A travelling commission will meet in the nation’s capital this week to hear from people with lived experience of Australia’s mental health support systems.
It will be the fifth stop on a three-month-long tour across the country to understand how Australians are interacting with mental health and suicide prevention services and how they can be improved.
The National Mental Health Commission expects its Connection2022 tour will provide critical insights as it develops a framework with recommendations to the federal government.
The commission has already visited Lismore, Dubbo and Bourke in regional New South Wales (NSW), where communities have been rocked by drought, floods, a mouse plague and the pandemic….