'Complete rethink' urged on mental health and welfare

By Judith Ireland
Updated August 28 2014 - 11:08am, first published 10:16am

The nation's peak mental heath body has called for a "complete rethink" of the way the welfare system treats people with mental illness, while rejecting a proposal that only people with "permanent disability" get the disability support pension.

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