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We know that mental health system in the country, let alone the state, has been under huge challenge before the pandemic. That’s why we called a royal commission.

We saw during the course of, right across the country, the reports of how presentations, particularly for young people, whether they be community or acute services, had gone up.

That’s why the royal commission’s recommendations that were adopted by the Victorian government specifically fund and commit to arrangements to address precisely that issue, and that’s why when it comes to the work that all the states put to national cabinet last Friday, on hospital demand, one of the biggest areas of increased demand right across the country, the Ambulance Victoria, ambulance callouts, presentations and emergency departments and presentations at community settings is mental health challenges and particularly issues for young people with mental health, this is a national crisis in our system, we welcome the royal commission’s recommendations, we welcome the work done by all the national health commissioner.