HEALTH
SERVICES ACT — GOVERNANCE REVIEW —MENTAL HEALTH DIRECTORATE
RECOMMENDATION
629. Ms L. METTAM to the Minister for Mental Health:
I have a supplementary question.
How does this recommendation align with Labor's 2017 commitment to
retain the Mental Health Commission and ensure the 10-year plan is implemented?
Ms A.
SANDERSON replied:
Again, member, read the review. Do
the work. It does not recommend abolishing the Mental Health Commission. That
is not what it recommends, so stop spreading misinformation and fear amongst
people. That is all you peddle. That is the only thing you trade on. Do the
work.
Ms L. Mettam: Listen to the
sector!
Ms A. SANDERSON: I talk to
the sector all the time, and people in that sector know my personal commitment
to this issue. They know that and they understand that. They speak to my office
regularly. I speak to them regularly and I meet with people in the sector
regularly. I understand their position and I absolutely support the incredible
work that the Mental Health Commission does and has done, particularly around
that development of peer workers, lived experience and the recovery model. Very
little of that work progressed under the member's government—very,
very little of that work. It is only under the Labor government that that work
has progressed. I am proud of that work and I will continue to support that
work.