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Monsignor Cappo to head mental health reform commission

Published: September 06, 2011

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Australia's first mental health reform commission will be headed by Monsignor David Cappo, who has a strong background in social reform, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.

Monsignor Cappo's first task will be to oversee the commission's preparation of the inaugural annual report card into the state of mental health and suicide prevention in Australia.

Federal Mental Health Minister Mark Butler said Monsignor Cappo, who is South Australia's Commissioner for Social Inclusion, had ''the knowledge and experience required to lead the commission, and drive the long-term reforms necessary to improve the lives of people with a mental illness''.

Monsignor Cappo said: ''The new commission will ... allow us to properly measure and independently report on what is happening in Australia's mental health system - with the needs and experiences of consumers and carers placed at the very centre.''

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  1. An excellent appointment ... and an excellent example of where Church and State can use its best professional resources in a part of our health system crying out for assistance.

  2. I wonder how many people on this commission have ever survived serious mental illness, and still grapple
    with it on a daily basis but no one would ever know?

  3. Mon. Cappo seemns to be a very talented man but surely it is not appopriate to bring a religious element into such an important secular area? Why set the position up for hostility straight away?

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