Mental health legal service
David calls for mental health lawyers to be granted access to records to ensure fair Mental Health Tribunal hearings and rights in compulsory treatment.
Cohealth funding
David calls for the government to secure Cohealth GP services in Victoria, with long-term funding reform to protect community health and integrated care.
Mental Health Royal Commission reforms
David questions the Minister for Mental Health on progress towards implimenting recommendations of the Mental Health Royal Commission and housing for Victorians with mental illness.
Save Cohealth
David supports a motion calling for the reversal of Cohealth cuts, and for the state and federal governments to provide urgent funding.
West Melbourne overlooked in Labor’s $1b mental health funding pledge: LCV
Western Metro MP David Ettershank wants to know why Melbourne’s west only got a meagre share of the $1 billion Labor committed to delivering free, public mental health care if re-elected.
Safe Patient Care Amendment Bill
David speaks in support of a bill which aims to boost nurse and midwife staffing ratios to improve patient care in hospitals.
Message of support from medicinal cannabis patient
David shares a heartfelt message from a medicinal cannabis patient about how cannabis helps with their ADHD, and how the new magistrates discretion has reduced their anxiety about losing their drivers licence.
Mental health worker EBA
David accuses the government of stalling on the mental health workforce enterprise bargaining agreement (EBA).
Mental health nurses
David calls on the government to release long-awaited OH&S regulations for mentally safe workplaces. He speaks about what mental health nurses deal with on a daily basis, and the need to protect them.
Mental health hubs delayed
David questions the Minister for Mental Health on delays to rolling out more mental health hubs.
