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Pre Budget Submission 2010/11
Use this letter template to write to your local Member of Parliament- let them know what you want funded in the Budget.
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  • Bold Ideas, Better Lives ChallengeNew Item
  • Applications open!! Got a bold idea for creating better lives for people in Australia?
    Want access to amazing mentors and a bucket of cash (up to $1 million) to get your idea off the ground?
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  • New mental health services for refugeesNew Item
  • 03/03/2010
    Joint Media Release from The Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, Jenny Macklin with Maxine McKew MP, Member for Bennelong
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  • Mental health system in crisis: McGorry - ABC Lateline InterviewNew Item
  • Read the transcript of the interview here.
    Mental health expert and Australian of the Year professor Patrick McGorry tells Lateline why he has asked the Government to implement a massive overhaul of the mental health system.
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  • Young People with Mental Illness Given Time OutNew Item
  • Queensland Alliance, YFS Logan & Aftercare Media Release, 9 March 2010
    The Queensland Alliance; Youth and Family Service (YFS) Logan; and a collaborative of four community organisations in Cairns led by Aftercare; welcome today’s $6.4M announcement that the Queensland Government will fund two ‘Time Out’ houses for young people with mental illness.
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  • WIN 4 Day Gold Pass- Happiness and its Causes ConferenceNew Item
  • Complete our quick website survey before Tuesday 16 March to WIN!
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  • Calls for Expressions of Interest for Mentors
  • Community Mental Health Leadership Program
    An initiative of the Queensland Alliance and the Community Services Skilling Plan
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  • "CALD People's Access to Services" Survey
  • QCOSS
    This survey is designed to gather specific feedback about culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) people’s access to services.
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  • National Health Reform - Next Step Mental Health
  • Media Release from Mental Health Council of Australia 3/3/2010
    Mental Health Council fo Australia call for Mental Health Reform following the release of the Prime Ministers Health Policy statement today
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  • Mental Health Works
  • NOW ONLINE
    Mental Health Works contains practical and evidence based workplace strategies and rights and responsibilities for people who have experienced mental illness and their employers.
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  • State’s Mental Health System Struggling
  • Media release from Shadow Minister for Health
    The mental health system in Queensland is struggling and the treatment of those who suffer from a mental illness needs improvement.
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  • Minds At Risk
  • SBS Insight- Transcript
    A special Insight with Australian of the Year Patrick McGorry. Pat McGorrys’ speciality is treating young people with mental illnesses and he's not at all happy with the way the system is working...
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  • Mount Isa Indigenous Mentoring Program
  • Scoping Study to Inform the Establishment of a New Peak National Mental Health Consumer Organisation
  • Contribution of the Not-for-Profit Sector Research Report
  • Released on 11 February 2010
    The not-for-profit (NFP) sector is large and diverse, with around 600 000
     organisations.
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  • FOUR CORNERS program, “Breaking Point”
  • ABC TV, Monday 15 February
    The heart-rending story that tells what it's like to live with a disability, or to care for someone who is disabled, in Australia today. Reporter Wendy Carlisle meets the families the nation has neglected.
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  • GFC hits services struggling to meet needs of disadvantaged Queenslanders
  • Queensland Council of Social Services (QCOSS)
    Community services struggling- one in ten Queenslanders looking for help are turned away.
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  • Electronic Resources
  • Are you seeking information or research?
    The Queensland Alliance website has an extensive selection of electronic resources and links. See the red menu above.
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Positions Vacant


  • Program to help people with a mental illness find and keep a job
  • 112 new offices tasked with assisting people with mental health issues to choose, find and keep employment.
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  • PROJECT OFFICER (Readvertised)
  • Mental Health Skills Formation Strategy
    As Project Officer, you will be responsible for coordinating our new mental health workforce project.
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