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Here's how much it would cost the government to pay everyone who takes care of family with mental illness

  • Written by Sandra Diminic, Adjunct Fellow, School of Public Health, The University of Queensland
imageA study has for the first time provided a detailed profile of who mental health carers are and what they doRachel Young/Flickr, CC BY-SA

Primary carers for people with mental illness in Australia do so for an average 36 hours per week – yet this work is not officially acknowledged and largely goes unpaid.

A report by Mind Australia and the...

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