Secretive Mental Health Review Tribunal
Queenslanders should be shocked to learn of the total disarray engulfing the secretive Mental Health Review Tribunal under this do-nothing Palaszczuk Labor Government.
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Claims of unlawful appointments, nepotism and thousands of client cases still under a cloud are symptoms of a mental health system in crisis.
How can we have confidence in a system that operates in secret and is accountable to no one?
In Parliament recently we saw Labor’s Health Minister Cameron Dick ram through legislation to protect the secretive mental health tribunal process at the expense of families who have lost loved ones at the hands of patients released by the tribunal.
Queenslanders have also been left in the dark over revelations of a dodgy appointment that Mr Dick was aware of back in December and did nothing about until now.
What has been revealed over the last few months is a mental health tribunal in meltdown and a Labor Government that is doing nothing about it.
Simply rushing through amendments to correct a major legal bungle will do nothing to answer many of the questions left unanswered.
Queenslanders deserve to have confidence in our mental health system.
It’s time Annastacia Palaszcuzk and her Health Minister offered the transparency and accountability Queenslanders expect and deserve from their Government.
John-Paul Langbroek
LNP Shadow Minister for Health
Born Free
All children are born atheists.
They only get religious when their parents start lying to them.
Children have to be taught to hate.
George Harley
Mount Isa
Not all FIFO is bad for the North West
Wow, the Mount Isa airport just spent millions on the new carpark and upgrade and Cloncurry too.
Now this is done on the back of FIFO.
The fact the Cloncury hospital gets three times the admissions as per population would be good for business.
Why do the stories on FIFO be labelled against the mines when there are many other services not mining?
Johnny Freeman
Penalty rates
Great editorial today (North West Star editorial, February 28) on the Fair Work Commissions determination on penalty rates.
It was very thoughtful and balanced.
Your fearless independence is really showing leadership.
Ian Macdonald
Senator for Queensland
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Readers paid their respect to Mount Isa trucker Owen Ringrose who died on March 4, aged 67.
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Derek Barry
Editor of the North West Star Mount Isa since January 2016. Prior to that, an editor at several regional southern Queensland newspapers. Passionate about telling local stories. Comes with a strange accent to due an Irish accident of birth.
Editor of the North West Star Mount Isa since January 2016. Prior to that, an editor at several regional southern Queensland newspapers. Passionate about telling local stories. Comes with a strange accent to due an Irish accident of birth.
