Senate debates
Monday, 10 October 2016
Questions without Notice
Health Care: World Mental Health Day
2:24 pm
Fiona Nash (NSW, National Party, Deputy Leader of the Nationals) Share this | Hansard source
What the government is absolutely committed to doing is reducing the suicide rate. There is no doubt that to do that we have to be able to not only have the right policies in place but ensure the funding is there to support those policies, which indeed we have done. I acknowledge the work that the Minister for Health and Aged Care has done in this area over a considerable period of time now. This is not an issue that I think anybody wants to play politics with. This is something across this nation that we on all parts of this chamber are acutely aware of. So, we will continue—
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