31 July 2025
In early 2025, the Australian Government asked the Productivity Commission to conduct a final review of the National Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Agreement. CHF provided an initial submission to the Review in March 2025.
In June 2025, the Productivity Commission released an Interim Report, and this final submission focuses on responding to the recommendations and requests for information made in that Report.
Overall, CHF strongly supports the key findings and recommendations of the Interim Report. We agree that the current Agreement has not led to meaningful change and lacks clear objectives and achievable, measurable outcomes. There is a clear need for a new approach to the next Agreement, one that is grounded in meaningful co-design with those with lived experience, their carers, families and kin, and the broader mental health sector.
