❓ A parliamentary question regarding the support provided to the Nundle family in Esperance after multiple suicides. The Minister provides details of services offered and actions taken, while also cautioning against sensationalising such tragedies.
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NUNDLE FAMILY — SUICIDES
I refer to the report in The West Australian on 8 June about the case of Angela Nundle from Esperance who has now lost three of her children to suicide. The most recent was her daughter Cheryl, who took her own life on 18 May 2011, just over two weeks after her 14-year-old sister Holly killed herself in April. (1) Which government department, agency or service provider had met with Angela Nundle prior to 18 May 2011? (2) Which government department, agency or service provider has met with Angela Nundle since 18 May 2011? (3) What support has been given to Angela Nundle and her family by the Mental Health Commission, any other agency or service provider to help the Nundle family deal with their grief? (4) Which agency or service provider in Esperance is responsible for providing Angela Nundle with the help that she requires, and can the minister provide the name of a contact person that she should meet? (5) Why is funding for mental health and suicide prevention not finding its way to the grassroots? Hon HELEN MORTON
I refer to the report in The West Australian on 8 June about the case of Angela Nundle from Esperance who has now lost three of her children to suicide. The most recent was her daughter Cheryl, who took her own life on 18 May 2011, just over two weeks after her 14-year-old sister Holly killed herself in April. (1) Which government department, agency or service provider had met with Angela Nundle prior to 18 May 2011? (2) Which government department, agency or service provider has met with Angela Nundle since 18 May 2011? (3) What support has been given to Angela Nundle and her family by the Mental Health Commission, any other agency or service provider to help the Nundle family deal with their grief? (4) Which agency or service provider in Esperance is responsible for providing Angela Nundle with the help that she requires, and can the minister provide the name of a contact person that she should meet? (5) Why is funding for mental health and suicide prevention not finding its way to the grassroots? Hon HELEN MORTON
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I thank the honourable member for some notice of the question. (1)–(5) These are probably the questions that needed to be asked before the member made comments during members’ statements yesterday or whenever it was with relatively little information. Hon Sue Ellery : It never used to stop you. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : Yeah, nothing ever stopped you, but I didn’t do it intentionally. Hon HELEN MORTON : I am glad to hear that because I am going to make a few comments about that. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us hear the answer. Hon HELEN MORTON : We are publicly discussing very vulnerable families in highly emotional times. These people are quite distressed, as the member knows. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : They’re desperate for services, minister. Hon HELEN MORTON : The member will hear about that in a minute. She needs to understand — The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us get the answer without a to-and-fro tennis match between a couple of members. Minister, address your answer through the Chair and I will not interrupt you. Hon HELEN MORTON : It is for these reasons that as politicians but, more importantly, as people we have a responsibility to ensure that when we speak of suicide and individual loss, we recognise the grief and the raw emotion associated with each and every loss and we act and speak in a manner that is befitting the grief and anguish that these people are experiencing at the time. I ask all members of Parliament who either have information or want to know information about a family in similar circumstances to the family Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich mentioned to make contact with my office. We can provide members with as much information as we can possibly get. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : I made contact with you about Eddie Dayeh and he lost his house. Hon HELEN MORTON : Just a minute! My staff are highly professional, very competent and very capable of providing that type of information sensitively. It would be appropriate for members to get that type of information before they make grandiose, sensational statements about people and the tragedies they are experiencing. In the case of the Nundle family, I am advised that the Goldfields mental health service of the WA Country Health Service was in contact with Mrs Nundle’s daughter Cheryl on 12 May and again on 13 May 2011. Cheryl was offered an appointment but that was declined at the time. The Nundle family from Esperance has been offered and accepted support from WA Country Health Service’s Esperance Community Mental Health unit, which has acted, where possible, as a bridge to services and has made contact with one elder from the family to provide information on the support that is available. Another elder from the community has visited the mental health service clinic and is encouraging family members to access the service if care is needed. Escare is a community-based organisation in Esperance that has been providing daily support to the family, including home visits, for some months prior to Cheryl being referred to the WA Country Health Service’s Esperance Community Mental Health facility. Centrecare has taken the lead in providing grief counselling to the family and continues to maintain contact with the family. I am advised that an Aboriginal health worker has made contact with the family. Bega Garnbirringu Health Service is sending an Aboriginal health worker to Esperance to meet the Nundle family to advise the family on the type of support it may need. The local police and Esperance District Hospital are aware of the situation and are being vigilant over the family members or others known to the family who may present to them with a lowered mood, grief reactions and suicidal ideations. Through the ongoing implementation of the WA suicide prevention strategy, a community action plan is being developed in Esperance. As I have mentioned previously, the community action plans are uniquely created and owned by each community to reflect their own culturally specific needs. The aim of the Esperance CAP is to create a sustainable long-term suicide prevention plan that develops through a process of community engagement with individuals, families and communities. I reiterate that this is the question the member needed to ask before she — Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : I will be checking the dates, don’t you worry. This has happened since this matter was raised in this chamber by me. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon HELEN MORTON : The member is suggesting that the information provided to me by the agencies involved is incorrect. The member continues to astound me with her lack of sensitivity and tact in this area.
(1) Which government department, agency or service provider had met with Angela Nundle prior to 18 May 2011? (2) Which government department, agency or service provider has met with Angela Nundle since 18 May 2011? (3) What support has been given to Angela Nundle and her family by the Mental Health Commission, any other agency or service provider to help the Nundle family deal with their grief? (4) Which agency or service provider in Esperance is responsible for providing Angela Nundle with the help that she requires, and can the minister provide the name of a contact person that she should meet? (5) Why is funding for mental health and suicide prevention not finding its way to the grassroots? Hon HELEN MORTON replied: I thank the honourable member for some notice of the question. (1)–(5) These are probably the questions that needed to be asked before the member made comments during members’ statements yesterday or whenever it was with relatively little information. Hon Sue Ellery : It never used to stop you. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : Yeah, nothing ever stopped you, but I didn’t do it intentionally. Hon HELEN MORTON : I am glad to hear that because I am going to make a few comments about that. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us hear the answer. Hon HELEN MORTON : We are publicly discussing very vulnerable families in highly emotional times. These people are quite distressed, as the member knows. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : They’re desperate for services, minister. Hon HELEN MORTON : The member will hear about that in a minute. She needs to understand — The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us get the answer without a to-and-fro tennis match between a couple of members. Minister, address your answer through the Chair and I will not interrupt you. Hon HELEN MORTON : It is for these reasons that as politicians but, more importantly, as people we have a responsibility to ensure that when we speak of suicide and individual loss, we recognise the grief and the raw emotion associated with each and every loss and we act and speak in a manner that is befitting the grief and anguish that these people are experiencing at the time. I ask all members of Parliament who either have information or want to know information about a family in similar circumstances to the family Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich mentioned to make contact with my office. We can provide members with as much information as we can possibly get. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : I made contact with you about Eddie Dayeh and he lost his house. Hon HELEN MORTON : Just a minute! My staff are highly professional, very competent and very capable of providing that type of information sensitively. It would be appropriate for members to get that type of information before they make grandiose, sensational statements about people and the tragedies they are experiencing. In the case of the Nundle family, I am advised that the Goldfields mental health service of the WA Country Health Service was in contact with Mrs Nundle’s daughter Cheryl on 12 May and again on 13 May 2011. Cheryl was offered an appointment but that was declined at the time. The Nundle family from Esperance has been offered and accepted support from WA Country Health Service’s Esperance Community Mental Health unit, which has acted, where possible, as a bridge to services and has made contact with one elder from the family to provide information on the support that is available. Another elder from the community has visited the mental health service clinic and is encouraging family members to access the service if care is needed. Escare is a community-based organisation in Esperance that has been providing daily support to the family, including home visits, for some months prior to Cheryl being referred to the WA Country Health Service’s Esperance Community Mental Health facility. Centrecare has taken the lead in providing grief counselling to the family and continues to maintain contact with the family. I am advised that an Aboriginal health worker has made contact with the family. Bega Garnbirringu Health Service is sending an Aboriginal health worker to Esperance to meet the Nundle family to advise the family on the type of support it may need. The local police and Esperance District Hospital are aware of the situation and are being vigilant over the family members or others known to the family who may present to them with a lowered mood, grief reactions and suicidal ideations. Through the ongoing implementation of the WA suicide prevention strategy, a community action plan is being developed in Esperance. As I have mentioned previously, the community action plans are uniquely created and owned by each community to reflect their own culturally specific needs. The aim of the Esperance CAP is to create a sustainable long-term suicide prevention plan that develops through a process of community engagement with individuals, families and communities. I reiterate that this is the question the member needed to ask before she — Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : I will be checking the dates, don’t you worry. This has happened since this matter was raised in this chamber by me. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon HELEN MORTON : The member is suggesting that the information provided to me by the agencies involved is incorrect. The member continues to astound me with her lack of sensitivity and tact in this area.
