News and Updates
Media
2025
- Rethinking end-of-life care (July 2025)
- ABC WA Mornings radio interview(starts at 1:35:15) (July 2025)
- ABC WA Regional Mornings radio interview (starts at 6.30) (Juy 2025)
- Bringing comfort and calm to those facing their final days. (January, 2025)
2023
- Lesson in Compassion (Dying to Know Day) (August, 2023)
- Bunbury embraces compassionate communities charter (June, 2023)
- It won’t kill us to speak openly about death and dying (May, 2023)
- Everything Southwest. Prof Samar Aoun, WA Australian of the Year (February, 2023)
- What is dying a good death? The Year That Made Me, Samar Aoun: 2012 (February, 2023)
- Australian of the Year finalist Samar Aoun is changing palliative care (January, 2023)
2022
- Improving Palliative Care Education (December, 2022)
- City Creates City Charter (South West Times, 4 August 2022)
- A new charter to be based on compassion (Bunbury Mail, 3 August 2022)
- Reducing the social isolation for families (Bunbury Mail, 27 July 2022)
- Opening the door to death (Bunbury Mail, 20 July 2022)
- Learning about death (Bunbury Mail, 13 July 2022)
2021
- Nobody’s an island when we grieve (The Senior, 2 September 2021)
- WA grief forum in Bunbury a Success (Bunbury Mail, 10 August 2021)
- Grief support is valued (Bunbury Mail, 14 July 2021)
- A South West grief support program helps people when most needed (Bunbury Mail, July 2021)
- South West Compassionate Community Network branches out to Busselton (Bunbury Mail, July 2021)
The South West Compassionate Communities Network acknowledges the Noongar community as the traditional owners and custodians of Country in the South West of Western Australia and acknowledges their continuing connection to land, water and community. We pay our respects to the people, the cultures and the elders past, present and emerging.
