Yesterday the Minister for Mental Health, Mark Butler, joined with SANE Australia to officially launched a comprehensive report People living with Psychotic Illness 2010. SANE…
The Senate inquiry into mental health funding and administration released their report on 1 November 2011, the same day that the Government went ahead with…
Each time that concerns about cuts to the Better Access program have been broadcast across the media, the Federal Minister for Mental Health has been…
The federal government is poised to go ahead with changes to the mental health system before November that will cut the maximum number of Medicare-funded…
At the start of November, the federal government plans to cut psychological services in the Better Access program in half. People looking for a referral…
Last Monday, I flew to Canberra to represent the shared perspectives of consumers and mental health professionals to the federal senators involved in the current…
The Black Dog Riders have set off on a 3000 km ride from Sydney to Alice Springs, to raise awareness about depression and the need…
A line in the sand has now been drawn with GPs saying they will not draw up Mental Health Care Plans in the Better Access…
The lifeline thrown to people living with anxiety and depression a few years ago has just been made a little shorter. Policy which made treatment…
The GP representative on the Goverment’s independent advisory group on mental health has quit in protest about the planned cuts to psychological services announced by…