(2) Which government department, agency or service provider has met with Angela Nundle since 18 May 2011? (3) What support has been given to Angela Nundle and her family by the Mental Health Commission, any other agency or service provider to help the Nundle family deal with their grief? (4) Which agency or service provider in Esperance is responsible for providing Angela Nundle with the help that she requires, and can the minister provide the name of a contact person that she should meet? (5) Why is funding for mental health and suicide prevention not finding its way to the grassroots? Hon HELEN MORTON replied: I thank the honourable member for some notice of the question. (1)–(5) These are probably the questions that needed to be asked before the member made comments during members’ statements yesterday or whenever it was with relatively little information. Hon Sue Ellery : It never used to stop you. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : Yeah, nothing ever stopped you, but I didn’t do it intentionally. Hon HELEN MORTON : I am glad to hear that because I am going to make a few comments about that. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us hear the answer. Hon HELEN MORTON : We are publicly discussing very vulnerable families in highly emotional times. These people are quite distressed, as the member knows. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : They’re desperate for services, minister. Hon HELEN MORTON : The member will hear about that in a minute. She needs to understand — The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us get the answer without a to-and-fro tennis match between a couple of members. Minister, address your answer through the Chair and I will not interrupt you. Hon HELEN MORTON : It is for these reasons that as politicians but, more importantly, as people we have a responsibility to ensure that when we speak of suicide and individual loss, we recognise the grief and the raw emotion associated with each and every loss and we act and speak in a manner that is befitting the grief and anguish that these people are experiencing at the time. I ask all members of Parliament who either have information or want to know information about a family in similar circumstances to the family Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich mentioned to make contact with my office. We can provide members with as much information as we can possibly get. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : I made contact with you about Eddie Dayeh and he lost his house. Hon HELEN MORTON : Just a minute! My staff are highly professional, very competent and very capable of providing that type of information sensitively. It would be appropriate for members to get that type of information before they make grandiose, sensational statements about people and the tragedies they are experiencing. In the case of the Nundle family, I am advised that the Goldfields mental health service of the WA Country Health Service was in contact with Mrs Nundle’s daughter Cheryl on 12 May and again on 13 May 2011. Cheryl was offered an appointment but that was declined at the time. The Nundle family from Esperance has been offered and accepted support from WA Country Health Service’s Esperance Community Mental Health unit, which has acted, where possible, as a bridge to services and has made contact with one elder from the family to provide information on the support that is available. Another elder from the community has visited the mental health service clinic and is encouraging family members to access the service if care is needed. Escare is a community-based organisation in Esperance that has been providing daily support to the family, including home visits, for some months prior to Cheryl being referred to the WA Country Health Service’s Esperance Community Mental Health facility. Centrecare has taken the lead in providing grief counselling to the family and continues to maintain contact with the family. I am advised that an Aboriginal health worker has made contact with the family. Bega Garnbirringu Health Service is sending an Aboriginal health worker to Esperance to meet the Nundle family to advise the family on the type of support it may need. The local police and Esperance District Hospital are aware of the situation and are being vigilant over the family members or others known to the family who may present to them with a lowered mood, grief reactions and suicidal ideations. Through the ongoing implementation of the WA suicide prevention strategy, a community action plan is being developed in Esperance. As I have mentioned previously, the community action plans are uniquely created and owned by each community to reflect their own culturally specific needs. The aim of the Esperance CAP is to create a sustainable long-term suicide prevention plan that develops through a process of community engagement with individuals, families and communities. I reiterate that this is the question the member needed to ask before she — Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : I will be checking the dates, don’t you worry. This has happened since this matter was raised in this chamber by me. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon HELEN MORTON : The member is suggesting that the information provided to me by the agencies involved is incorrect. The member continues to astound me with her lack of sensitivity and tact in this area.
(3) What support has been given to Angela Nundle and her family by the Mental Health Commission, any other agency or service provider to help the Nundle family deal with their grief? (4) Which agency or service provider in Esperance is responsible for providing Angela Nundle with the help that she requires, and can the minister provide the name of a contact person that she should meet? (5) Why is funding for mental health and suicide prevention not finding its way to the grassroots? Hon HELEN MORTON replied: I thank the honourable member for some notice of the question. (1)–(5) These are probably the questions that needed to be asked before the member made comments during members’ statements yesterday or whenever it was with relatively little information. Hon Sue Ellery : It never used to stop you. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : Yeah, nothing ever stopped you, but I didn’t do it intentionally. Hon HELEN MORTON : I am glad to hear that because I am going to make a few comments about that. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us hear the answer. Hon HELEN MORTON : We are publicly discussing very vulnerable families in highly emotional times. These people are quite distressed, as the member knows. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : They’re desperate for services, minister. Hon HELEN MORTON : The member will hear about that in a minute. She needs to understand — The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us get the answer without a to-and-fro tennis match between a couple of members. Minister, address your answer through the Chair and I will not interrupt you. Hon HELEN MORTON : It is for these reasons that as politicians but, more importantly, as people we have a responsibility to ensure that when we speak of suicide and individual loss, we recognise the grief and the raw emotion associated with each and every loss and we act and speak in a manner that is befitting the grief and anguish that these people are experiencing at the time. I ask all members of Parliament who either have information or want to know information about a family in similar circumstances to the family Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich mentioned to make contact with my office. We can provide members with as much information as we can possibly get. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : I made contact with you about Eddie Dayeh and he lost his house. Hon HELEN MORTON : Just a minute! My staff are highly professional, very competent and very capable of providing that type of information sensitively. It would be appropriate for members to get that type of information before they make grandiose, sensational statements about people and the tragedies they are experiencing. In the case of the Nundle family, I am advised that the Goldfields mental health service of the WA Country Health Service was in contact with Mrs Nundle’s daughter Cheryl on 12 May and again on 13 May 2011. Cheryl was offered an appointment but that was declined at the time. The Nundle family from Esperance has been offered and accepted support from WA Country Health Service’s Esperance Community Mental Health unit, which has acted, where possible, as a bridge to services and has made contact with one elder from the family to provide information on the support that is available. Another elder from the community has visited the mental health service clinic and is encouraging family members to access the service if care is needed. Escare is a community-based organisation in Esperance that has been providing daily support to the family, including home visits, for some months prior to Cheryl being referred to the WA Country Health Service’s Esperance Community Mental Health facility. Centrecare has taken the lead in providing grief counselling to the family and continues to maintain contact with the family. I am advised that an Aboriginal health worker has made contact with the family. Bega Garnbirringu Health Service is sending an Aboriginal health worker to Esperance to meet the Nundle family to advise the family on the type of support it may need. The local police and Esperance District Hospital are aware of the situation and are being vigilant over the family members or others known to the family who may present to them with a lowered mood, grief reactions and suicidal ideations. Through the ongoing implementation of the WA suicide prevention strategy, a community action plan is being developed in Esperance. As I have mentioned previously, the community action plans are uniquely created and owned by each community to reflect their own culturally specific needs. The aim of the Esperance CAP is to create a sustainable long-term suicide prevention plan that develops through a process of community engagement with individuals, families and communities. I reiterate that this is the question the member needed to ask before she — Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : I will be checking the dates, don’t you worry. This has happened since this matter was raised in this chamber by me. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon HELEN MORTON : The member is suggesting that the information provided to me by the agencies involved is incorrect. The member continues to astound me with her lack of sensitivity and tact in this area.
(4) Which agency or service provider in Esperance is responsible for providing Angela Nundle with the help that she requires, and can the minister provide the name of a contact person that she should meet? (5) Why is funding for mental health and suicide prevention not finding its way to the grassroots? Hon HELEN MORTON replied: I thank the honourable member for some notice of the question. (1)–(5) These are probably the questions that needed to be asked before the member made comments during members’ statements yesterday or whenever it was with relatively little information. Hon Sue Ellery : It never used to stop you. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : Yeah, nothing ever stopped you, but I didn’t do it intentionally. Hon HELEN MORTON : I am glad to hear that because I am going to make a few comments about that. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us hear the answer. Hon HELEN MORTON : We are publicly discussing very vulnerable families in highly emotional times. These people are quite distressed, as the member knows. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : They’re desperate for services, minister. Hon HELEN MORTON : The member will hear about that in a minute. She needs to understand — The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us get the answer without a to-and-fro tennis match between a couple of members. Minister, address your answer through the Chair and I will not interrupt you. Hon HELEN MORTON : It is for these reasons that as politicians but, more importantly, as people we have a responsibility to ensure that when we speak of suicide and individual loss, we recognise the grief and the raw emotion associated with each and every loss and we act and speak in a manner that is befitting the grief and anguish that these people are experiencing at the time. I ask all members of Parliament who either have information or want to know information about a family in similar circumstances to the family Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich mentioned to make contact with my office. We can provide members with as much information as we can possibly get. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : I made contact with you about Eddie Dayeh and he lost his house. Hon HELEN MORTON : Just a minute! My staff are highly professional, very competent and very capable of providing that type of information sensitively. It would be appropriate for members to get that type of information before they make grandiose, sensational statements about people and the tragedies they are experiencing. In the case of the Nundle family, I am advised that the Goldfields mental health service of the WA Country Health Service was in contact with Mrs Nundle’s daughter Cheryl on 12 May and again on 13 May 2011. Cheryl was offered an appointment but that was declined at the time. The Nundle family from Esperance has been offered and accepted support from WA Country Health Service’s Esperance Community Mental Health unit, which has acted, where possible, as a bridge to services and has made contact with one elder from the family to provide information on the support that is available. Another elder from the community has visited the mental health service clinic and is encouraging family members to access the service if care is needed. Escare is a community-based organisation in Esperance that has been providing daily support to the family, including home visits, for some months prior to Cheryl being referred to the WA Country Health Service’s Esperance Community Mental Health facility. Centrecare has taken the lead in providing grief counselling to the family and continues to maintain contact with the family. I am advised that an Aboriginal health worker has made contact with the family. Bega Garnbirringu Health Service is sending an Aboriginal health worker to Esperance to meet the Nundle family to advise the family on the type of support it may need. The local police and Esperance District Hospital are aware of the situation and are being vigilant over the family members or others known to the family who may present to them with a lowered mood, grief reactions and suicidal ideations. Through the ongoing implementation of the WA suicide prevention strategy, a community action plan is being developed in Esperance. As I have mentioned previously, the community action plans are uniquely created and owned by each community to reflect their own culturally specific needs. The aim of the Esperance CAP is to create a sustainable long-term suicide prevention plan that develops through a process of community engagement with individuals, families and communities. I reiterate that this is the question the member needed to ask before she — Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : I will be checking the dates, don’t you worry. This has happened since this matter was raised in this chamber by me. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon HELEN MORTON : The member is suggesting that the information provided to me by the agencies involved is incorrect. The member continues to astound me with her lack of sensitivity and tact in this area.
