The 23 Big Issues were inititally developed at the 2000 TheMHS Consumer Forum in Adelaide and reviewed in Townsville in 2006 and Sydney in 2010.
One of the crucial ingredients in getting a better outcome for people with mental illness is firstly making sure we understand the issues of importance for them, and secondly letting everyone know what the issues are and what should be done about them.
This means we need to collect information from the people involved: those with mental illness; those that care for them; those that provide services to them; and those that make policy about mental health. In Australia these issues have appeared in a long list of reports, including the 1992 ‘Burdekin’ Report, 1994 National Community Advisory Group Report; “Let’s talk about Action” and the 2005 Mental Health Council of Australia (MHCA) (in association with the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission) “Not for Service” Report, all express the failure in the mental health system and the need for change for services in Australia.
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