Email from Getup:
I hope this finds you enjoying a lovely Easter break. It has been an incredible few days for our mental health campaign so I want to share a quick update.
It started on Wednesday. Our full page newspaper ad featuring thousands of photos submitted by GetUp members called on the Government to deliver more funding for mental health. The evening news ran images of our ad and reporters directly asked Julia Gillard to respond.
Then on Thursday Professor Patrick McGorry and I met with Treasurer Wayne Swan and presented him with GetUp’s 100000 strong petition. For the second day in a row our campaign made national news. At the same time Tony Abbott announced an increase in the Opposition’s commitments to mental health funding.
Now it looks like our campaign is about to translate into real results. Channel 10 reported that mental health funding may be the centrepiece spending initiative in the upcoming Federal Budget.