Appendix 4 - Submissions, responses to adverse comment and answers to questions on notice

Appendix 4 - Submissions, responses to adverse comment and answers to questions on notice

This appendix provides a list of submissions and responses received to adverse comment made in evidence.

It also lists answers provided to questions taken on notice by witnesses at the committee's public hearings. The majority of answers have been accepted and numbered as additional submissions. Additional information accompanying a number of answers is listed separately below.

Submissions

  1. Associate Professor Brian Boettcher
  2. insane australia
    1. insane australia
  3. Dr Simon Byrne
  4. Dr Julie Johnstone
  5. Consumers and Carers from the NSW Far South Coast
    1. Consumers and Carers from the NSW Far South Coast
  6. Victorian Deaf Society
  7. Mr Mark Lacey
  8. Mr Michael Williams
  9. Name withheld
  10. Name withheld
  11. Name withheld
  12. Name withheld
  13. Name withheld
  14. ARC Group
  15. Name withheld
  16. Name withheld
  17. Mr David Heckendorf LLB BA
  18. Confidential
  19. Name withheld
  20. Name withheld
  21. Name withheld
  22. Name withheld
  23. ARAFMI National Council Inc
  24. West Australian Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Advisory Committee
  25. Dr Yun Hee Jeon
  26. Name withheld
  27. Name withheld
  28. Name withheld
  29. Confidential
  30. Professional Psychotherapy Centre
  31. Name withheld
  32. Professor Margot Prior
  33. Confidential
  34. Name withheld
    1. Confidential
  35. Miss Margaret Burton
  36. Ms Lorna Cleave
  37. Name withheld
  38. Name withheld
  39. M Mandeno
  40. Ms Anne Matheson and Dr Anthony Marinac
  41. Homeless Persons' Legal Clinic
  42. Name withheld
  43. OZcare
  44. Ms Nicci Wall
  45. Confidential
  46. Associate Professor David Straton
  47. Professor Anthony Jorm and Ms Betty Kitchener
  48. Name withheld
    1. Name withheld
  49. Name withheld
  50. The Australian Psychological Society Ltd
    1. The Australian Psychological Society Ltd
  51. Newtown WDVCAS: Marrickville Legal Centre
  52. Dr Andrew Gunn MBBS BA MAPhil FRACGP
  53. Name withheld
  54. Name withheld
  55. Name withheld
  56. Name withheld
  57. Name withheld
  58. Dr Donald Scott-Orr
  59. Name withheld
  60. The Northern Beaches Mental Health Consumer Network
    1. The Northern Beaches Mental Health Consumer Network
  61. Name withheld
  62. Name withheld
  63. Name withheld
  64. Confidential
  65. Mental Health Resource Service
  66. Name withheld
  67. Micah Projects Inc
  68. Australian Rotary Health Research Fund
  69. Confidential
  70. Name withheld
  71. Ms Christine Couzens
  72. Mill Park Family Support Group
  73. Name withheld
  74. Name withheld
  75. Name withheld
  76. Name withheld
  77. Name withheld
  78. Name withheld
  79. Mr David Gould
  80. Name withheld
  81. Confidential
  82. Healthscope Ltd
    1. Healthscope Ltd
    2. 82B Healthscope Ltd
  83. Australian Infant, Child, Adolescent and Family Mental Health Association
    1. Confidential (DVD)
  84. Ms Sharon Ponder
  85. School of Nursing & Midwifery – University of South Australia
  86. Name withheld
  87. Confidential
  88. SA Division of General Practice Inc
  89. Name withheld
    1. Confidential
  90. Name withheld
  91. White Wreath Association Inc
  92. Autism Aspergers Advocacy Australia
  93. Ms Jenine Bailey
  94. Name withheld
  95. Name withheld
  96. Mildura Mental Health Services
  97. Brotherhood of St Laurence
  98. ORYGEN Research Centre
  99. Department of Psychological Medicine – Children's Hospital at Westmead, and The Tamworth Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS), Hunter New England Area Health
  100. Name withheld
  101. Western Australia Section of the College of Clinical Psychologists
  102. Name withheld
  103. Canberra Schizophrenia Fellowship
  104. Mr Kieran Wicks
  105. Origins Vic Inc
