Gavin Marshall (Victoria, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

The President has received a letter from Senator Fifield proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the Senate for discussion, namely:

The Gillard Government’s failure to properly fund mental health services, increasing pressure on public hospitals and emergency departments and leaving hundreds of thousands of Australian with mental health illnesses untreated.

I call upon those senators who approve of the proposed discussion to rise in their places.

More than the number of senators required by the standing orders having risen in their places—