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(b) 2017—the Auditor-General’s Audit into Mental Health Services—Transition from Acute Care to community;

(d) 2018—Independent External Review of Mental Health Inpatient Services within ACT Health;

(e) 2019—Independent review of the workplace culture within ACT public health services;

(f) 2020—the Office for Mental Health and Wellbeing’s Review of Children and Young People in the ACT;

(g) 2020—the Office for Mental Health and Wellbeing’s Older Person’s Mental Health Review which is currently underway; and

(h) 2020—Standing Committee on Education, Employment and Youth Affairs’ inquiry into youth mental health, which is currently underway;

(4) acknowledges that the Human Rights Commission’s Health Services Commissioner plays an important role in handling complaints about the provision of health services in the ACT and supporting improvements in the provision of health services; and

(5) notes that the Government will continue to:

(a) work with the Federal Government and Capital Health Network to improve mental health services across the Territory;

(b) deliver on agreed recommendations of the abovementioned reviews;

(d) build clinical and community mental health service capacity; and

(e) build an integrated mental health system.”.

I commend this amendment to the Assembly. It outlines, in much more detail than I have been able to cover today, a range of improvements that are being made and the clear intent of the government that we will continue to improve the mental health system in the ACT for the benefit of some of the most vulnerable people in our community.

MR MILLIGAN (Yerrabi) (4.31): I would like to thank my colleague Mrs Dunne for her tireless work in the health and mental health portfolios. She has certainly put much time and effort into holding this government to account; she has done so because she is passionate and because she cares. She is passionate about giving Canberrans access to the best support that they desperately need, and calls on the government to deliver what the community needs.

Sadly, this government are out of touch and are more interested in pet projects and smoke and mirrors than the challenges facing people in our community. They talk a big game on special days or give out glossy reports, but when it comes down to it, they do not seem to trust Indigenous people.

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