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Getting mental health reform back on track: a leadership challenge for the new Australian Government
Author(s) -
Hickie Ian B,
McGorry Patrick D,
Davenport Tracey A,
Rosenberg Sebastian P,
Mendoza John A,
Burns Jane M,
Nicholas Jonathan,
Christensen Helen
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/mja13.11207
Subject(s) - mental health , government (linguistics) , executive director , management , research centre , library science , sociology , medicine , psychiatry , linguistics , philosophy , computer science , economics
From the late 1950s, specialist mental health services started rapidly moving out of asylums. In the 1970s, this was accelerated by the human and civil rights movements. In 1983, the Richmond Report of mental health services in New South Wales provided the fi rst coherent policy framework in Australia to underpin the process. In 1993, as Australia fi nalised its fi rst National Mental Health Strategy, the Burdekin Report on the human rights of people with mental illness highlighted systemic failures in both community and institutional care.