Each issue in the year 2000 edition of the Australian Transcultural Mental Health Network (ATMHN) newsletter represents a theme crucial to mental health practitioners. The articles in Winter 2000 are the result of the national Suicide Prevention in Immigrant Populations Conference and include detailed analyses on suicide trends in diverse cultural and linguistic communities, suicide bereavement in the very young, and the challenges of providing an effective transcultural mental health services in remote Australia. Spring 2000 features articles on cross cultural mental health training programs for General Practitioners. Summer 2000 discusses obstacles to effective mental health promotion, prevention, and education. Autumn 2000 presents a report on the cultural competence in Victorian Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services. Each issue contains reports on current ATMHN-funded projects. (Contains 12 tables and 73 references.) (JDM)