  106. Health Consumers of Rural and Remote Australia – (HCRRA)
  107. Boystown
  108. Comprehensive Area Service Psychiatrists Special Interest Group
    1. Comprehensive Area Service Psychiatrists Special Interest Group
  109. National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre
  110. Mental Health Research Institute
  111. Strategic Planning Group for Private Psychiatric Services
  112. Mental Health Foundation ACT Inc
  113. Ms Sheelah Egan
  114. Mr Brian Haisman
  115. Mr Neil Alcorn
  116. Mental Illness Fellowship NQ
    1. Mental Illness Fellowship NQ
  117. Confidential
  118. Name withheld
  119. Mr Keith Sayers
  120. Australian Principals Associations Professional Development Council
    1. Australian Principals Associations Professional Development Council
  121. Name withheld
  122. Name withheld
  123. Name withheld
  124. Name withheld
  125. Name withheld
  126. Ms Geraldine Spencer
  127. Confidential
  128. Name withheld
  129. Name withheld
  130. Name withheld
  131. Name withheld
  132. Name withheld
  133. SANE Australia
  134. Name withheld
  135. Confidential
  136. Confidential
    1. Confidential
  137. Name withheld
  138. Mr Shane Jones
  139. Confidential
  140. Mrs I Thomas
  141. Confidential
  142. Ms Paola Mason
  143. Australian Private Hospitals Association
    1. Australian Private Hospitals Association
  144. Name withheld
  145. R Wilson
  146. A N Brooks
  147. Ms Pearl Bruhn
  148. Confidential
  149. Ms Karen Trenfield
  150. East Gippsland Consumer & Carer Group
  151. Anxiety & Depression Support Group – Albury Wodonga
  152. Mr Ross O'Donovan
  153. blue National Postnatal Depression Program
  154. SANE form letter
  155. Dr Alice H Caseleyr
  156. Name withheld
  157. Confidential
  158. Professor Graeme Smith
  159. Ms Marian A Forster
  160. Mr Dilip Balu
  161. Name Withheld – Parts A & B; Confidential – Part C
  162. Name withheld
  163. Name withheld
  164. Name withheld
  165. Mr Simon Corbell MLA – Minister for Health, ACT Health
    1. Mr Simon Corbell MLA –Minister for Health, ACT Health
      1. 165AA Mr Simon Corbell MLA – Minister for Health, ACT Health
    2. 165B Mr Simon Corbell MLA – Minister for Health, ACT Health
  166. Australian Institute of Criminology
  167. Australian Medical Association
    1. Australian Medical Association
  168. Australian Polish Community Services
  169. Australian Healthcare Association
  170. Black Dog Institute
  171. Western Australian Network of Alcohol and Other Drug Agencies
  172. Office of the Public Advocate, Victoria
  173. MHCC – Mental Health Co-ordinating Council
  174. Justice Action
  175. Magistrates Court of South Australia - Magistrates Court Diversion Program (mental impairment)
  176. Professor Gavin Andrews
    1. Professor Gavin Andrews
  177. Mr Jon Chesterson
  178. Professor Anthony Jorm
  179. Name withheld
  180. Ms Lina Eve
  181. National Rural Health Alliance Inc
    1. National Rural Health Alliance Inc
  182. Ms Dawn Joyce
  183. Break the Psycle
  184. Ms Diane Williams
  185. Mr Peter Hutten
  186. Centre for Mental Health Research
  187. Australian Health Promotion Association
  188. Name withheld
  189. National Network of Private Psychiatric Sector Consumers and their Carers
    1. National Network of Private Psychiatric Sector Consumers and their Carers
  190. B Eldershaw
  191. Southern Suburbs Taskforce
  192. Name withheld
  193. Mr Vincent Marmont
  194. Name withheld
  195. Name withheld
  196. Name withheld
  197. Brisbane Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Support Group (BOCD Support Group)
  198. Ms Lily Arthur
  199. Mission Australia
  200. Multicultural Mental Health Australia
    1. Multicultural Mental Health Australia
  201. 201 Confidential
  202. Learning & Attentional Disorders Society of WA Inc (LADS)
  203. National Association of Practising Psychiatrists
  204. The Cairnmillar Institute
  205. Confidential
