june 2009

Cover Picure April 2006

This Issue: The Devine Mistake: The sublime Art of Theresa Brynes
Cover Photo: Theresa Byrnes' performance art "Trace"
Courtesy of Andrzej Liguz moreimages.net


Link is now avaliable Online!

Subscribe Now to win an ipod Nano!

Link is now avaliable online to subscribers. Click here for more details - or otherwise contact our Subscription Manager to find out how to access the online version of Link! Hurry Competition ends August 31!

Free Online Articles

Enjoy some of the stories in the current and past editions of Link. Click here to find out more...


Latest Issue

June 2009

What you get in the latest Link!
Subscribe to Link Disability Magazine and have all the following stories and more delivered straight to your door...

cover story

squarer bullet The Devine Miss B. Theresa Byrnes' exhilaration for life, adventure and transformation make for intoxicating art.

Features

square_bullet2 Study: People with disabilities live in the poorest suburbs in Australia
square_bullet2 Fiona Place: relating to the child, not the disability
squarebullet Keeping reality at arm’s length. Academics in ivory towers
squarebullet Nick Rushworth tells how he escaped permanent brain injury
squarebullet Roger Rees: the tragedy of alert minds in paralysed bodies
squarebullet Making public buildings accessible & easy to negotiate
squarebullet The pitiless plight of Africa’s mentally ill
squarebullet Criminalising mental illness
squarebullet Bruce Bonyhady: time for a national disability insurance scheme
squarebullet Post-natal depression. Jane Gardner reports on symptoms and treatments
squarebullet One man’s persistence after five strokes
squarebullet Revolutionary new communication for deaf people
squarebullet Some doctors just don’t get disability says Andrew Gunn
squarebullet Unethical tactics of pharma giant Merck
squarebullet Spiderman is ok but not a TV presenter with one arm!

Regulars

squarebullet Who Cares? Ken Baker examines the recent report on carers
squarebullet Robbi Williams reveals how he came to work in the disability sector
Book Excerpt
squarebullet The Divine Mistake. Theresa Brynes’ racy, thought-provoking autobiography

Humour

squarebullet Peter Coulter discovers another alternative practitioner – the “Intuitive”!
squarebullet What’s On