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Australian Government Mental Health Publications

Last update: 7 February 2008,
by Maureen Bell



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Overseas Publications - government publications from other countries, and some commercially published texts

Mental Health Resources by Topic

Mental Health Statistics

On this page you will find government mental health documents, and major mental health reports. Further reports on specific mental health problems and issues can be found under individual topics. Links to general health material are on my public health page.

An alphabetical list of online publications currently available from the Commonwealth Government's Mental Health Branch is here.

publications.gov.au enables you to search for publications from Australian Government websites and Australian libraries using any combination of information about the publication including all or part of the title, publisher name or ISBN.

Gambling Patterns in South Australians and Associated Health Indicators
Prepared for the Strategic Planning and Policy Division, Department of Human Services, South Australia, May 2001, by Anne Taylor and others.

Mental Health (AIHW)
This is the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare's portal to mental health information.

Mental Health Status of South Australians, October 1997
Mental health status of South Australians : October 1997 / Anne Taylor, Eleonora Dal Grande, Jacqueline Parsons. Adelaide, S. Aust. : SERCIS, Behavioural Epidemiology Unit Epidemiology Branch, Public & Environmental Health Service, SA Health Commission, 1997.

Multicultural Mental Health Australia - Books and Resources
Full text of a range of publications is available free from this site.

National Inquiry into the Human Rights of People with Mental Illness
Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, 1993. The complete report is available at this site.

Not for Service: Experiences of Injustice and Despair in Mental Health Care in Australia
Mental Health Council of Australia, Canberra, 2005. This document is the successor to the 1993 Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission's National Inquiry into the Human Rights of People with Mental Illness ('Burdekin Report'). It details personal stories of people with mental illness, and their families and carers, and the difficulties they encountered in finding appropriate care.

Parliament of Australia. Senate Select Committee on Mental Health
On this page you will find the full text of submissions to the Senate Select Committee on Mental Health (Parliament of Australia), as well as public hearings and transcripts, and instructions on how to lodge a submission. Parliament of Australia. Senate Select Committee on Mental Health. The first report A national approach to mental health – from crisis to community, published in March 2006, is available here.

South Australia. Department of Health. Mental Health Unit. Publications
The full text of many documents is available from this site.