  206. Mental Healthcare Chaplaincy Under the Auspices of Healthcare Chaplaincy Council of Victoria Inc
  207. Ms Merinda Epstein
  208. Name withheld
  209. Ms Loma Pincham
  210. Ms Janine Anderson
  211. YSAS – Youth Substance Abuse Service
  212. Public Health Association of Australia Inc
  213. Confidential
  214. Mental Health Community Coalition of the ACT Consumer and Carer Caucus
    1. Mental Health Community Coalition of the ACT Consumer and Carer Caucus
  215. Ms Maureen Melville
  216. Victorian Transcultural Psychiatry Unit
  217. Centre for Psychiatric Nursing Research and Practice - CPNRP
  218. St Vincent de Paul Society Victoria Inc
  219. New South Wales Branch of the Faculty of Psychiatry of Old Age within the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists
  220. Doctors Reform Society
  221. The Epilepsy Foundation of Victoria Incorporated
  222. Drug Action Information Exchange
  223. Health Services Union
    1. Health Services Union
  224. GROW
    1. Confidential
  225. The National Council of Women of Queensland
  226. Professor Christopher Puplick AM
  227. The Network for Carers of people with a mental illness
  228. Centre of Full Employment and Equity (CofFEE)
  229. Mr Simon Schooneveldt
  230. Mental Health Association NSW Inc
  231. ARAFMI HUNTER
  232. Combined Community Legal Centres Group (NSW)
  233. Ms Roslyn Robertson
  234. The Richmond Fellowships of Australia
  235. Dr Simone Fullagar
  236. Jewish Family Centre
  237. Name withheld
  238. Name withheld
  239. Name withheld
  240. Mr & Mrs Neumann
  241. envision Support Services
  242. Mr Wayne Rudall
  243. Fairfield Local Government Area
  244. Name withheld
  245. Confidential – Attachments 245 The South Australian Country Women's Association Incorporated
  246. Action on Disability within Ethnic Communities Inc
  247. Confidential
  248. Confidential
  249. Name withheld
  250. Friends of Callan Park
    1. Friends of Callan Park
  251. Name withheld
  252. Name withheld
  253. Mr Geoff Waghorn and Mr Chris Lloyd
  254. Police Federation of Australia (PFA)
  255. Dr Georgina Phillips
    1. Dr Georgina Phillips
  256. Welfare Rights Centre, Sydney
  257. Name withheld
  258. Confidential
  259. blueVoices
  260. Psychology Private Australia Inc
    1. Psychology Private Australia Inc
  261. Dr Roger Cribb
  262. Mental Health Council of Australia
    1. Mental Health Council of Australia
  263. Dr Teresa Flower and Dr Robert Adler
  264. Name withheld
  265. Dr Gil Anaf
  266. Richmond Fellowship of New South Wales
  267. Confidential – 13 May 2005-10 February 2006
    Victorian Mental Illness Awareness Council – 10 February 2006
    1. Victorian Mental Illness Awareness Council
  268. Public Advocate, South Australia
  269. Ms Barbara Maison
  270. Ms Samantha Battams
  271. Name withheld
  272. Name withheld
  273. Name withheld
  274. NCOSS – Council of Social Service of New South Wales
  275. Mr Ivan D Carnegy
    1. Mr Ivan D Carnegy
    2. 275B Mr Ivan D Carnegy
  276. Catholic Health Australia
    1. Catholic Health Australia
  277. The Australasian Society for Psychiatric Research
  278. Australian Federal Police
  279. UnitingCare NSW, ACT
  280. ORYGEN Youth Health
  281. Australian Injecting & Illicit Drug Users League
    1. Australian Injecting & Illicit Drug Users League
  282. Ms Nene Henry
  283. Sisters Inside Inc
    1. Sisters Inside Inc
  284. ORYGEN Research Centre
    1. ORYGEN Research Centre
    2. 284B ORYGEN Research Centre
  285. Youth Mental Health Coalition
    1. Youth Mental Health Coalition
    2. 285B Confidential
  286. Mental Carers Network Inc
  287. Mr Carl Armstrong
  288. The Queensland Alliance
  289. Office of the Protective Commissioner
  290. The Queensland Council for Civil Liberties (QCCL)
  291. UnitingCare Australia
  292. Australian Health Insurance Association Ltd
    1. Australian Health Insurance Association Ltd
  293. Schizophrenia Fellowship of Queensland Inc
