Tim Heffernan
Lived-experience mental health advocate and former NSW Deputy Mental Health Commissioner who shares personal experiences of psychosis and advocates for peer support and humane care.
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Mar 16, 2026 • 54min
Mental illness —Taking stigma out of media reporting
Tim Heffernan, lived-experience advocate who survived psychosis and promotes peer support. Gayle McNaught, StigmaWatch manager who engages journalists to reduce harmful reporting. Dr Anna Ross, researcher of media portrayals and stigma. They discuss how news links mental illness to violence, patterns of sensational headlines, newsroom pressures and wire content, and ways media practice can reduce retraumatization and social harm.
