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Mental health funding in the 2017 budget is too little, unfair and lacks a coherent strategy

  • Written by Sebastian Rosenberg, Senior Lecturer, Brain and Mind Centre, University of Sydney
imageMental health remains chronically underfunded.from shutterstock.com

This week’s federal budget allocated A$115 million in new funding over four years. This is one of the smallest investments in the sector in recent years.

For instance, the Council of Australian Governments (CoAG) added more than $5.5 billion to mental health spending in 2006....

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