  294. Australian Medical Council
  295. Pharmacy Guild of Australia
  296. NISAD – Schizophrenia Research
  297. Carers WA
  298. Hume City Council
    1. Hume City Council
  299. Mr Stanley Catts
    1. Mr Stanley Catts
  300. Centre for Social Justice
  301. NIFTeY Australia and The Australian Association for Infant Mental Health
  302. Catholic Welfare Australia
    1. Catholic Welfare Australia
  303. Office of the Public Advocate – Queensland
  304. Uniting Church in Australia Synod of Western Australia
  305. Richmond Fellowship Queensland
  306. Victorian Institute of Forensic Mental Health
  307. Centre for Eating & Dieting Disorders NSW
    Confidential – Attachment 2
    1. Centre for Eating & Dieting Disorders NSW
  308. Australian Divisions of General Practice
  309. Melbourne Health – St Vincent's Health (Melbourne) and North West Mental Health
  310. Women and Mental Health Inc
  311. The Royal Australain College of General Practitioners
  312. The Mental Health Association (Qld) Inc
    1. Confidential
  313. Name withheld
  314. The Mental Health Legal Centre
  315. Council to Homeless Persons
  316. Name withheld
  317. Mr Doug and Ms Janice McIver
    1. Mr Doug and Ms Janice McIver
  318. Ms Rachael Baugh
  319. Families and Friends for Drug Law Reform
    1. Families and Friends for Drug Law Reform
  320. General Practice Mental Health Standards Collaboration
  321. The Association for Australian Rural Nurses, Australian and New Zealand College of Mental Health Nurses and Royal College of Nursing, Australia
    1. The Association for Australian Rural Nurses, Australian and New Zealand College of Mental Health Nurses and Royal College of Nursing, Australia
  322. Australian Mental Health Consumer Network
  323. The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP)
    1. The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP)
  324. St. Vincent's Mental Health Service
  325. Victoria Legal Aid
  326. City of Port Phillip
  327. Australian Federation of Deaf Societies (AFDS)
  328. Name withheld
  329. Lifeline Australia
  330. Legal Aid Commission of New South Wales (Legal Aid NSW)
  331. Ms Gloria Arentz
  332. Dr Jennifer Torr – Centre for Developmental Disability Health Victoria
  333. Disability Council of NSW
  334. Drug-Free Attention Deficit Support Inc
    1. Drug-Free Attention Deficit Support Inc
  335. ACROD
  336. Dr Ron Spielman
  337. Dr Jillian Horton-Hausknecht
  338. Waverley Council
  339. Mr Wayne Chamley
  340. Broken Rites (Australia) Collective Inc
  341. The New South Wales Council for Intellectual Disability
    1. The New South Wales Council for Intellectual Disability
  342. West Heidelberg Community Legal Service
  343. Youth Affairs Council of Victoria Inc
  344. Youth Affairs Council of Victoria Inc – Youth Reference Group
  345. St Luke's Anglicare Limited
  346. General Practice Divisions Victoria
  347. VICSERV (Psychiatric Disability Services of Victoria)
  348. Northern Territory Legal Aid Commission and the Northern Territory Community Visitor Program
  349. Mr Michael Witkowycz
  350. Name withheld
  351. intenionally left blank
  352. Office of the Public Advocate - WA
  353. Blue Care
  354. Mental Illness Education ACT
  355. Confidential
    1. Confidential
  356. Australian Doctors' Fund
  357. Confidential
  358. The Ignatius Centre for social policy and research
  359. Confidential
  360. Confidential
  361. Mr Malcolm Campbell
  362. The Dual Disability Programme (DDP)
  363. beyondblue
  364. Health Consumers' Council
  365. Confidential
  366. Jurgen Hemmerling
  367. Name withheld
    1. Name withheld
  368. Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission
  369. ParaQuad Victoria
  370. Form letter – Care Leavers' submissions
  371. Intentionally left blank
  372. Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (Faculty of Psychiatry of Old Age)
  373. Public Interest Advocacy Centre
