For more than 50 years we’ve had reports telling us what’s wrong with the mental health system. We now have a set of actions – what are we waiting for?
Like all commonwealth department offices, the department of health building in Canberra has all the photos of the relevant ministers going back to Federation.
Sussan Ley, the current health minister, will find among those photos that of Sir Earle Christmas Page, health minister in the Menzies government from 1949 to 1956. Like Ley, Page represented a NSW country seat and like Page, she has been given a report that paints a “disturbing picture” of mental health across Australia.
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