FAIRLY FUND MENTAL HEALTH

Sign our petition in support of our State Conference motion. ​

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The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the faultlines in our mental health system. Overloaded, underfunded, and struggling to keep up with skyrocketing demand - the system is in crisis and people in need are suffering.   

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Sign the petition calling for Labor to support the expansion of Medicare for mental health services - including providing cost-free  psychologist sessions through the GP Mental Health Care Plan and lifting the plan cap from 10 to 40 sessions per year. 

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The global pandemic and two years of natural disasters have decimated  the mental health of many Australians. We’ll continue to see the impacts of these events for years to come. 

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But even before these past two years our mental health services were failing to meet growing demand. A recent parliamentary inquiry put a spotlight on a system  is in strife with inadequate resourcing, inadequate focus on prevention and early intervention and a growing geographic disparity in care. 

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Australia must have a fairly funded mental health system that is universally available to everyone regardless of their age, income or geography. 

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Labor had the vision to deliver Medicare and we now must have the vision to save our mental health system.