraf Sedrak
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22 July
SBS World News
How southwestern Sydney’s lockdown is impacting the mental health of its refugee residents – Jorge Aroche
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19 July
Fairfield Champion
STARTTS staff help with testing sites
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16 July
SBS Spanish Radio
STARTTS CEO Jorge Aroche shares his concerns for the Fairfield community in extended lockdown
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15 July
SBS Arabic24
STARTTS staff provide around the clock support with CALD communications at pop up testing clinic – Yassmen Yahya
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6 July
Canterbury Bankstown Torch
Refugee champions rewarded over effort
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June 30
SBS Assyrian Radio
2021 NSW Humanitarian Awards Profile: Basim Shamaon
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June 27
SBS Persian Radio
Humanitarian Awards To Celebrate Unity To Mark Refugee Week In NSW
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June 18
Newcastle Herald
Newcastle’s sixth Unity in Diversity festival returns to Foreshore Park
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June 10
SBS Spanish Radio
¿Qué impacto tiene la detención prologada de familia tamil en Christmas Island?
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June 1
Daily Advertiser
Immigrants form new Wagga Multicultural Women’s Art Group
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June
Reach Out
How to talk to your parents about wellbeing
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May 28
News of the Area
All One Under The Sun – Anti-Racism Youth Art Project Launches On Coffs Coast
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April 13
ARTnews
With a Focus on Indigenous Knowledge, 2022 Sydney Biennale Names Artists.
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April 13
Concrete Playground
The Biennale of Sydney 2022 Has Announced the First 59 Participants for Its Water-Themed Program.
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January 08
SBS French Radio
De nouveaux outils et un site pour faciliter la réhabilitation des survivants de la torture et des traumatismes.
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Media Coverage
December 21
SBS Assyrian Radio
New website for learning about Trauma healing.
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December 9
ABC News
Calls for tailored mental health support for migrant and refugee children as traumatic memories of racism endure.
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November 29
Newcastle Herald
The community program helping young migrants and refugees learn to navigate Newcastle’s iconic beaches.
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September 06
SBS News
Weeks after the Beirut blast, Lebanese Civil War survivors in Australia remain retraumatised.
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July 6
Fairfield City Champion
Sam uses ‘scars’ to help empower others.
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June 29
Fairfield City Champion
Awards acknowledge the ‘best of humanity in action’.
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July 23
Fairfield City Champion
Edensor Park resident Lucy Marin receives Medal of the Order of Australia.
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June 22
SBS Arabic Radio
NSW Humanitarian Awards.
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June 22
AJP.Com.Au
A ‘Tireless’ Campaigner For Refugee Rights.
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June 11
SBS Spanish Radio
España enjuicia a coronel salvadoreño por asesinato en 1989 de jesuitas, uno de ellos conectado a Australia.
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June 10
SBS Spanish Radio
Lucy Marín galardonada con la Medalla de la Orden de Australia por una vida dedicada a sobrevivientes de torturas y trauma.
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June 7
SBS News
After fleeing her own homeland, this woman dedicated her life to supporting Australia’s refugees.
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June 5
SBS Radio
What mental health services in your language are available in Australia?.
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May 14
ABC News
The coronavirus surveillance that’s triggering memories for Sydney’s Uyghur community.
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April 29
SBS Spanish Radio
Estados autoritarios estarían usando lucha contra COVID-19 como pretexto para reprimir.
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April 28
SBS Insight
Cooped Up Families Episode 13.
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April 23
Agencia EFE
Aroche: Con la COVID-19 debemos aprender más sobre el estrés postraumático.
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April 4
SBS Assyrian Radio
Home isolation and mental health.
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Media Release
Media Release – STARTTS Official Statement Hakeem al-Araibi
Media Coverage
October 3
SBS Spanish
‘UN human rights chief must address Manus, Nauru during Australian visit,’ psychologist says.
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September 23
Fairfield City Champion
The Uyghur community finds life.
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September 13
SBS Arabic
SBS Arabic: Coverage from the 2019 CiCT Forum – Bita Jayzan interview.
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January 10
Blue Mountain Gazette
Blue Mountains donation helps torture survivor in long road to recovery.
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Media Coverage
August 5
ABC Radio National – All in the Mind
The Mental Health of Refugees – with Mirjana Askovic.
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July 22
SBS World News: Africa
After Mugabe, what do local Zimbabweans want from July election?.
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July 17
Fairfield Champion
Tango connects Refugee Women.
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July 13
Bay FM: North Coast Positive
Sekai Holland interview with Nyck Jeanes.
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June 28
ABC News The World
Former Zimbabwean senator says country cannot ‘sit back’ and expect government to lead.
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June 27
Canterbury Bankstown Torch Newspaper
The Mental Health of Refugees – with Mirjana Askovic.
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June 26
ABC Radio National Breakfast
Zimbabwe’s fearless lady on torture and reconciliation.
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June 26
SBS Kurdish
Supporting Life After Torture – Jorge Aroche and Hassan Saleh.
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June 25
ABC Radio National, Late Night Live
Sekai Holland: Recovery from Torture.
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June 21
Fairfield Champion
Joseph Tawadros visits Bossley Park High School.
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June 14
SBS The Feed – With Marc Fennell
Torture Therapy: Giving Survivors Their Lives Back.
June 10
ABC Radio National – God Forbid
Does good spiritual health equal good mental health? – with Nooria Mehraby.
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The Forum of Australian Services for Survivors of Torture and Trauma has released a statement on the report of the Australian Human Rights Commission, The Forgotten Children: National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention.
December 18
2SER Radio – ‘Thursday Overdrive’
STARTTS Public Affairs Coordinator Richard Walker speaks to Thursday Overdrive about the ‘Let it Be’ choir concert at Riverside Theatre.
Listen online (7 min)
October 18
ABC Radio National – ‘Into The Music’
The fantastic ‘Choir of Love’, made up of members from the Assyrian, Chaldean and Syriac communities from Iraq, sing and play beautiful traditional spiritual music. It is also a place for trauma survivors to heal through musical expression. The Choir, and STARTTS, were recently featured on Radio National’s music program.
Listen now (26 min)
October 15
The Point magazine
A network of Sudanese-Australians has received the green light from NSW Corrective Services to run a voluntary prison support program for inmates in their community so they can adjust to life outside jail upon their release. STARTTS’ David Ajang is volunteering for the project.
July 26
The Weekend Australian Magazine
STARTTS’ cutting edge work in Neurofeedback has been featured in the Weekend Australian, in an article focusing on one of our past clients and our Senior Neurofeedback Clinician Mirjana Askovic.
November 30
The Sydney Magazine
Former STARTTS counsellor, Humanitarian Award winner and entrepreneur Deeqo Omar named as one of Sydney’s 100 most influential people.
November 8
Catalyst, ABC TV
Catalyst program focusing on torture and STARTTS’ Neurofeedback program for torture survivors.
November 3, 2012
Sydney Morning Herald
Profile of 2012 Sydney Peace Prize winner and STARTTS supporter Sekai Holland.
August 24, 2012
Sydney Morning Herald
‘A little care for refugees goes a long way’ – a feature about Amazing Family Day Care, started by STARTTS Humanitarian Award winner Deeqo Omar.
July 27, 2012
Sydney Morning Herald
‘Burmese refugees find new hope and work in the west’ – with the support of STARTTS.