Since August last year we have waited for the Minister for Mental Health to talk with us about the impact of cuts to the Better…
Congratulations Mark Butler MP, for launching the Clinical Practice Guidelines on Management of Borderline Personality Disorder. You can find them right here. There are some…
For those who have been following this issue for a while, you’d be familiar with the pledge that The Greens made to disallow the cuts…
A leaked memo has revealed that the ATAPS program is struggling to cope with the demands for psychological treatment, even in metropolitan areas where there…
In several articles published over the last few weeks, the Federal Minister for Mental Health has defended against criticism that the ATAPS program is not…
Since writing our last piece about the reach of Medicare to disadvantaged people, we have received information that the Federal Government is questioning how we…
It has been repeatedly claimed by critics that Medicare supported psychological services fail to reach disadvantaged groups, but is that claim actually true? We decided to find…
Politicians rely on spin to justify cutting spending on public access to mental health treatment. In the current situation, the Government has relied on a…
The August edition of Medical Journal of Australia has published research on the treatment rates for depression in Australia, comparing the Better Access program with…
When cuts to mental health care happened last year, most people made the same mistake we did. We brought attention to the name of the…