Professor Pat McGorry, Executive Director, Orygen Youth Health Research Centre, will appear today from Europe via videolink to provide evidence to the Senate Inquiry into the Budget mental h... Read more
Since the May budget, when the Federal Government announced that $1.5 billion in mental health investments over the next five years would be partly funded by a redirection of $580.5 million... Read more
Does a medical model or a social health framework provide the most equitable and effective approach for improving the health of children (and thus of future adults and communities), particul... Read more
Dr Lesley Russell from the Menzies Centre for Health Policy at the University of Sydney, has had a close look at the budget’s mental health papers, and prepared a 12-page analysis whic... Read more
Health economist Professor Gavin Mooney writes: There have been many comments on Crikey, Croakey and elsewhere on the budget. Here I want to endorse Martin Laverty’s call on Croakey for a Se... Read more
Finally, perhaps some of the rhetoric about the importance of “whole-of-government” approaches in health is going to be put into action. The recent budget announcements on mental... Read more
Below are some links to recommended reading. They cover everything from the challenged role of doctors, and the federal health budget, to inequality, AMA chest-beating, health policy –... Read more
There has been a veritable deluge of budget coverage at Croakey in recent days. To help readers negotiate it all, here is a summary. The stories are grouped under the headings of mental heal... Read more
Mental health is a particularly fraught area of public policy (as you may have noticed from recent Crikey/Croakey articles on the budget announcements). You could write a book about all the... Read more
There are many question marks over the likely impact of the budget’s mental health announcements, says psychiatrist Professor Alan Rosen. A particular concern is the lack of clear supp... Read more