  374. Eastern Hume Dual Diagnosis Services
    1. Eastern Hume Dual Diagnosis Services
  375. Name withheld
  376. Department of Health – Government of Western Australia
  377. Queensland Government
    1. Queensland Government
  378. Bio-Balance Health Association Inc
    1. Bio-Balance Health Association Inc
    2. 378B Bio-Balance Health Association Inc
  379. Mr Graham Brereton
  380. Ms Kath O'Brien
  381. Catholic Social Services Victoria
  382. Intentionally left blank
  383. The Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia (PACFA)
  384. Name withheld
  385. Name withheld
  386. Ms Vicki Cowling OAM and Dr Adrian Falkov
  387. Mr David Walshe
    1. Confidential
  388. Mental Illness Fellowship Victoria
  389. Medicines Australia
  390. St Vincents & Mater Health
  391. New South Wales Nurses' Association
  392. Intenionally left blank
  393. Northern Territory Government
    1. Northern Territory Government
  394. Eastern and Central Africa Communities of Victoria Inc
  395. Ms Gladys Berejiklian MP
  396. Dr Tracy Schrader
  397. Forum of Australian Services for Survivors of Torture and Trauma
    1. Forum of Australian Services for Survivors of Torture and Trauma
    2. 397B Forum of Australian Services for Survivors of Torture and Trauma
  398. Professor Henry Brodaty
  399. NSW Commission for Children and Young People
  400. Care Leavers of Australian Network (CLAN)
  401. Mr Raymond Rudd and Professor Henry Jackson
  402. Mental Illness Fellowship of Australian Inc
  403. Hanover Welfare Services
  404. Ms Janine Rod
  405. Confidential
  406. Aboriginal Health & Medical Research Council
  407. Christian Science Committee on Publication
  408. Australian Mental Health Suicide Consumer – Alliance Inc. Club Speranza
    1. Australian Mental Health Suicide Consumer – Alliance Inc. Club Speranza
  409. NT Mental Health Coalition, NTCOSS
    Confidential – Attachments
  410. NSW Farmers Association
  411. Australian College of Psychological Medicine
  412. Mr Sharn Hunkin
  413. Australian Guidance and Counselling Association
  414. Dr R W Lyndon
  415. Name withheld
  416. Mr Ken Payne
  417. Name withheld
  418. Name withheld
  419. CASA – Cancer, Advocacy, Diversity and Social Support
  420. Origins Incorporated Supporting People Separated by Adoption
    1. Ms Jan Brunsdon-Benson-Kashin for Origins Inc
  421. People with Disability Australia
  422. Institute of Psychiatric Evaluation
  423. Ms Debbie Har
  424. The Law Society of South Australia
  425. Suicide Prevention Australia
  426. Queensland Nurses Union
  427. Name withheld
  428. The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Mental Health Committee
  429. Mr Peter Birleson
  430. The Gold Coast Institute of Mental Health
    1. The Gold Coast Institute of Mental Health
  431. Name withheld
  432. Older People's Mental Health Committee - North Coast Area Health Service in New South Wales
  433. Ms Sherry Joynt
  434. Mental Health Foundation of Australia
  435. National Council of Women of Australia Inc Ltd
  436. Mr Peter D Rodgers (This submission not on line)
  437. Mr Robert Golding
  438. Ms Jane Havelka. Charles Sturt University, Faculty of Health Studies – School of Clinical Sciences
  439. Confidential
  440. Mr Stephen Corry
    1. Mr Stephen Corry
  441. Auseinet
  442. Ms Pam Perrott
  443. Name withheld
  444. Name withheld
  445. Victorian Minister for Health – Victorian Government,
    1. Victoria – Department of Human Services
  446. Name withheld
  447. Ms Theresa Richards
  448. P Mason
  449. Name withheld
  450. La Trobe University, Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society
  451. Name withheld
  452. Association for Counselling Psychology
  453. Dr Barbara Tooth
  454. Mr Philip Robertson
  455. The Mental Health Council of Tasmania Inc (ARAFMI – Hobart)
  456. Name withheld
  457. Australian Council of Social Service – ACOSS
  458. Mr Ian W Webster
