EDITOR S NOTE: This is the third and final story in a series on the challenges law enforcement faces in handling calls involving people in mental health crisis and the efforts
NOTE: This is the first in a series on the challenges law enforcement faces in handling calls of people in a mental health crisis and the efforts being made to
Stuart Robert would take meetings with people during parliamentary sitting days while deliberately starving himself. The then minister for government services and the National Disability Insurance Scheme was proud of it, actually. He told anyone who would listen that he ate nothing, sometimes for days in a row, while the nation’s MPs were in Canberra working their longest hours. “Do you know why?” he said to one person with whom he was meeting in late 2019, before taking the liberty to answer his own question. “Because I can.”