(5) Why is funding for mental health and suicide prevention not finding its way to the grassroots? Hon HELEN MORTON replied: I thank the honourable member for some notice of the question. (1)–(5) These are probably the questions that needed to be asked before the member made comments during members’ statements yesterday or whenever it was with relatively little information. Hon Sue Ellery : It never used to stop you. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : Yeah, nothing ever stopped you, but I didn’t do it intentionally. Hon HELEN MORTON : I am glad to hear that because I am going to make a few comments about that. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us hear the answer. Hon HELEN MORTON : We are publicly discussing very vulnerable families in highly emotional times. These people are quite distressed, as the member knows. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : They’re desperate for services, minister. Hon HELEN MORTON : The member will hear about that in a minute. She needs to understand — The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us get the answer without a to-and-fro tennis match between a couple of members. Minister, address your answer through the Chair and I will not interrupt you. Hon HELEN MORTON : It is for these reasons that as politicians but, more importantly, as people we have a responsibility to ensure that when we speak of suicide and individual loss, we recognise the grief and the raw emotion associated with each and every loss and we act and speak in a manner that is befitting the grief and anguish that these people are experiencing at the time. I ask all members of Parliament who either have information or want to know information about a family in similar circumstances to the family Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich mentioned to make contact with my office. We can provide members with as much information as we can possibly get. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : I made contact with you about Eddie Dayeh and he lost his house. Hon HELEN MORTON : Just a minute! My staff are highly professional, very competent and very capable of providing that type of information sensitively. It would be appropriate for members to get that type of information before they make grandiose, sensational statements about people and the tragedies they are experiencing. In the case of the Nundle family, I am advised that the Goldfields mental health service of the WA Country Health Service was in contact with Mrs Nundle’s daughter Cheryl on 12 May and again on 13 May 2011. Cheryl was offered an appointment but that was declined at the time. The Nundle family from Esperance has been offered and accepted support from WA Country Health Service’s Esperance Community Mental Health unit, which has acted, where possible, as a bridge to services and has made contact with one elder from the family to provide information on the support that is available. Another elder from the community has visited the mental health service clinic and is encouraging family members to access the service if care is needed. Escare is a community-based organisation in Esperance that has been providing daily support to the family, including home visits, for some months prior to Cheryl being referred to the WA Country Health Service’s Esperance Community Mental Health facility. Centrecare has taken the lead in providing grief counselling to the family and continues to maintain contact with the family. I am advised that an Aboriginal health worker has made contact with the family. Bega Garnbirringu Health Service is sending an Aboriginal health worker to Esperance to meet the Nundle family to advise the family on the type of support it may need. The local police and Esperance District Hospital are aware of the situation and are being vigilant over the family members or others known to the family who may present to them with a lowered mood, grief reactions and suicidal ideations. Through the ongoing implementation of the WA suicide prevention strategy, a community action plan is being developed in Esperance. As I have mentioned previously, the community action plans are uniquely created and owned by each community to reflect their own culturally specific needs. The aim of the Esperance CAP is to create a sustainable long-term suicide prevention plan that develops through a process of community engagement with individuals, families and communities. I reiterate that this is the question the member needed to ask before she — Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : I will be checking the dates, don’t you worry. This has happened since this matter was raised in this chamber by me. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon HELEN MORTON : The member is suggesting that the information provided to me by the agencies involved is incorrect. The member continues to astound me with her lack of sensitivity and tact in this area.
Hon HELEN MORTON replied: I thank the honourable member for some notice of the question. (1)–(5) These are probably the questions that needed to be asked before the member made comments during members’ statements yesterday or whenever it was with relatively little information. Hon Sue Ellery : It never used to stop you. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : Yeah, nothing ever stopped you, but I didn’t do it intentionally. Hon HELEN MORTON : I am glad to hear that because I am going to make a few comments about that. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us hear the answer. Hon HELEN MORTON : We are publicly discussing very vulnerable families in highly emotional times. These people are quite distressed, as the member knows. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : They’re desperate for services, minister. Hon HELEN MORTON : The member will hear about that in a minute. She needs to understand — The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us get the answer without a to-and-fro tennis match between a couple of members. Minister, address your answer through the Chair and I will not interrupt you. Hon HELEN MORTON : It is for these reasons that as politicians but, more importantly, as people we have a responsibility to ensure that when we speak of suicide and individual loss, we recognise the grief and the raw emotion associated with each and every loss and we act and speak in a manner that is befitting the grief and anguish that these people are experiencing at the time. I ask all members of Parliament who either have information or want to know information about a family in similar circumstances to the family Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich mentioned to make contact with my office. We can provide members with as much information as we can possibly get. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : I made contact with you about Eddie Dayeh and he lost his house. Hon HELEN MORTON : Just a minute! My staff are highly professional, very competent and very capable of providing that type of information sensitively. It would be appropriate for members to get that type of information before they make grandiose, sensational statements about people and the tragedies they are experiencing. In the case of the Nundle family, I am advised that the Goldfields mental health service of the WA Country Health Service was in contact with Mrs Nundle’s daughter Cheryl on 12 May and again on 13 May 2011. Cheryl was offered an appointment but that was declined at the time. The Nundle family from Esperance has been offered and accepted support from WA Country Health Service’s Esperance Community Mental Health unit, which has acted, where possible, as a bridge to services and has made contact with one elder from the family to provide information on the support that is available. Another elder from the community has visited the mental health service clinic and is encouraging family members to access the service if care is needed. Escare is a community-based organisation in Esperance that has been providing daily support to the family, including home visits, for some months prior to Cheryl being referred to the WA Country Health Service’s Esperance Community Mental Health facility. Centrecare has taken the lead in providing grief counselling to the family and continues to maintain contact with the family. I am advised that an Aboriginal health worker has made contact with the family. Bega Garnbirringu Health Service is sending an Aboriginal health worker to Esperance to meet the Nundle family to advise the family on the type of support it may need. The local police and Esperance District Hospital are aware of the situation and are being vigilant over the family members or others known to the family who may present to them with a lowered mood, grief reactions and suicidal ideations. Through the ongoing implementation of the WA suicide prevention strategy, a community action plan is being developed in Esperance. As I have mentioned previously, the community action plans are uniquely created and owned by each community to reflect their own culturally specific needs. The aim of the Esperance CAP is to create a sustainable long-term suicide prevention plan that develops through a process of community engagement with individuals, families and communities. I reiterate that this is the question the member needed to ask before she — Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : I will be checking the dates, don’t you worry. This has happened since this matter was raised in this chamber by me. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon HELEN MORTON : The member is suggesting that the information provided to me by the agencies involved is incorrect. The member continues to astound me with her lack of sensitivity and tact in this area.
