Mental health policy is becoming an important issue in the 2025 Federal Election with both major parties offering mental health announcements over the last few weeks.
Early in the campaign the Liberal Party announced they would increase the number of bulk-billed psychologist appointments to twenty while the Labor party announced a billion-dollar investment in early invention and Medicare mental health centres.
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Produced By: Stephen Hill
Featured In Story: Associate Professor Sebastian Rosenberg, Senior Lecturer in Mental Health Policy, Brain and Mind Research Centre, University of Sydney
First aired on The Wire, Wednesday 9 April 2025