Quarter of young have mental disorder

The Australian reports that mental health issues are rife among Australia's young people, with one in four aged 16-24 affected.

Yet fewer than a quarter of those 671,000 sufferers used mental health services in the previous year, the latest Australian Bureau of Statistics research finds.See the rest of the article here.

Tony Abbott unveiled a policy to assist mental health services for young people. Labor so far have been silent.

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