I thank the honourable member for some notice of the question. (1)–(5) These are probably the questions that needed to be asked before the member made comments during members’ statements yesterday or whenever it was with relatively little information. Hon Sue Ellery : It never used to stop you. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : Yeah, nothing ever stopped you, but I didn’t do it intentionally. Hon HELEN MORTON : I am glad to hear that because I am going to make a few comments about that. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us hear the answer. Hon HELEN MORTON : We are publicly discussing very vulnerable families in highly emotional times. These people are quite distressed, as the member knows. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : They’re desperate for services, minister. Hon HELEN MORTON : The member will hear about that in a minute. She needs to understand — The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us get the answer without a to-and-fro tennis match between a couple of members. Minister, address your answer through the Chair and I will not interrupt you. Hon HELEN MORTON : It is for these reasons that as politicians but, more importantly, as people we have a responsibility to ensure that when we speak of suicide and individual loss, we recognise the grief and the raw emotion associated with each and every loss and we act and speak in a manner that is befitting the grief and anguish that these people are experiencing at the time. I ask all members of Parliament who either have information or want to know information about a family in similar circumstances to the family Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich mentioned to make contact with my office. We can provide members with as much information as we can possibly get. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : I made contact with you about Eddie Dayeh and he lost his house. Hon HELEN MORTON : Just a minute! My staff are highly professional, very competent and very capable of providing that type of information sensitively. It would be appropriate for members to get that type of information before they make grandiose, sensational statements about people and the tragedies they are experiencing. In the case of the Nundle family, I am advised that the Goldfields mental health service of the WA Country Health Service was in contact with Mrs Nundle’s daughter Cheryl on 12 May and again on 13 May 2011. Cheryl was offered an appointment but that was declined at the time. The Nundle family from Esperance has been offered and accepted support from WA Country Health Service’s Esperance Community Mental Health unit, which has acted, where possible, as a bridge to services and has made contact with one elder from the family to provide information on the support that is available. Another elder from the community has visited the mental health service clinic and is encouraging family members to access the service if care is needed. Escare is a community-based organisation in Esperance that has been providing daily support to the family, including home visits, for some months prior to Cheryl being referred to the WA Country Health Service’s Esperance Community Mental Health facility. Centrecare has taken the lead in providing grief counselling to the family and continues to maintain contact with the family. I am advised that an Aboriginal health worker has made contact with the family. Bega Garnbirringu Health Service is sending an Aboriginal health worker to Esperance to meet the Nundle family to advise the family on the type of support it may need. The local police and Esperance District Hospital are aware of the situation and are being vigilant over the family members or others known to the family who may present to them with a lowered mood, grief reactions and suicidal ideations. Through the ongoing implementation of the WA suicide prevention strategy, a community action plan is being developed in Esperance. As I have mentioned previously, the community action plans are uniquely created and owned by each community to reflect their own culturally specific needs. The aim of the Esperance CAP is to create a sustainable long-term suicide prevention plan that develops through a process of community engagement with individuals, families and communities. I reiterate that this is the question the member needed to ask before she — Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : I will be checking the dates, don’t you worry. This has happened since this matter was raised in this chamber by me. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon HELEN MORTON : The member is suggesting that the information provided to me by the agencies involved is incorrect. The member continues to astound me with her lack of sensitivity and tact in this area.
(1)–(5) These are probably the questions that needed to be asked before the member made comments during members’ statements yesterday or whenever it was with relatively little information. Hon Sue Ellery : It never used to stop you. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : Yeah, nothing ever stopped you, but I didn’t do it intentionally. Hon HELEN MORTON : I am glad to hear that because I am going to make a few comments about that. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us hear the answer. Hon HELEN MORTON : We are publicly discussing very vulnerable families in highly emotional times. These people are quite distressed, as the member knows. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : They’re desperate for services, minister. Hon HELEN MORTON : The member will hear about that in a minute. She needs to understand — The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us get the answer without a to-and-fro tennis match between a couple of members. Minister, address your answer through the Chair and I will not interrupt you. Hon HELEN MORTON : It is for these reasons that as politicians but, more importantly, as people we have a responsibility to ensure that when we speak of suicide and individual loss, we recognise the grief and the raw emotion associated with each and every loss and we act and speak in a manner that is befitting the grief and anguish that these people are experiencing at the time. I ask all members of Parliament who either have information or want to know information about a family in similar circumstances to the family Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich mentioned to make contact with my office. We can provide members with as much information as we can possibly get. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : I made contact with you about Eddie Dayeh and he lost his house. Hon HELEN MORTON : Just a minute! My staff are highly professional, very competent and very capable of providing that type of information sensitively. It would be appropriate for members to get that type of information before they make grandiose, sensational statements about people and the tragedies they are experiencing. In the case of the Nundle family, I am advised that the Goldfields mental health service of the WA Country Health Service was in contact with Mrs Nundle’s daughter Cheryl on 12 May and again on 13 May 2011. Cheryl was offered an appointment but that was declined at the time. The Nundle family from Esperance has been offered and accepted support from WA Country Health Service’s Esperance Community Mental Health unit, which has acted, where possible, as a bridge to services and has made contact with one elder from the family to provide information on the support that is available. Another elder from the community has visited the mental health service clinic and is encouraging family members to access the service if care is needed. Escare is a community-based organisation in Esperance that has been providing daily support to the family, including home visits, for some months prior to Cheryl being referred to the WA Country Health Service’s Esperance Community Mental Health facility. Centrecare has taken the lead in providing grief counselling to the family and continues to maintain contact with the family. I am advised that an Aboriginal health worker has made contact with the family. Bega Garnbirringu Health Service is sending an Aboriginal health worker to Esperance to meet the Nundle family to advise the family on the type of support it may need. The local police and Esperance District Hospital are aware of the situation and are being vigilant over the family members or others known to the family who may present to them with a lowered mood, grief reactions and suicidal ideations. Through the ongoing implementation of the WA suicide prevention strategy, a community action plan is being developed in Esperance. As I have mentioned previously, the community action plans are uniquely created and owned by each community to reflect their own culturally specific needs. The aim of the Esperance CAP is to create a sustainable long-term suicide prevention plan that develops through a process of community engagement with individuals, families and communities. I reiterate that this is the question the member needed to ask before she — Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : I will be checking the dates, don’t you worry. This has happened since this matter was raised in this chamber by me. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon HELEN MORTON : The member is suggesting that the information provided to me by the agencies involved is incorrect. The member continues to astound me with her lack of sensitivity and tact in this area.
Hon Sue Ellery : It never used to stop you. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : Yeah, nothing ever stopped you, but I didn’t do it intentionally. Hon HELEN MORTON : I am glad to hear that because I am going to make a few comments about that. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us hear the answer. Hon HELEN MORTON : We are publicly discussing very vulnerable families in highly emotional times. These people are quite distressed, as the member knows. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : They’re desperate for services, minister. Hon HELEN MORTON : The member will hear about that in a minute. She needs to understand — The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us get the answer without a to-and-fro tennis match between a couple of members. Minister, address your answer through the Chair and I will not interrupt you. Hon HELEN MORTON : It is for these reasons that as politicians but, more importantly, as people we have a responsibility to ensure that when we speak of suicide and individual loss, we recognise the grief and the raw emotion associated with each and every loss and we act and speak in a manner that is befitting the grief and anguish that these people are experiencing at the time. I ask all members of Parliament who either have information or want to know information about a family in similar circumstances to the family Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich mentioned to make contact with my office. We can provide members with as much information as we can possibly get. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : I made contact with you about Eddie Dayeh and he lost his house. Hon HELEN MORTON : Just a minute! My staff are highly professional, very competent and very capable of providing that type of information sensitively. It would be appropriate for members to get that type of information before they make grandiose, sensational statements about people and the tragedies they are experiencing. In the case of the Nundle family, I am advised that the Goldfields mental health service of the WA Country Health Service was in contact with Mrs Nundle’s daughter Cheryl on 12 May and again on 13 May 2011. Cheryl was offered an appointment but that was declined at the time. The Nundle family from Esperance has been offered and accepted support from WA Country Health Service’s Esperance Community Mental Health unit, which has acted, where possible, as a bridge to services and has made contact with one elder from the family to provide information on the support that is available. Another elder from the community has visited the mental health service clinic and is encouraging family members to access the service if care is needed. Escare is a community-based organisation in Esperance that has been providing daily support to the family, including home visits, for some months prior to Cheryl being referred to the WA Country Health Service’s Esperance Community Mental Health facility. Centrecare has taken the lead in providing grief counselling to the family and continues to maintain contact with the family. I am advised that an Aboriginal health worker has made contact with the family. Bega Garnbirringu Health Service is sending an Aboriginal health worker to Esperance to meet the Nundle family to advise the family on the type of support it may need. The local police and Esperance District Hospital are aware of the situation and are being vigilant over the family members or others known to the family who may present to them with a lowered mood, grief reactions and suicidal ideations. Through the ongoing implementation of the WA suicide prevention strategy, a community action plan is being developed in Esperance. As I have mentioned previously, the community action plans are uniquely created and owned by each community to reflect their own culturally specific needs. The aim of the Esperance CAP is to create a sustainable long-term suicide prevention plan that develops through a process of community engagement with individuals, families and communities. I reiterate that this is the question the member needed to ask before she — Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : I will be checking the dates, don’t you worry. This has happened since this matter was raised in this chamber by me. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon HELEN MORTON : The member is suggesting that the information provided to me by the agencies involved is incorrect. The member continues to astound me with her lack of sensitivity and tact in this area.
Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : Yeah, nothing ever stopped you, but I didn’t do it intentionally. Hon HELEN MORTON : I am glad to hear that because I am going to make a few comments about that. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us hear the answer. Hon HELEN MORTON : We are publicly discussing very vulnerable families in highly emotional times. These people are quite distressed, as the member knows. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : They’re desperate for services, minister. Hon HELEN MORTON : The member will hear about that in a minute. She needs to understand — The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us get the answer without a to-and-fro tennis match between a couple of members. Minister, address your answer through the Chair and I will not interrupt you. Hon HELEN MORTON : It is for these reasons that as politicians but, more importantly, as people we have a responsibility to ensure that when we speak of suicide and individual loss, we recognise the grief and the raw emotion associated with each and every loss and we act and speak in a manner that is befitting the grief and anguish that these people are experiencing at the time. I ask all members of Parliament who either have information or want to know information about a family in similar circumstances to the family Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich mentioned to make contact with my office. We can provide members with as much information as we can possibly get. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : I made contact with you about Eddie Dayeh and he lost his house. Hon HELEN MORTON : Just a minute! My staff are highly professional, very competent and very capable of providing that type of information sensitively. It would be appropriate for members to get that type of information before they make grandiose, sensational statements about people and the tragedies they are experiencing. In the case of the Nundle family, I am advised that the Goldfields mental health service of the WA Country Health Service was in contact with Mrs Nundle’s daughter Cheryl on 12 May and again on 13 May 2011. Cheryl was offered an appointment but that was declined at the time. The Nundle family from Esperance has been offered and accepted support from WA Country Health Service’s Esperance Community Mental Health unit, which has acted, where possible, as a bridge to services and has made contact with one elder from the family to provide information on the support that is available. Another elder from the community has visited the mental health service clinic and is encouraging family members to access the service if care is needed. Escare is a community-based organisation in Esperance that has been providing daily support to the family, including home visits, for some months prior to Cheryl being referred to the WA Country Health Service’s Esperance Community Mental Health facility. Centrecare has taken the lead in providing grief counselling to the family and continues to maintain contact with the family. I am advised that an Aboriginal health worker has made contact with the family. Bega Garnbirringu Health Service is sending an Aboriginal health worker to Esperance to meet the Nundle family to advise the family on the type of support it may need. The local police and Esperance District Hospital are aware of the situation and are being vigilant over the family members or others known to the family who may present to them with a lowered mood, grief reactions and suicidal ideations. Through the ongoing implementation of the WA suicide prevention strategy, a community action plan is being developed in Esperance. As I have mentioned previously, the community action plans are uniquely created and owned by each community to reflect their own culturally specific needs. The aim of the Esperance CAP is to create a sustainable long-term suicide prevention plan that develops through a process of community engagement with individuals, families and communities. I reiterate that this is the question the member needed to ask before she — Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : I will be checking the dates, don’t you worry. This has happened since this matter was raised in this chamber by me. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon HELEN MORTON : The member is suggesting that the information provided to me by the agencies involved is incorrect. The member continues to astound me with her lack of sensitivity and tact in this area.
Hon HELEN MORTON : I am glad to hear that because I am going to make a few comments about that. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us hear the answer. Hon HELEN MORTON : We are publicly discussing very vulnerable families in highly emotional times. These people are quite distressed, as the member knows. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : They’re desperate for services, minister. Hon HELEN MORTON : The member will hear about that in a minute. She needs to understand — The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us get the answer without a to-and-fro tennis match between a couple of members. Minister, address your answer through the Chair and I will not interrupt you. Hon HELEN MORTON : It is for these reasons that as politicians but, more importantly, as people we have a responsibility to ensure that when we speak of suicide and individual loss, we recognise the grief and the raw emotion associated with each and every loss and we act and speak in a manner that is befitting the grief and anguish that these people are experiencing at the time. I ask all members of Parliament who either have information or want to know information about a family in similar circumstances to the family Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich mentioned to make contact with my office. We can provide members with as much information as we can possibly get. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : I made contact with you about Eddie Dayeh and he lost his house. Hon HELEN MORTON : Just a minute! My staff are highly professional, very competent and very capable of providing that type of information sensitively. It would be appropriate for members to get that type of information before they make grandiose, sensational statements about people and the tragedies they are experiencing. In the case of the Nundle family, I am advised that the Goldfields mental health service of the WA Country Health Service was in contact with Mrs Nundle’s daughter Cheryl on 12 May and again on 13 May 2011. Cheryl was offered an appointment but that was declined at the time. The Nundle family from Esperance has been offered and accepted support from WA Country Health Service’s Esperance Community Mental Health unit, which has acted, where possible, as a bridge to services and has made contact with one elder from the family to provide information on the support that is available. Another elder from the community has visited the mental health service clinic and is encouraging family members to access the service if care is needed. Escare is a community-based organisation in Esperance that has been providing daily support to the family, including home visits, for some months prior to Cheryl being referred to the WA Country Health Service’s Esperance Community Mental Health facility. Centrecare has taken the lead in providing grief counselling to the family and continues to maintain contact with the family. I am advised that an Aboriginal health worker has made contact with the family. Bega Garnbirringu Health Service is sending an Aboriginal health worker to Esperance to meet the Nundle family to advise the family on the type of support it may need. The local police and Esperance District Hospital are aware of the situation and are being vigilant over the family members or others known to the family who may present to them with a lowered mood, grief reactions and suicidal ideations. Through the ongoing implementation of the WA suicide prevention strategy, a community action plan is being developed in Esperance. As I have mentioned previously, the community action plans are uniquely created and owned by each community to reflect their own culturally specific needs. The aim of the Esperance CAP is to create a sustainable long-term suicide prevention plan that develops through a process of community engagement with individuals, families and communities. I reiterate that this is the question the member needed to ask before she — Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : I will be checking the dates, don’t you worry. This has happened since this matter was raised in this chamber by me. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon HELEN MORTON : The member is suggesting that the information provided to me by the agencies involved is incorrect. The member continues to astound me with her lack of sensitivity and tact in this area.
Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us hear the answer. Hon HELEN MORTON : We are publicly discussing very vulnerable families in highly emotional times. These people are quite distressed, as the member knows. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : They’re desperate for services, minister. Hon HELEN MORTON : The member will hear about that in a minute. She needs to understand — The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us get the answer without a to-and-fro tennis match between a couple of members. Minister, address your answer through the Chair and I will not interrupt you. Hon HELEN MORTON : It is for these reasons that as politicians but, more importantly, as people we have a responsibility to ensure that when we speak of suicide and individual loss, we recognise the grief and the raw emotion associated with each and every loss and we act and speak in a manner that is befitting the grief and anguish that these people are experiencing at the time. I ask all members of Parliament who either have information or want to know information about a family in similar circumstances to the family Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich mentioned to make contact with my office. We can provide members with as much information as we can possibly get. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : I made contact with you about Eddie Dayeh and he lost his house. Hon HELEN MORTON : Just a minute! My staff are highly professional, very competent and very capable of providing that type of information sensitively. It would be appropriate for members to get that type of information before they make grandiose, sensational statements about people and the tragedies they are experiencing. In the case of the Nundle family, I am advised that the Goldfields mental health service of the WA Country Health Service was in contact with Mrs Nundle’s daughter Cheryl on 12 May and again on 13 May 2011. Cheryl was offered an appointment but that was declined at the time. The Nundle family from Esperance has been offered and accepted support from WA Country Health Service’s Esperance Community Mental Health unit, which has acted, where possible, as a bridge to services and has made contact with one elder from the family to provide information on the support that is available. Another elder from the community has visited the mental health service clinic and is encouraging family members to access the service if care is needed. Escare is a community-based organisation in Esperance that has been providing daily support to the family, including home visits, for some months prior to Cheryl being referred to the WA Country Health Service’s Esperance Community Mental Health facility. Centrecare has taken the lead in providing grief counselling to the family and continues to maintain contact with the family. I am advised that an Aboriginal health worker has made contact with the family. Bega Garnbirringu Health Service is sending an Aboriginal health worker to Esperance to meet the Nundle family to advise the family on the type of support it may need. The local police and Esperance District Hospital are aware of the situation and are being vigilant over the family members or others known to the family who may present to them with a lowered mood, grief reactions and suicidal ideations. Through the ongoing implementation of the WA suicide prevention strategy, a community action plan is being developed in Esperance. As I have mentioned previously, the community action plans are uniquely created and owned by each community to reflect their own culturally specific needs. The aim of the Esperance CAP is to create a sustainable long-term suicide prevention plan that develops through a process of community engagement with individuals, families and communities. I reiterate that this is the question the member needed to ask before she — Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : I will be checking the dates, don’t you worry. This has happened since this matter was raised in this chamber by me. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon HELEN MORTON : The member is suggesting that the information provided to me by the agencies involved is incorrect. The member continues to astound me with her lack of sensitivity and tact in this area.