  459. Name withheld
  460. Name withheld
  461. Ms Dianne Barr
    Confidential – Attachments
  462. Confidential
  463. Queensland Centre for Intellectual & Developmental Disability (QCIDD) Mater Hospital
  464. Anglicare Tasmania
  465. Confidential
  466. The Royal Women's Hospital
  467. Intentionally left blank
  468. Australian Red Cross
  469. Name withheld
  470. NSW Health – NSW Government
    1. NSW Health Department – NSW Response
  471. Name withheld
  472. Mental Health Law Centre WA
  473. Mr David Yan Han
  474. Confidential
  475. depressionNet
  476. Australian Government
    1. Australian Government – Health & Ageing
    2. 476B Australian Government: Employment and Workplace Relations
    3. Australian Government: Child Support Agency
    4. Australian Government: Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs
  477. Mr Glen Patrick Minahan
    1. Mr Glen Patrick Minahan
  478. St Vincent de Paul Society
  479. Australian Psychological Society Ltd. College of Clinical Psychologists. Victorian Section
  480. Name withheld
  481. Confidential
  482. Mr David Copolov
  483. S A V E – Australia Inc
  484. Mr Graeme Bond
  485. Dr Greg Malcher
  486. Central Australian Aboriginal Congress
  487. Confidential
  488. Mr Bruce Hamilton
  489. Confidential
  490. Ms Jan Telfer
  491. Inspire Foundation
  492. Mr Peter K
  493. Confidential
    1. Confidential
    2. 493B Confidential
  494. Citizens Commission on Human Rights (NSW)
  495. Name withheld
  496. Ms Jolan Tobias
  497. Confidential
  498. Ms Allison Ewens
  499. Name withheld
  500. Dr Simon Bridge
  501. Western Australian Department of Education and Training
  502. Tasmanian Government
  503. Probation and Community Corrections Officers' Association Incorporated
    Attachment 6 published as – Name withheld
    Confidential – Attachments 2 & 3, 5 & 11
    1. Probation and Community Corrections Officers' Association Incorporated
  504. Ms Sherry Watson
  505. Queensland Public Tenants Association Inc
  506. Department of Health – South Australia Government
    1. Department of Health – South Australia Government
  507. Shopfront Youth Legal Centre
  508. 508 Ms Christine Hill
  509. Australian Council on Healthcare Standards
  510. Confidential
  511. Name withheld
    1. Confidential
  512. Name withheld
  513. Name withheld
  514. Ms Meaghan Nixon
  515. Name withheld
  516. Name withheld
  517. Name withheld
  518. Name withheld
    1. Name withheld
  519. Name withheld
  520. Name withheld
  521. Mr Kevin Kidd
  522. Confidential
  523. Mr Noel Trevaskis
  524. Confidential
  525. Confidential
  526. Dr Robert Di Nicolantonio
    1. Dr Robert Di Nicolantonio
  527. Orignis Inc – Supporting Inquiry into Mental Health
  528. Confidential
  529. Wirrika Maya Health Service
  530. Citizens Commission on Human Rights (in Victoria Citizens Committee on Human Rights Inc.)
  531. AIDS Council of NSW
  532. Dr J R Clayer
  533. Intentionally left blank
  534. Ms Fay Jackson – Open Minds Consultancy
  535. Mr Edward and Mrs Colleen Kosowicz
  536. ARAFMI Victoria
  537. Ms Jan Kealton
  538. Ms Sue Koningen
  539. Ms Juliet Gibson
    1. Ms Juliet Gibson
  540. Name withheld
  541. Ms Anne Hayres
  542. Name withheld
  543. Name withheld
  544. PANDA – Post and Antenatel Depression Association Inc
  545. Name withheld
  546. Name withheld
  547. Mr David McKinnon
  548. Advocates for Survivors of Child Abuse
  549. Confidential
  550. R Darryl Maybery & Dr Andrea Reupert
  551. Ms Bonnie Trevanion
  552. Name withheld
  553. Gold Coast Drug Council Inc
    1. Gold Coast Drug Council Inc
  554. The Gender Identity Awareness Association
  555. Confidential – Attachments 4 and 5
    Centre Against Sexual Assault – Loddon Campaspe Region
    1. Centre Against Sexual Assault – Loddon Campaspe Region
  556. SOMA Health
  557. Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne
  558. Eastern Health Mental Health Program

