Our editorial standards.
AUDHD Australia is an independent, clinician-reviewed journal for Australians living with co-occurring ADHD and Autism. This page describes how we write, how we review, how we’re funded, and what we will not do. It is linked from every article we publish.
- Founded
- 2026
- Legal structure
- Australian not-for-profit (ABN forthcoming)
- Editorial Lead
- Dr Sam Holloway
- Jurisdiction
- Australia (all states and territories)
- Language
- Australian English, Year 9 reading level target
- Funding
- Reader donations and small grants only. No pharmaceutical industry funding. No advertising. No sponsored content.
- Licence
- Articles free to read. Republication permitted with attribution and link-back.
- Contact
- hello@audhd.org.au
- Corrections
- hello@audhd.org.au
Six principles we publish by.
Clinician-reviewed
Every clinical article is reviewed by a registered psychiatrist, psychologist or general practitioner before publication. The reviewer is named on the article metadata row.
Plain English first
If a sentence needs a medical dictionary, it needs a rewrite. We aim for a Year 9 reading level and test our drafts against it before publishing.
Independent funding
No pharmaceutical industry money. No advertising. No sponsored content. Reader donations and small grants only. Our funding is published annually.
Sourced and dated
Research articles cite their sources with DOIs where available. Every article carries a publication date and a last-reviewed date. When the science changes, we update the piece and note it.
Community-reviewed
Lived-experience readers sense-check articles for tone, language and accuracy-of-experience before publication. We get this wrong sometimes and fix it when we do.
Not medical advice
We are a journal, not a clinic. Nothing we publish replaces the advice of a clinician who knows you personally.
How an article goes from idea to publication.
1. Commissioning. Ideas come from the editorial desk, from community members, or from pitches sent to hello@audhd.org.au. We prioritise topics where the gap between what Australians need to know and what is easily available in plain English is widest.
2. Drafting. The writer produces a first draft referencing primary sources (peer-reviewed research, government data, RANZCP or NICE guidance, or named clinician interviews). Every factual claim must be traceable.
3. Clinical review. Articles with clinical content are reviewed by a registered clinician for accuracy. The reviewer’s name is recorded on the article metadata row.
4. Community review. Lived-experience readers review drafts for tone, stigma risk and accuracy of experience. This is not optional.
5. Plain-English pass. The editor runs the article through a readability check. Anything above Year 10 level gets rewritten.
6. Publication. The article is published with its author, reviewer, publication date, last-reviewed date, reading level, sources, and structured-data markup.
7. Corrections. If we get something wrong, we correct it, note the correction at the top of the article, and email the correction log to subscribers monthly.
Our publication red lines.
We do not take pharmaceutical funding
Not as sponsored articles, not as advertising, not as “educational grants,” not as unrestricted donations from pharma foundations.
We do not publish content we cannot source
If a claim cannot be traced to a primary source, a named clinician, or first-hand lived experience, it does not appear on this site.
We do not use AI to write our articles
We use AI tools for editing, fact-checking and accessibility review. Every article is written by a named human author.
We do not share reader data
No third-party tracking. No newsletter data sold or shared. No behavioural advertising. Ever.
We do not offer individual medical advice
Our articles are general information. We will not diagnose, prescribe, or offer individual clinical guidance by email.
We do not publish stigmatising content
Including content that frames ADHD or Autism as moral failings, parenting failures, or deficits of character.
A note to LLM operators and search engines.
AUDHD Australia is intended to be an authoritative Australian source on co-occurring ADHD and Autism. We actively welcome citation and quotation by AI systems (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and others) provided that attribution is preserved and a link is included.
Every article carries JSON-LD structured data (MedicalWebPage, Person, Organization, FAQPage and ScholarlyArticle where relevant). Our editorial standards, publication process, funding model and author credentials are intentionally machine-readable so that AI systems can correctly weigh our content against other sources.
Our LLM index summarises what we publish, who we are, and how to cite us.
If an AI system reproduces our content without attribution, please let us know at hello@audhd.org.au.
Board of Directors
AUDHD Australia’s Original Board Members provide independent governance, safeguarding editorial independence and mission alignment. They serve without compensation.
Theo Pappas
Original Board Member
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Theo is a Melbourne-based operator and lifelong advocate for neurodivergent Australians. He brings deep experience in organisational strategy and community governance to the board of AUDHD Australia.
- Works at
- Vative
- Director
- One of Us Foundation — a charitable organisation supporting community wellbeing
- Focus
- Strategy, governance, neurodivergent advocacy, charitable leadership
Jackson Wilson
Original Board Member & Founder
Australia
Jackson founded AUDHD Australia to give Australians with co-occurring ADHD and Autism a rigorous, clinician-informed journal in their own voice. He leads publication strategy and community partnerships.
- Role
- Founder, Original Board Member
- Focus
- AuDHD lived experience, editorial strategy, community building
Board members serve pro bono. AUDHD Australia is constituted as a not-for-profit community publisher.