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Health minister grilled on Labor’s $1bn mental health package
The health minister, Mark Butler, says Labor will not technically be building new mental health centres under its $1bn mental health promise.
We’re not building them. This is to fund the operations of these centres. Generally, they will rent existing premises.
They won’t be brand-new buildings. What we will do, say, in a particular area of say, north Brisbane or regional Queensland – we say we want to establish – let’s use the word establish other than build.
Head to Health – no one knew what it was, okay?
We did research. We basically, looked at how the existing services, which had started under the former government, were performing.
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Publish date : 2025-04-09 06:34:00
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