Hannah Flynn
Journalism student with a passion to share stories that matter.
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“You have cancer.”
It’s one sentence no one wants to hear.
But for 15-year-old Canberra teen, Connor, it was almost a relief. For his entire life he’s felt different, looked different, was different. After years of being chronically unwell with no answers, finally, he knew what was wrong.
17 year old Bianca Roberts is the kind of person who warms the very room she enters like a beam of sunshine. Her kind and positive nature is infectious. However, she is now living with a chronic and debilitating illness with no cure in sight.
In Australia, 60% of female nurses have experienced sexual harassment, with patients most often being the perpetrators. The healthcare industry is rife with sexual harassment yet it is often excused, ignored or dismissed as part of the job by the workers themselves.