Proforma letters

Submissions from care leavers (Submission 370)

The committee received many submissions from people who spent time in institutional and foster care during childhood. Most of these submissions were in the form of a standard letter, to which people added details of the place or places where they were in care. These submissions were each accepted, but listed only once as Submission 370. Where a person also sent a personal submission different to the standard letter, that submission is listed separately.

Submissions regarding mental health funding and the justice system (Submission 154)

Many submitters sent in a standard letter concerning lack of funding for mental health issues, and over-representation of people with mental illness in the criminal justice system. These submissions were each accepted but listed only once, as Submission 154.

Responses to adverse comment

Under Senate resolutions persons who may have been commented upon adversely in evidence are provided the right of reply.

Listed below are responses received to adverse comments made in evidence.

Dr Ruth Vine, Director Mental Health, Victorian Department of Human Services. Response to Submission 195, dated 21 July 2005

Ms Robyn Kruk, Director General, NSW Health. Response to Submission 195, dated 5 August 2005

Dr Ruth Vine, Director Mental Health, Victorian Department of Human Services. Response to Submission 484, dated 30 August 2005

Mr Neil Whittaker, A/g Director General, Queensland Department of Corrective Services. Response to Submission 283, dated 7 September 2006

Mr Neil Whittaker, Deputy Director-General, Queensland Department of Corrective Services. Response to Submission 283A, dated 22 September 2005

Ms Linda Sorrell, Chief Executive, Southern Health. Response to Submission 554, dated 10 March 2006

Mr David McGrath, A/Director, Centre for Mental Health, NSW Health. Response to Submission 535, dated 22 March 2006

Additional information received with answers to questions on notice

Additional information accompanying answers to questions on notice is listed below.

sane Australia

  • Dare to care! SANE Mental Health Report 2004
  • Psychosocial Rehabilitation blueprint
  • Employment and Psychiatric Disability blueprint
  • Carer Education and Training blueprint
  • Care of Older People with a Psychiatric Disability blueprint
  • Planned Respite Care blueprint
  • Supported Accommodation
  • Recreation and Psychiatric Disability

Psychiatric Disability Services of Victoria (VICSERV) Inc

  • VICSERV Membership
  • VICSERV Training
  • VICSERV Being a Keyworker 1 – Establishing the Relationship Participant Guide
  • VICSERV Being a Keyworker III – Goal Setting Participant Course Material
  • Day 2 Session Outline
  • Setting a Rehabilitation Goal
  • Being A Keyworker IV Assessing Client Strengths and Needs Participant Guide
  • VICSERV Being a Keyworker IV Assessing Client Strengths and Needs Tools and Strategies
  • VICSERV Being a Keyworker IV Assessing Client Strengths and Needs Information Sheets

Families and Friends for Drug Law Reform

  • National Families & Community Conference on Drugs "Voices to be Heard"

NSW Farmers Association

  • Clinical Psychology in Rural General Practice: A Pilot of a collaborative model of mental health service delivery Vines, R.F., Hurley, B.M. and Thomson, D.M. – Autumn 2002.
  • What happens when children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder grow up? Journal of the Royal Society of medicine, volume 97, November 2004.
  • Attention ADHD Costs Americans $77 Billion in Lost Income.

Dr Whiting

  • NSW Public Health Bulletin Supplement, volume 15, Number S – 3, August, 2004. Trends in the prescribing of stimulant medication for the treatment of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in adults in NSW.

Australian Mental Health Consumer Network Inc

  • Partnership or Pretence. A handbook of empowerment and self advocacy for consumers of psychiatric services and those who provide or plan those services. A personal contribution to the development of the psychiatric consumer movement in Australia by Janet Meagher AM.

Department of Health – Government of Western Australia

  • Protocol between the Western Australia Police Service and the Mental Health Division of the Health Department of Western Australia.
  • Report on the investigation into mental health and DSPD services for prisoners in England by the Attorney General, Jim McGinty, MLA; Minister for Health and Electoral Affairs 1–11 July 2005.

Australian Principals Associations Professional Development Council

  • Community Matters. Working with diversity for wellbeing. Mind Matters.

The Royal Australian College of General Practice

  • RACGP representation on the various Government and other committees related to mental health.
  • The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners Submission to the Productivity Commission – Review of the Health Workforce in Australia, August 2005.
  • Mental Health Curriculum Statement 4.
  • The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners. The Review of the Curriculum for Australian General Practice 2005/06.

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