Is the ALP’s approach to mental health ‘tokenistic’?

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Julia Gillard claims she is especially attune to mental health issues because her father was a psyichiatric nurse. After years of inaction under Rudd, the government announced yesterday a new mental health policy which includes $227 million for suicide prevention. However, mental health experts say this is just more electioneering.

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