Kylea Tink (North Sydney, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Health and Aged Care: In last night's budget the government outlined the pressures Australians are under following multiple crises—COVID, natural disasters—as well as forecasting the dire cost-of-living pressures to come. Indeed, in the past year alone, two million Australians have accessed Medicare funded psychology sessions. Can the minister please explain to us and to those in the community who need mental health support why the budget did not include an extension of the vital additional 10 Medicare funded psychology sessions, which will now expire at the end of December?

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