Published: October 23, 2018
Pat McGorry says Victorian mental health system has crumbled over past 15 years
A renowned psychiatrist has described Victoria’s mental health system as “crumbling, threadbare, overwhelmed and obsolete” as the premier announced Labor would establish Australia’s first royal commission into the issue if re-elected next month.
Addressing media while visiting a men’s shed in the Macedon Ranges town of Kyneton, north-west of Melbourne, on Wednesday, Daniel Andrews said students had taken their lives at both his son’s and daughter’s schools in the past year, and that people only received help once they were already at crisis point.
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