Rachel Siewert (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you. It is an issue that I will continue to follow up. Can I move on to mental health. The parliamentary secretary will be aware—and I am sure the minister is also aware—that this issue came up during the committee inquiry. That is, the issue of the process of recovery, which is the focus of mental health, and around the issues of recovery rather than seeing disability as an ongoing permanent disability. It was raised a number of times. While I think some people are pretty clear about it there is still a lot of concern, because mental health takes a recovery approach, as to whether it will be included for those people who are very strongly in their pain process looking at a recovery approach.