The Australian Productivity Commission has planned to review mental health spending, analysing where the current $9 billion is spent across the state and federal level.
BeyondBlue Chief Georgie Harman outlines that the inquiry has ‘the potential to drive real change’.
This review comes in response to the 3128 deaths by suicide across the nation last year, as well as numerous psychiatrists saying mental health is being ‘short changed’ after Australia spending only $9 billion out of its total health budget of $170 billion.