The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us hear the answer. Hon HELEN MORTON : We are publicly discussing very vulnerable families in highly emotional times. These people are quite distressed, as the member knows. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : They’re desperate for services, minister. Hon HELEN MORTON : The member will hear about that in a minute. She needs to understand — The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us get the answer without a to-and-fro tennis match between a couple of members. Minister, address your answer through the Chair and I will not interrupt you. Hon HELEN MORTON : It is for these reasons that as politicians but, more importantly, as people we have a responsibility to ensure that when we speak of suicide and individual loss, we recognise the grief and the raw emotion associated with each and every loss and we act and speak in a manner that is befitting the grief and anguish that these people are experiencing at the time. I ask all members of Parliament who either have information or want to know information about a family in similar circumstances to the family Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich mentioned to make contact with my office. We can provide members with as much information as we can possibly get. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : I made contact with you about Eddie Dayeh and he lost his house. Hon HELEN MORTON : Just a minute! My staff are highly professional, very competent and very capable of providing that type of information sensitively. It would be appropriate for members to get that type of information before they make grandiose, sensational statements about people and the tragedies they are experiencing. In the case of the Nundle family, I am advised that the Goldfields mental health service of the WA Country Health Service was in contact with Mrs Nundle’s daughter Cheryl on 12 May and again on 13 May 2011. Cheryl was offered an appointment but that was declined at the time. The Nundle family from Esperance has been offered and accepted support from WA Country Health Service’s Esperance Community Mental Health unit, which has acted, where possible, as a bridge to services and has made contact with one elder from the family to provide information on the support that is available. Another elder from the community has visited the mental health service clinic and is encouraging family members to access the service if care is needed. Escare is a community-based organisation in Esperance that has been providing daily support to the family, including home visits, for some months prior to Cheryl being referred to the WA Country Health Service’s Esperance Community Mental Health facility. Centrecare has taken the lead in providing grief counselling to the family and continues to maintain contact with the family. I am advised that an Aboriginal health worker has made contact with the family. Bega Garnbirringu Health Service is sending an Aboriginal health worker to Esperance to meet the Nundle family to advise the family on the type of support it may need. The local police and Esperance District Hospital are aware of the situation and are being vigilant over the family members or others known to the family who may present to them with a lowered mood, grief reactions and suicidal ideations. Through the ongoing implementation of the WA suicide prevention strategy, a community action plan is being developed in Esperance. As I have mentioned previously, the community action plans are uniquely created and owned by each community to reflect their own culturally specific needs. The aim of the Esperance CAP is to create a sustainable long-term suicide prevention plan that develops through a process of community engagement with individuals, families and communities. I reiterate that this is the question the member needed to ask before she — Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : I will be checking the dates, don’t you worry. This has happened since this matter was raised in this chamber by me. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon HELEN MORTON : The member is suggesting that the information provided to me by the agencies involved is incorrect. The member continues to astound me with her lack of sensitivity and tact in this area.
Hon HELEN MORTON : We are publicly discussing very vulnerable families in highly emotional times. These people are quite distressed, as the member knows. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : They’re desperate for services, minister. Hon HELEN MORTON : The member will hear about that in a minute. She needs to understand — The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us get the answer without a to-and-fro tennis match between a couple of members. Minister, address your answer through the Chair and I will not interrupt you. Hon HELEN MORTON : It is for these reasons that as politicians but, more importantly, as people we have a responsibility to ensure that when we speak of suicide and individual loss, we recognise the grief and the raw emotion associated with each and every loss and we act and speak in a manner that is befitting the grief and anguish that these people are experiencing at the time. I ask all members of Parliament who either have information or want to know information about a family in similar circumstances to the family Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich mentioned to make contact with my office. We can provide members with as much information as we can possibly get. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : I made contact with you about Eddie Dayeh and he lost his house. Hon HELEN MORTON : Just a minute! My staff are highly professional, very competent and very capable of providing that type of information sensitively. It would be appropriate for members to get that type of information before they make grandiose, sensational statements about people and the tragedies they are experiencing. In the case of the Nundle family, I am advised that the Goldfields mental health service of the WA Country Health Service was in contact with Mrs Nundle’s daughter Cheryl on 12 May and again on 13 May 2011. Cheryl was offered an appointment but that was declined at the time. The Nundle family from Esperance has been offered and accepted support from WA Country Health Service’s Esperance Community Mental Health unit, which has acted, where possible, as a bridge to services and has made contact with one elder from the family to provide information on the support that is available. Another elder from the community has visited the mental health service clinic and is encouraging family members to access the service if care is needed. Escare is a community-based organisation in Esperance that has been providing daily support to the family, including home visits, for some months prior to Cheryl being referred to the WA Country Health Service’s Esperance Community Mental Health facility. Centrecare has taken the lead in providing grief counselling to the family and continues to maintain contact with the family. I am advised that an Aboriginal health worker has made contact with the family. Bega Garnbirringu Health Service is sending an Aboriginal health worker to Esperance to meet the Nundle family to advise the family on the type of support it may need. The local police and Esperance District Hospital are aware of the situation and are being vigilant over the family members or others known to the family who may present to them with a lowered mood, grief reactions and suicidal ideations. Through the ongoing implementation of the WA suicide prevention strategy, a community action plan is being developed in Esperance. As I have mentioned previously, the community action plans are uniquely created and owned by each community to reflect their own culturally specific needs. The aim of the Esperance CAP is to create a sustainable long-term suicide prevention plan that develops through a process of community engagement with individuals, families and communities. I reiterate that this is the question the member needed to ask before she — Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : I will be checking the dates, don’t you worry. This has happened since this matter was raised in this chamber by me. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon HELEN MORTON : The member is suggesting that the information provided to me by the agencies involved is incorrect. The member continues to astound me with her lack of sensitivity and tact in this area.
Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : They’re desperate for services, minister. Hon HELEN MORTON : The member will hear about that in a minute. She needs to understand — The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us get the answer without a to-and-fro tennis match between a couple of members. Minister, address your answer through the Chair and I will not interrupt you. Hon HELEN MORTON : It is for these reasons that as politicians but, more importantly, as people we have a responsibility to ensure that when we speak of suicide and individual loss, we recognise the grief and the raw emotion associated with each and every loss and we act and speak in a manner that is befitting the grief and anguish that these people are experiencing at the time. I ask all members of Parliament who either have information or want to know information about a family in similar circumstances to the family Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich mentioned to make contact with my office. We can provide members with as much information as we can possibly get. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : I made contact with you about Eddie Dayeh and he lost his house. Hon HELEN MORTON : Just a minute! My staff are highly professional, very competent and very capable of providing that type of information sensitively. It would be appropriate for members to get that type of information before they make grandiose, sensational statements about people and the tragedies they are experiencing. In the case of the Nundle family, I am advised that the Goldfields mental health service of the WA Country Health Service was in contact with Mrs Nundle’s daughter Cheryl on 12 May and again on 13 May 2011. Cheryl was offered an appointment but that was declined at the time. The Nundle family from Esperance has been offered and accepted support from WA Country Health Service’s Esperance Community Mental Health unit, which has acted, where possible, as a bridge to services and has made contact with one elder from the family to provide information on the support that is available. Another elder from the community has visited the mental health service clinic and is encouraging family members to access the service if care is needed. Escare is a community-based organisation in Esperance that has been providing daily support to the family, including home visits, for some months prior to Cheryl being referred to the WA Country Health Service’s Esperance Community Mental Health facility. Centrecare has taken the lead in providing grief counselling to the family and continues to maintain contact with the family. I am advised that an Aboriginal health worker has made contact with the family. Bega Garnbirringu Health Service is sending an Aboriginal health worker to Esperance to meet the Nundle family to advise the family on the type of support it may need. The local police and Esperance District Hospital are aware of the situation and are being vigilant over the family members or others known to the family who may present to them with a lowered mood, grief reactions and suicidal ideations. Through the ongoing implementation of the WA suicide prevention strategy, a community action plan is being developed in Esperance. As I have mentioned previously, the community action plans are uniquely created and owned by each community to reflect their own culturally specific needs. The aim of the Esperance CAP is to create a sustainable long-term suicide prevention plan that develops through a process of community engagement with individuals, families and communities. I reiterate that this is the question the member needed to ask before she — Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : I will be checking the dates, don’t you worry. This has happened since this matter was raised in this chamber by me. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon HELEN MORTON : The member is suggesting that the information provided to me by the agencies involved is incorrect. The member continues to astound me with her lack of sensitivity and tact in this area.
Hon HELEN MORTON : The member will hear about that in a minute. She needs to understand — The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us get the answer without a to-and-fro tennis match between a couple of members. Minister, address your answer through the Chair and I will not interrupt you. Hon HELEN MORTON : It is for these reasons that as politicians but, more importantly, as people we have a responsibility to ensure that when we speak of suicide and individual loss, we recognise the grief and the raw emotion associated with each and every loss and we act and speak in a manner that is befitting the grief and anguish that these people are experiencing at the time. I ask all members of Parliament who either have information or want to know information about a family in similar circumstances to the family Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich mentioned to make contact with my office. We can provide members with as much information as we can possibly get. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : I made contact with you about Eddie Dayeh and he lost his house. Hon HELEN MORTON : Just a minute! My staff are highly professional, very competent and very capable of providing that type of information sensitively. It would be appropriate for members to get that type of information before they make grandiose, sensational statements about people and the tragedies they are experiencing. In the case of the Nundle family, I am advised that the Goldfields mental health service of the WA Country Health Service was in contact with Mrs Nundle’s daughter Cheryl on 12 May and again on 13 May 2011. Cheryl was offered an appointment but that was declined at the time. The Nundle family from Esperance has been offered and accepted support from WA Country Health Service’s Esperance Community Mental Health unit, which has acted, where possible, as a bridge to services and has made contact with one elder from the family to provide information on the support that is available. Another elder from the community has visited the mental health service clinic and is encouraging family members to access the service if care is needed. Escare is a community-based organisation in Esperance that has been providing daily support to the family, including home visits, for some months prior to Cheryl being referred to the WA Country Health Service’s Esperance Community Mental Health facility. Centrecare has taken the lead in providing grief counselling to the family and continues to maintain contact with the family. I am advised that an Aboriginal health worker has made contact with the family. Bega Garnbirringu Health Service is sending an Aboriginal health worker to Esperance to meet the Nundle family to advise the family on the type of support it may need. The local police and Esperance District Hospital are aware of the situation and are being vigilant over the family members or others known to the family who may present to them with a lowered mood, grief reactions and suicidal ideations. Through the ongoing implementation of the WA suicide prevention strategy, a community action plan is being developed in Esperance. As I have mentioned previously, the community action plans are uniquely created and owned by each community to reflect their own culturally specific needs. The aim of the Esperance CAP is to create a sustainable long-term suicide prevention plan that develops through a process of community engagement with individuals, families and communities. I reiterate that this is the question the member needed to ask before she — Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : I will be checking the dates, don’t you worry. This has happened since this matter was raised in this chamber by me. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon HELEN MORTON : The member is suggesting that the information provided to me by the agencies involved is incorrect. The member continues to astound me with her lack of sensitivity and tact in this area.
