ANNOUNCEMENT: $1.5 billion for Mental Health

9 August 2010  The Coalition has committed $1.5 billion to expand Mental Health facilities with a particular emphasis on early intervention. Professor John Mendoza writing in The Australian newspaper on 1 July 2010 described this as "... the most significant announcement by any political party in relation to a targeted evidence-based investment in mental health".   The main points are highlighted in the attached summary.   

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