Residents across western Victoria will finally have access to the mental health support they need and deserve under a Liberal and Nationals Government, with Nationals Member for Lowan Emma Kealy today announcing a commitment for a Mental Health and Wellbeing Local in Horsham. The service was a recommendation of the 2021 Royal Commission into Victoria’s…
A Liberal and Nationals Government will deliver sweeping reforms to reset Victoria’s mental health system and build a world-leading model of mental health care for young Victorians. At the heart of the youth mental health commitment will be a new Youth Mental Health Centre of Excellence, overseen by leading youth mental health organisation Orygen. The…
My constituency question is to the Premier. Premier, why doesn’t regional Victoria ever get its fair share under Labor? This year country Victoria got just 12 per cent of Labor’s state infrastructure investment, despite 25 per cent of Victorians calling country Victoria home. For 23 of the past 27 years, successive Labor governments have ripped…
Almost 55 per cent of Victorian mental health patients waited more than eight hours in an emergency department for an appropriate bed, yet Labor is delaying the release of the latest performance data until after Parliament rises. The latest available data shows just 45.1 per cent of adults requiring transfer to a mental health bed…
Shadow Minister for Mental Health, Emma Kealy, has called for an urgent inquiry into child and youth mental health services in Victoria following revelations of two youth suicide clusters in Melbourne’s east. Ms Kealy said the revelations exposed a system that only reviews a child’s death if they had already been treated within the public…
I continue on the Safe Patient Care (Nurse to Patient and Midwife to Patient Ratios) Amendment Bill 2026. This is a very important piece of legislation because the aspiration, what the government is setting out to achieve, is a good thing and is important. We need to ensure that people who enter Victoria’s public health…
Serious questions have been raised of the Carroll Labor Government after series of revelations that it is failing key aspects of Mental Health reform. Among the issues to come to light this week include: Revelations a Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission report was altered to appear flattering to the government. The new Parkville Youth Mental…
A Liberal and Nationals Government will get Victoria’s mental health reforms back on track, despite the Carroll Labor Government’s decision to bundle the Mental Health portfolio with Health. Shadow Minister for Mental Health Emma Kealy said the government’s decision to put the portfolios together under the same umbrella created a real risk that mental health…
My adjournment matter is for the Minister for Mental Health, and the action I seek is for immediate funding to be provided to establish a mental health local in Horsham. Back in 2021 the royal commission handed down its final report, and within that was a recommendation to roll out mental health locals right across…
Kids Helpline has been forced to manage a record surge in crisis interventions after the Allan Labor Government knocked back a modest $4.5 million funding request, with the service now recording its highest number of emergency callouts on record. Media reports this week revealed calls made in the first half of this year from children…
