Media Releases: Research
Three quarters of Australian voters demand more action on mental health
13 December 2024
New polling conducted on behalf of Australia’s peak mental health body shows 81% of Australian voters are concerned about mental health and 75% believe government needs to do more to address this issu…
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Mapping Mental Health Care - Media Release
10 October 2023
Stark disparities in access to mental health care services across Australia have been uncovered in groundbreaking new data modelling research from Mental Health Australia and the National Centre for S…
Read moreThe cost-of-living crisis is dramatically impacting Australians’ mental health
13 September 2023
The rising cost of living is directly damaging the mental wellbeing of Australians the 2023 Report to the Nation, an independent annual benchmark survey produced for Mental Health Australia, has found…
Read moreMedia release: Reform needed to address high rates of mental ill-health: National study results
22 July 2022
The national independent peak for the mental health sector cites the findings of a national study of mental health and wellbeing in Australia released today as further evidence of the urgent need for …
Read moreThe best script is what matters to you
3 September 2020
Social prescribing, which involves the referral of patients to non-medical activities to supplement conventional care, should become a standard part of Australian health care, three national health or…
Read moreNew report outlines economic benefits of investment in mental health
1 May 2018
Mental Health Australia Chair Jennifer Westacott and Executive Director, Policy, Programs & Evaluation at KPMG, Gary Belfield will tonight launch a ground-breaking report into the economic benefit…
Read moreResearch tracks mental health and wellbeing activity
5 October 2015
Exclusive research commissioned by Mental Health Australia has asked Australians what they’re doing to improve their mental health and wellbeing against ten key activities. “Generally, Australians are…
Read moreNo Health Without Mental Health
5 March 2015
“We will reap what we sow,” Frank Quinlan, CEO of Mental Health Australia, said today at the launch of the 2015 Intergenerational Report at Parliament House in Canberra. “The decisions we take today w…
Read moreAustralians happy with mental health services, October 2013
2 October 2013
According to new research by the Mental Health Council of Australia (MHCA), four out of ten Australians who use mental health services are very satisfied with them.
Read moreMHCA welcomes National Report Card, November 2012
27 November 2012
The Mental Health Council of Australia has welcomed the release of Australia’s first National Report Card on Mental Health and Suicide Prevention. “The National Report Card gives us a snapshot of wher…
Read moreLack of services mean mentally ill sent to prison, not treated, January 2010
10 January 2010
Up to 80 per cent of inmates in Australian prisons have a mental illness and magistrates in regional areas are sending mentally ill people to jail as there is often no treatment or mental health facilities available.
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