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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1996 Week 12 Hansard (21 November) . . Page.. 4219 ..

Under the National Mental Health Strategy, funds have been made available in 1996-97 for the following projects:

. alcohol, drug and mental illness (dual diagnosis) research;

. aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mental health worker project; and

. a consumer involvement project.

To ensure greater accountability for these and other changes, the Government has decided to produce an annual report for all mental health services in the ACT.

Along with other information, the report will provide public information about the operation of all services and information about the financial resources dedicated to those services.

The first of these reports will be produced in September 1997.

Mr Speaker, when it comes to providing greater resources for mental health services, this Government has certainly put its money where its mouth is.

In our first two years we have increased funding by more than $1.3 million, including provision of an extra $350,000 in 1996-97 for new services.

We will spend more than $16 million on mental health services alone.

And the Government will continue to review the level of resources required to provide adequate mental health programs across the Territory.

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