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To mark Mental Health Month the Alliance is pleased to invite you to a LIVE online interview with Brian Burdekin AO – the Commissioner who put human rights before politics. Brian Burdekin AO is central to the consumer movement because he made people with lived experience the authors of the evidence, not the subjects of it. We will also take you through the results of our 2nd Human Rights Survey.
VMIAC Youth Affinity Group explored young people’s experiences of homelessness and mental health, while BEING’s Older Persons Mental Health Affinity Group presented work toward Australia’s first national guide for older consumers. Together, the projects show how lived experience can expose service gaps and shape practical national resources.
LELAN Voices for Change shared work on language, bias and systemic impact, showing how labels can travel across services and increase surveillance, restriction and loss of trust. Their project will combine case study analysis, jurisdictional comparison and lived experience survey findings to support advocacy, training and safer practice.
WA outlined a campaign to have lived experience peer workers formally recognised in Australia’s occupation classifications, helping make peer work visible, fundable and embedded. VMIAC reframed loneliness as a policy failure shaped by housing, income and community infrastructure, calling for coordinated, upstream reform beyond clinical services.
BEING Mental Health Consumers highlighted the limits of Medicare’s 10-session plan, MHLEPQ called for lived experience governance in national partnership agreements, and the ACT group proposed peer worker facilitated relational support groups to address social isolation. Each project turns consumer insight into concrete policy and service reform.
BEING Mental Health Consumers highlighted the limits of Medicare’s 10-session plan, MHLEPQ called for lived experience governance in national partnership agreements, and the ACT group proposed peer worker facilitated relational support groups to address social isolation. Each project turns consumer insight into concrete policy and service reform.
