Assistant Minister McBride's media

New and expecting parents can now get free mental health care, with the opening of an Australian Government-funded perinatal mental health centre in Hobart.

South Australians living in the northern suburbs now have access to free, walk-in mental health support with a new Medicare Mental Health Centre in Elizabeth opening officially today.

Read the transcript from Minister Butler and Assistant Minister McBride about a new Medicare Mental Health Centre opening in northern Adelaide, Medicare Urgent Care Clinics and pressure on hospitals.

Read the transcript of Assistant Minister McBride's interview with Jaynie Seal on nuclear power and mental health funding.

Professor Jenny May AM has been appointed Australia’s National Rural Health Commissioner.

A new headspace centre will open in Oran Park in south-west Sydney in 2025.

A new headspace centre will open in Edmondson Park in south-west Sydney in the coming months.

Assistant Minister for Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Emma McBride visited the Liverpool Medicare Mental Health Centre.

The Riverina will soon have access to free, walk-in mental health support with Medicare Mental Health Centres opening in Wagga Wagga and Young later this year.

Since the doors opened to headspace Wagga Wagga in 2008 and Griffith in 2016, they’ve offered vital support to young people across the Riverina.

Read the transcript from Assistant Minister McBride's press conference which covered the Medicare Mental Health Centres in Wagga Wagga and Young.

Read the transcript of Assistant Minister McBride's interview with Sally Bryant on new Medicare Mental Health Centres in Wagga Wagga and Young; headspace services.

A new Medicare Mental Health Centre is now open in Shellharbour, providing free access to quality mental health care and support for people living in the region.

Young people in Shellharbour in need of mental health care and support are now able to access services at headspace Shellharbour, which is now open.

The Medicare Mental Health Centre in Cessnock is providing a safe and welcoming place for locals to get mental health information, services and support.

The Medicare Urgent Care Clinic in Cessnock, NSW is delivering quality patient care while taking pressure off the local hospital.

Read the transcript from Assistant Minister McBride's doorstop on the Cessnock Medicare Urgent Care Clinic, Medicare Mental Health Centres and Medicare Urgent Care Clinics.

Read Assistant Minister McBride's speech to the Mental Health Australia Members Policy Forum

More social workers, occupational therapists and psychology students and graduates are training and starting their careers where they are needed the most through the Australian Government’s headspace Early Career Program (ECP).

More medical students will be trained and encouraged to work in Central Queensland with the Australian Government investing $8.8 million to fund an expanded University of Queensland (UQ) medical school program in Rockhampton, in partnership with Central Queensland University.

The Australian Government is boosting support for the successful Rockhampton Medicare Urgent Care Clinic so more locals can get quality, walk-in and fully bulk billed care.

Central Queenslanders will soon have a safe and welcoming place when they need extra support with their mental health.

Read the transcript from Assistant Minister McBride's interview on ABC Capricornia which covered Rockhampton's new Medicare Mental Health Centre, Medicare Urgent Care Clinics and the health workforce.

The Australian Government is working in collaboration with the Queensland Government to deliver greater access to mental health support and care with more centres scheduled to open across the state later this year.

Read the transcript of Assistant Minister McBride's interview with Caroline Perryman on the federal budget; mental health; energy bill relief; housing.