Emma McBride (Dobell, Australian Labor Party, Assistant Minister for Mental Health and Suicide Prevention) Share this | Hansard source

I love Taree! Do they still have the Take Five cafe? They do!

Since opening, 22,966 people have received fully-bulk-billed care—100 per cent free. That is an average of more than 200 people a week. But there's more. In 2022 I was in Lismore, where I opened the Medicare Mental Health Centre, with walk-in mental health support and care from clinicians and peer workers. It is also open seven days a week, over extended hours. I can share with the member for Page and this House that the Lismore Medicare Mental Health Centre has the highest number of occasions of care of all the 18 centres currently open in New South Wales. Just last year the Lismore Medicare Mental Health Centre provided 34,727 occasions of care—all completely free, at no cost to the member for Page's constituents.

It's our government that is delivering completely free, Medicare backed services for people all around the country.

I would say to the member for Page: be more like the member for Riverina and embrace these services in your community. The member for Riverina welcomed me to his community and joined me at the new Wagga Wagga—

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