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The Productivity Commission says mental ill-health costs Australia billions — it's time for a proper investment in making things better

  • Written by Anthony Jorm, Professor emeritus, University of Melbourne
The Productivity Commission says mental ill-health costs Australia billions — it's time for a proper investment in making things betterDmitry Osipenko/Unsplash, CC BY-SA

The Productivity Commission’s report on mental health, released earlier this week, prompted headlines emphasising the huge economic cost of mental ill-health and suicide in Australia.

The commission estimated the direct economic costs at between A$43 billion and A$70 billion, with an additional A$151 billion...

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