In Australia, Primary Health Care and the mental health sector have always shared a philosophy. In 1978, Primary Health Care was first put forward as a strategy to improve “health for all.” Recently, the Australian Government included mental health as a national health priority, identifying six strategies consistent with a Primary Health Care approach to address the mental health of all Australians. Throughout this time, Primary Health Care has been highlighted in all models of care. However, in reality, it appears that in mental health services, mental health nurses, despite good intentions, are not delivering care in a planned or systematised way and that much needs to be done to further improve the situation for individuals accessing the health care system. Services currently focus on those identified as seriously mentally unwell; in order to really make an impact it is argued that services should be broader, offered to the population at large and, further, that the emphasis on case work at an individual level should be changed to an approach that considers prevention, maintenance, and follow-up as well as crisis intervention. This article reflects the Australian experience and offers some insights from that experience.

Research on Anglicisms has traditionally focussed on major European languages, leaving phylogenetically diverse languages underexplored. We aim to address this by adopting a cross-linguistic approach in which we examine the integration of English nouns, which lack inherent gender, into languages with grammatical gender, specifically those with a tripartite gender system. Our analysis includes a diverse sample of languages from Europe, the Indian Subcontinent, Africa, the Pacific, and North America. Our findings reveal that while most Anglicisms conform to established language-internal patterns, nominal Anglicisms exhibit unique characteristics within them. This study contributes to the ‘running experiment’ whereby borrowings are analysed to verify the gender systems of individual languages. By broadening the scope of research to include a wide range of under-studied languages and how they assign gender to nominal Anglicisms, we hope to enhance the understanding of Anglicism integration and contribute to the development of a global typology of Anglicisms.

This research paper investigates the use of big data to analyse road accidents in the Melbourne metropolitan area. Using the Crash dataset and the Random Forest model, the study sought to determine the relationship between various factors and the proportion of accident victims who were maimed or slain. Results demonstrated that factors such as weekdays, months, and weather conditions can influence the severity of accidents. The study provides policymakers and transportation authorities with valuable insights for devising strategies to enhance road safety and reduce accident risk. Additional research can investigate other potential accident severity factors.

Maintaining the total dissolved solids (TDS) content of desalinated seawater within regulated levels is critical for meeting regulatory limits and maintaining public confidence in the quality of the water supply. A number of strategies for maintaining TDS above the target value of 100 ppm while maintaining all other water quality parameters are described as employed in case studies in seawater desalination plants in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: These are reduction of second-stage reverse osmosis, addition of seawater, and increasing the extent of remineralisation. The main operational challenge found in increasing TDS is avoiding corrosion by maintaining the Larson–Skold index below acceptable levels. While acceptable results above 100 ppm can be achieved with relative ease, values above 150 ppm are invariably accompanied by Larson–Skold index levels above 1.2, which cannot easily be remedied without significant capital investment. As legacy thermal desalination plants are retired, it will no longer be necessary to take specific action to maintain TDS above minimum levels, and maintaining system stability at higher levels will become the more significant challenge. Finding means to address the high Larson–Skold index levels is thus a priority in the medium-term to avoid potential corrosion of the existing transmission systems, which were designed for conveyance of product water from thermal desalination plants.