The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us get the answer without a to-and-fro tennis match between a couple of members. Minister, address your answer through the Chair and I will not interrupt you. Hon HELEN MORTON : It is for these reasons that as politicians but, more importantly, as people we have a responsibility to ensure that when we speak of suicide and individual loss, we recognise the grief and the raw emotion associated with each and every loss and we act and speak in a manner that is befitting the grief and anguish that these people are experiencing at the time. I ask all members of Parliament who either have information or want to know information about a family in similar circumstances to the family Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich mentioned to make contact with my office. We can provide members with as much information as we can possibly get. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : I made contact with you about Eddie Dayeh and he lost his house. Hon HELEN MORTON : Just a minute! My staff are highly professional, very competent and very capable of providing that type of information sensitively. It would be appropriate for members to get that type of information before they make grandiose, sensational statements about people and the tragedies they are experiencing. In the case of the Nundle family, I am advised that the Goldfields mental health service of the WA Country Health Service was in contact with Mrs Nundle’s daughter Cheryl on 12 May and again on 13 May 2011. Cheryl was offered an appointment but that was declined at the time. The Nundle family from Esperance has been offered and accepted support from WA Country Health Service’s Esperance Community Mental Health unit, which has acted, where possible, as a bridge to services and has made contact with one elder from the family to provide information on the support that is available. Another elder from the community has visited the mental health service clinic and is encouraging family members to access the service if care is needed. Escare is a community-based organisation in Esperance that has been providing daily support to the family, including home visits, for some months prior to Cheryl being referred to the WA Country Health Service’s Esperance Community Mental Health facility. Centrecare has taken the lead in providing grief counselling to the family and continues to maintain contact with the family. I am advised that an Aboriginal health worker has made contact with the family. Bega Garnbirringu Health Service is sending an Aboriginal health worker to Esperance to meet the Nundle family to advise the family on the type of support it may need. The local police and Esperance District Hospital are aware of the situation and are being vigilant over the family members or others known to the family who may present to them with a lowered mood, grief reactions and suicidal ideations. Through the ongoing implementation of the WA suicide prevention strategy, a community action plan is being developed in Esperance. As I have mentioned previously, the community action plans are uniquely created and owned by each community to reflect their own culturally specific needs. The aim of the Esperance CAP is to create a sustainable long-term suicide prevention plan that develops through a process of community engagement with individuals, families and communities. I reiterate that this is the question the member needed to ask before she — Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : I will be checking the dates, don’t you worry. This has happened since this matter was raised in this chamber by me. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon HELEN MORTON : The member is suggesting that the information provided to me by the agencies involved is incorrect. The member continues to astound me with her lack of sensitivity and tact in this area.
Hon HELEN MORTON : It is for these reasons that as politicians but, more importantly, as people we have a responsibility to ensure that when we speak of suicide and individual loss, we recognise the grief and the raw emotion associated with each and every loss and we act and speak in a manner that is befitting the grief and anguish that these people are experiencing at the time. I ask all members of Parliament who either have information or want to know information about a family in similar circumstances to the family Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich mentioned to make contact with my office. We can provide members with as much information as we can possibly get. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : I made contact with you about Eddie Dayeh and he lost his house. Hon HELEN MORTON : Just a minute! My staff are highly professional, very competent and very capable of providing that type of information sensitively. It would be appropriate for members to get that type of information before they make grandiose, sensational statements about people and the tragedies they are experiencing. In the case of the Nundle family, I am advised that the Goldfields mental health service of the WA Country Health Service was in contact with Mrs Nundle’s daughter Cheryl on 12 May and again on 13 May 2011. Cheryl was offered an appointment but that was declined at the time. The Nundle family from Esperance has been offered and accepted support from WA Country Health Service’s Esperance Community Mental Health unit, which has acted, where possible, as a bridge to services and has made contact with one elder from the family to provide information on the support that is available. Another elder from the community has visited the mental health service clinic and is encouraging family members to access the service if care is needed. Escare is a community-based organisation in Esperance that has been providing daily support to the family, including home visits, for some months prior to Cheryl being referred to the WA Country Health Service’s Esperance Community Mental Health facility. Centrecare has taken the lead in providing grief counselling to the family and continues to maintain contact with the family. I am advised that an Aboriginal health worker has made contact with the family. Bega Garnbirringu Health Service is sending an Aboriginal health worker to Esperance to meet the Nundle family to advise the family on the type of support it may need. The local police and Esperance District Hospital are aware of the situation and are being vigilant over the family members or others known to the family who may present to them with a lowered mood, grief reactions and suicidal ideations. Through the ongoing implementation of the WA suicide prevention strategy, a community action plan is being developed in Esperance. As I have mentioned previously, the community action plans are uniquely created and owned by each community to reflect their own culturally specific needs. The aim of the Esperance CAP is to create a sustainable long-term suicide prevention plan that develops through a process of community engagement with individuals, families and communities. I reiterate that this is the question the member needed to ask before she — Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : I will be checking the dates, don’t you worry. This has happened since this matter was raised in this chamber by me. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon HELEN MORTON : The member is suggesting that the information provided to me by the agencies involved is incorrect. The member continues to astound me with her lack of sensitivity and tact in this area.
Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : I made contact with you about Eddie Dayeh and he lost his house. Hon HELEN MORTON : Just a minute! My staff are highly professional, very competent and very capable of providing that type of information sensitively. It would be appropriate for members to get that type of information before they make grandiose, sensational statements about people and the tragedies they are experiencing. In the case of the Nundle family, I am advised that the Goldfields mental health service of the WA Country Health Service was in contact with Mrs Nundle’s daughter Cheryl on 12 May and again on 13 May 2011. Cheryl was offered an appointment but that was declined at the time. The Nundle family from Esperance has been offered and accepted support from WA Country Health Service’s Esperance Community Mental Health unit, which has acted, where possible, as a bridge to services and has made contact with one elder from the family to provide information on the support that is available. Another elder from the community has visited the mental health service clinic and is encouraging family members to access the service if care is needed. Escare is a community-based organisation in Esperance that has been providing daily support to the family, including home visits, for some months prior to Cheryl being referred to the WA Country Health Service’s Esperance Community Mental Health facility. Centrecare has taken the lead in providing grief counselling to the family and continues to maintain contact with the family. I am advised that an Aboriginal health worker has made contact with the family. Bega Garnbirringu Health Service is sending an Aboriginal health worker to Esperance to meet the Nundle family to advise the family on the type of support it may need. The local police and Esperance District Hospital are aware of the situation and are being vigilant over the family members or others known to the family who may present to them with a lowered mood, grief reactions and suicidal ideations. Through the ongoing implementation of the WA suicide prevention strategy, a community action plan is being developed in Esperance. As I have mentioned previously, the community action plans are uniquely created and owned by each community to reflect their own culturally specific needs. The aim of the Esperance CAP is to create a sustainable long-term suicide prevention plan that develops through a process of community engagement with individuals, families and communities. I reiterate that this is the question the member needed to ask before she — Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : I will be checking the dates, don’t you worry. This has happened since this matter was raised in this chamber by me. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon HELEN MORTON : The member is suggesting that the information provided to me by the agencies involved is incorrect. The member continues to astound me with her lack of sensitivity and tact in this area.
Hon HELEN MORTON : Just a minute! My staff are highly professional, very competent and very capable of providing that type of information sensitively. It would be appropriate for members to get that type of information before they make grandiose, sensational statements about people and the tragedies they are experiencing. In the case of the Nundle family, I am advised that the Goldfields mental health service of the WA Country Health Service was in contact with Mrs Nundle’s daughter Cheryl on 12 May and again on 13 May 2011. Cheryl was offered an appointment but that was declined at the time. The Nundle family from Esperance has been offered and accepted support from WA Country Health Service’s Esperance Community Mental Health unit, which has acted, where possible, as a bridge to services and has made contact with one elder from the family to provide information on the support that is available. Another elder from the community has visited the mental health service clinic and is encouraging family members to access the service if care is needed. Escare is a community-based organisation in Esperance that has been providing daily support to the family, including home visits, for some months prior to Cheryl being referred to the WA Country Health Service’s Esperance Community Mental Health facility. Centrecare has taken the lead in providing grief counselling to the family and continues to maintain contact with the family. I am advised that an Aboriginal health worker has made contact with the family. Bega Garnbirringu Health Service is sending an Aboriginal health worker to Esperance to meet the Nundle family to advise the family on the type of support it may need. The local police and Esperance District Hospital are aware of the situation and are being vigilant over the family members or others known to the family who may present to them with a lowered mood, grief reactions and suicidal ideations. Through the ongoing implementation of the WA suicide prevention strategy, a community action plan is being developed in Esperance. As I have mentioned previously, the community action plans are uniquely created and owned by each community to reflect their own culturally specific needs. The aim of the Esperance CAP is to create a sustainable long-term suicide prevention plan that develops through a process of community engagement with individuals, families and communities. I reiterate that this is the question the member needed to ask before she — Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : I will be checking the dates, don’t you worry. This has happened since this matter was raised in this chamber by me. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon HELEN MORTON : The member is suggesting that the information provided to me by the agencies involved is incorrect. The member continues to astound me with her lack of sensitivity and tact in this area.
