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Professor James Ogloff, Executive Director of Research and Psychological Services Forensicare, Victoria
Victorian Supreme Court Judge Terry Forrest, President of the Forensic Leave Panel
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Victorian mental health royal commission final report finds system operates in crisis mode
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The royal commission s chair Penny Armytage says the mental health system has been failing for decades .
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Victoria s mental health system operates in crisis mode, has catastrophically failed to live up to expectations and must be rebuilt, a damning report from the state s mental health royal commission has found.
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The report says the mental health system is over-reliant on medication and last year s bushfires highlighted its failures