Jeremy Rockliff,Minister for Mental Health and Wellbeing
Mr Goddard’s latest report on mental health services contains factual inaccuracies.
I’m concerned that calculations around beds rely on the incorrect claim that beds were lost at the Peacock Centre when it burnt down.
In fact, the Peacock Centre provided community mental health support, it was not an inpatient facility, meaning Mr Goddard is using incorrect numbers to support his calculations.
The Tasmanian Liberal Government has a $216 million plan to continue our transformation of Tasmania’s mental health system, alcohol and drug treatment system and improve the health and wellbeing of Tasmanians.
Australia’s Capitalist Finance Sector: Deception, Exploitation and Misdirection of Financial Resources
by Trotskyist Platform / May 11th, 2021
In recent years, the ripping off of customers, deceit and even outright fraud practiced by Australian finance sector businesses has gained much attention. Four years ago it was revealed how CommInsure, the insurance arm of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA), had refused to make promised life insurance payments to heart attack survivors. They “justified” this by using a definition of a heart attack that was so dodgy that even some people who had
such a severe heart attack that they had to be resuscitated were denied their entitled pay outs! Such devious practices have been undertaken by finance sector enterprises big and small – from the big four banks and insurance giants to brokers and loan enablers and to retail businesses that hand out loans. As a result the banks, insurance companies and the brokers and others connected t
09 May 2021
Stanley’s newest mum, Skye Billing-Gale will celebrate her first Mother’s Day this Sunday with her little rainbow baby at the end of the storm.
Content warning: contains graphic description of pregnancy loss.
Diagnosed with bowel cancer in April 2017 at just 27, Skye spent 12 months travelling to and from Melbourne, having surgeries and chemo, taking it all in her stride while she planned her wedding to husband Grant Hursey.
Having her last surgery mid 2018, Skye received the all clear just in time for her October wedding.
Following a year of good health Skye felt that something was ‘different’ in early January, 2020 and nerves set in. Thinking she may either be pregnant or that her cancer had returned, she took a pregnancy test hoping she wasn’t looking ahead to another year of treatments and surgeries.
Tasmanian Labor
Labor will employ 30 new mental health social workers in Community Health Centres
Only Labor is working for Tasmanians to create a better and fairer state
A majority Labor Government would form a Suicide Prevention Commission to help identify and understand the factors and systematic issues that may contribute to suicide risk.
Labor Leader Rebecca White said funding of $1 million a year would be given to the Commissioner to help government better understand the issues facing Tasmanians.
“The Commissioner will make recommendations to government about the actions and strategies relevant to past and any future deaths by suicide,” Ms White said.
Travel hopes crushed: After being told for a YEAR vaccines were the key to freedom Australians now face being trapped in a gilded cage indefinitely after shock revelation that jabs won t open borders even when the slow rollout is complete
Even when Australia is fully vaccinated the borders may remain on lockdown
Australian government says other factors will determine reopening
Some experts believe quarantine system will remain in place until at least 2024
Business leaders and media commentators lashed the government s position