{"id":1081341,"date":"2023-06-12T15:00:23","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T15:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2023\/jun\/13\/calls-for-restorative-justice-after-dehumanising-incidents-in-victoria-mental-health-care-system"},"modified":"2023-06-12T15:00:23","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T15:00:23","slug":"calls-for-restorative-justice-after-dehumanising-incidents-in-victorias-mental-health-care-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/06\/12\/calls-for-restorative-justice-after-dehumanising-incidents-in-victorias-mental-health-care-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Calls for restorative justice after \u2018dehumanising\u2019 incidents in Victoria\u2019s mental health care system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018I chewed my way through the restraints in front of two security guards who were laughing at me\u2019, says one woman<\/p><ul><li>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/oct\/29\/email-newsletters-guardian-australia-best-daily-news-emails-newsletter-free-sign-up-inbox-subscribe-headlines?CMP=cvau_sfl\">morning and afternoon news emails<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/li><\/ul><p>When Victoria\u2019s mental health royal commission made landmark findings of systemic human rights breaches in 2021, there was little that surprised Anna*.<\/p><p>At the time of the inquiry\u2019s hearings, Anna had numerous stints in the psychiatric wards of Victorian public hospitals. She said the experiences were \u201cdehumanising\u201d and often chipped away at her will to live.<\/p><p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/oct\/29\/email-newsletters-guardian-australia-best-daily-news-emails-newsletter-free-sign-up-inbox-subscribe-headlines?CMP=copyembed\">Sign up for Guardian Australia\u2019s free morning and afternoon<\/a><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/oct\/29\/email-newsletters-guardian-australia-best-daily-news-emails-newsletter-free-sign-up-inbox-subscribe-headlines?CMP=copyembed\"> <\/a><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/oct\/29\/email-newsletters-guardian-australia-best-daily-news-emails-newsletter-free-sign-up-inbox-subscribe-headlines?CMP=copyembed\">email newsletters for your daily news roundup<\/a><\/strong><\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2023\/jun\/13\/calls-for-restorative-justice-after-dehumanising-incidents-in-victoria-mental-health-care-system\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2023\/jun\/13\/calls-for-restorative-justice-after-dehumanising-incidents-in-victoria-mental-health-care-system\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018I chewed my way through the restraints in front of two security guards who were laughing at me\u2019, says one womanGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastWhen Victoria\u2019s mental health royal commission made landmark findin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13954,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1340,1244,6,889,2841],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081341"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13954"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1081341"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1082113,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081341\/revisions\/1082113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1081341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1081341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1081341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}