Senator the Hon Brett Mason - Media Items
Listed below are media items for Senator the Hon Brett Mason, Former Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Health and Ageing
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Previous MinistersApril 2007
30 April 2007
$190m boost to mental health care
Patients with severe mental illnesses will receive extra support each year from specialist mental health nurses as a result of a $191 million, five-year Australian Government program launched on 30 April.
29 April 2007
Opening address Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists 2007 Congress Gold Coast 29 April – 3 May 2007
14 April 2007
Headspace youth service opens in southern Melbourne
Australia's first headspace youth service, to help young people with mental health, drug and alcohol problems, is opening in southern Melbourne.
11 April 2007
New director for chemical safety scheme
Dr Marion Healy has been appointed the new director of the Australian Government’s industrial chemical safety regulator, the National Industrial Chemicals Notification and Assessment Scheme (NICNAS).
05 April 2007
Major APEC food safety cooperation agreement signed
APEC economies have agreed to a new plan for improving food safety at the APEC Food Safety Cooperation Forum in the Hunter Valley, New South Wales. This is the first time food safety regulators have been involved in APEC.
02 April 2007
New therapeutic products exposure Bill released
The public is invited to comment on an exposure draft of the Australian Therapeutic Products Bill 2007, released on 2 April by the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Health and Ageing, Senator Brett Mason.