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Funding fix needed to help dire mental health system
Leading organisations are calling on the NSW government to invest in a mental health care system on the brink of collapse due to long-term underfunding.
Despite enjoying the largest budget, data shows NSW has invested the least per capita on mental health services over the past three years when compared to other states and territories.
Rates of psychological distress have almost doubled over the past decade yet funding has not kept up.
While mental health represents 15% of the total burden of disease in the state, it only receives five per cent of overall health-care funding.
Multiple advocacy groups, including the Black Dog Institute, the Australian College of Mental Health Nurses NSW and the Royal Australian New Zealand College of Psychiatrists have launched a campaign for funding to meet community demand.
Black Dog Institute chief scientist Samuel Harvey said:
The fact is the NSW mental health system is critically underfunded and on the brink of collapse.
Across the state, we are seeing mental health services stretch to their limits, the mental health workforce is burnt out and people who need help are falling through the cracks.
– Australian Associated Press
(More to come on this in the next blog post)
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Albanese: Coalition’s promotion of nuclear energy an ‘alibi for inaction’ on climate crisis
The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, is launching Labor’s Tasmanian state election campaign in Launceston.
Albanese said the Coalition’s claim to want civilian nuclear energy is not a plan to do something but an excuse to do nothing (to combat climate change), labelling it an “alibi for inaction” and a new form of denial.
He says:
In fact, nuclear energy is a lot like the Liberal Party. No help to anyone today. Completely wrong for Australia’s future and notorious for waste that takes forever to clean up. Labor is the party of the light on the hill. The Liberals just want us to glow in the dark.
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Sydney’s Cranbrook to hold independent review of handling of child safety concerns
Private boys’ school Cranbrook has announced an independent review into the school’s handling of serious child safety concerns following the resignation of its high-school’s headmaster Nicholas Sampson.
In an update sent from the Cranbrook School Council to its community following “the events” of last week, the…
2024-03-10 19:42:34
Link from www.theguardian.com