In the case of the Nundle family, I am advised that the Goldfields mental health service of the WA Country Health Service was in contact with Mrs Nundle’s daughter Cheryl on 12 May and again on 13 May 2011. Cheryl was offered an appointment but that was declined at the time. The Nundle family from Esperance has been offered and accepted support from WA Country Health Service’s Esperance Community Mental Health unit, which has acted, where possible, as a bridge to services and has made contact with one elder from the family to provide information on the support that is available. Another elder from the community has visited the mental health service clinic and is encouraging family members to access the service if care is needed. Escare is a community-based organisation in Esperance that has been providing daily support to the family, including home visits, for some months prior to Cheryl being referred to the WA Country Health Service’s Esperance Community Mental Health facility. Centrecare has taken the lead in providing grief counselling to the family and continues to maintain contact with the family. I am advised that an Aboriginal health worker has made contact with the family. Bega Garnbirringu Health Service is sending an Aboriginal health worker to Esperance to meet the Nundle family to advise the family on the type of support it may need. The local police and Esperance District Hospital are aware of the situation and are being vigilant over the family members or others known to the family who may present to them with a lowered mood, grief reactions and suicidal ideations. Through the ongoing implementation of the WA suicide prevention strategy, a community action plan is being developed in Esperance. As I have mentioned previously, the community action plans are uniquely created and owned by each community to reflect their own culturally specific needs. The aim of the Esperance CAP is to create a sustainable long-term suicide prevention plan that develops through a process of community engagement with individuals, families and communities. I reiterate that this is the question the member needed to ask before she — Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : I will be checking the dates, don’t you worry. This has happened since this matter was raised in this chamber by me. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon HELEN MORTON : The member is suggesting that the information provided to me by the agencies involved is incorrect. The member continues to astound me with her lack of sensitivity and tact in this area.
I reiterate that this is the question the member needed to ask before she — Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : I will be checking the dates, don’t you worry. This has happened since this matter was raised in this chamber by me. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon HELEN MORTON : The member is suggesting that the information provided to me by the agencies involved is incorrect. The member continues to astound me with her lack of sensitivity and tact in this area.
Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : I will be checking the dates, don’t you worry. This has happened since this matter was raised in this chamber by me. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon HELEN MORTON : The member is suggesting that the information provided to me by the agencies involved is incorrect. The member continues to astound me with her lack of sensitivity and tact in this area.
The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon HELEN MORTON : The member is suggesting that the information provided to me by the agencies involved is incorrect. The member continues to astound me with her lack of sensitivity and tact in this area.
Hon HELEN MORTON : The member is suggesting that the information provided to me by the agencies involved is incorrect. The member continues to astound me with her lack of sensitivity and tact in this area.
(1) Which government department, agency or service provider had met with Angela Nundle prior to 18 May 2011? (2) Which government department, agency or service provider has met with Angela Nundle since 18 May 2011? (3) What support has been given to Angela Nundle and her family by the Mental Health Commission, any other agency or service provider to help the Nundle family deal with their grief? (4) Which agency or service provider in Esperance is responsible for providing Angela Nundle with the help that she requires, and can the minister provide the name of a contact person that she should meet? (5) Why is funding for mental health and suicide prevention not finding its way to the grassroots? Hon HELEN MORTON replied: I thank the honourable member for some notice of the question. (1)–(5) These are probably the questions that needed to be asked before the member made comments during members’ statements yesterday or whenever it was with relatively little information. Hon Sue Ellery : It never used to stop you. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : Yeah, nothing ever stopped you, but I didn’t do it intentionally. Hon HELEN MORTON : I am glad to hear that because I am going to make a few comments about that. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us hear the answer. Hon HELEN MORTON : We are publicly discussing very vulnerable families in highly emotional times. These people are quite distressed, as the member knows. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : They’re desperate for services, minister. Hon HELEN MORTON : The member will hear about that in a minute. She needs to understand — The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us get the answer without a to-and-fro tennis match between a couple of members. Minister, address your answer through the Chair and I will not interrupt you. Hon HELEN MORTON : It is for these reasons that as politicians but, more importantly, as people we have a responsibility to ensure that when we speak of suicide and individual loss, we recognise the grief and the raw emotion associated with each and every loss and we act and speak in a manner that is befitting the grief and anguish that these people are experiencing at the time. I ask all members of Parliament who either have information or want to know information about a family in similar circumstances to the family Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich mentioned to make contact with my office. We can provide members with as much information as we can possibly get. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : I made contact with you about Eddie Dayeh and he lost his house. Hon HELEN MORTON : Just a minute! My staff are highly professional, very competent and very capable of providing that type of information sensitively. It would be appropriate for members to get that type of information before they make grandiose, sensational statements about people and the tragedies they are experiencing. In the case of the Nundle family, I am advised that the Goldfields mental health service of the WA Country Health Service was in contact with Mrs Nundle’s daughter Cheryl on 12 May and again on 13 May 2011. Cheryl was offered an appointment but that was declined at the time. The Nundle family from Esperance has been offered and accepted support from WA Country Health Service’s Esperance Community Mental Health unit, which has acted, where possible, as a bridge to services and has made contact with one elder from the family to provide information on the support that is available. Another elder from the community has visited the mental health service clinic and is encouraging family members to access the service if care is needed. Escare is a community-based organisation in Esperance that has been providing daily support to the family, including home visits, for some months prior to Cheryl being referred to the WA Country Health Service’s Esperance Community Mental Health facility. Centrecare has taken the lead in providing grief counselling to the family and continues to maintain contact with the family. I am advised that an Aboriginal health worker has made contact with the family. Bega Garnbirringu Health Service is sending an Aboriginal health worker to Esperance to meet the Nundle family to advise the family on the type of support it may need. The local police and Esperance District Hospital are aware of the situation and are being vigilant over the family members or others known to the family who may present to them with a lowered mood, grief reactions and suicidal ideations. Through the ongoing implementation of the WA suicide prevention strategy, a community action plan is being developed in Esperance. As I have mentioned previously, the community action plans are uniquely created and owned by each community to reflect their own culturally specific needs. The aim of the Esperance CAP is to create a sustainable long-term suicide prevention plan that develops through a process of community engagement with individuals, families and communities. I reiterate that this is the question the member needed to ask before she — Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : I will be checking the dates, don’t you worry. This has happened since this matter was raised in this chamber by me. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon HELEN MORTON : The member is suggesting that the information provided to me by the agencies involved is incorrect. The member continues to astound me with her lack of sensitivity and tact in this area.
(2) Which government department, agency or service provider has met with Angela Nundle since 18 May 2011? (3) What support has been given to Angela Nundle and her family by the Mental Health Commission, any other agency or service provider to help the Nundle family deal with their grief? (4) Which agency or service provider in Esperance is responsible for providing Angela Nundle with the help that she requires, and can the minister provide the name of a contact person that she should meet? (5) Why is funding for mental health and suicide prevention not finding its way to the grassroots? Hon HELEN MORTON replied: I thank the honourable member for some notice of the question. (1)–(5) These are probably the questions that needed to be asked before the member made comments during members’ statements yesterday or whenever it was with relatively little information. Hon Sue Ellery : It never used to stop you. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : Yeah, nothing ever stopped you, but I didn’t do it intentionally. Hon HELEN MORTON : I am glad to hear that because I am going to make a few comments about that. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us hear the answer. Hon HELEN MORTON : We are publicly discussing very vulnerable families in highly emotional times. These people are quite distressed, as the member knows. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : They’re desperate for services, minister. Hon HELEN MORTON : The member will hear about that in a minute. She needs to understand — The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us get the answer without a to-and-fro tennis match between a couple of members. Minister, address your answer through the Chair and I will not interrupt you. Hon HELEN MORTON : It is for these reasons that as politicians but, more importantly, as people we have a responsibility to ensure that when we speak of suicide and individual loss, we recognise the grief and the raw emotion associated with each and every loss and we act and speak in a manner that is befitting the grief and anguish that these people are experiencing at the time. I ask all members of Parliament who either have information or want to know information about a family in similar circumstances to the family Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich mentioned to make contact with my office. We can provide members with as much information as we can possibly get. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : I made contact with you about Eddie Dayeh and he lost his house. Hon HELEN MORTON : Just a minute! My staff are highly professional, very competent and very capable of providing that type of information sensitively. It would be appropriate for members to get that type of information before they make grandiose, sensational statements about people and the tragedies they are experiencing. In the case of the Nundle family, I am advised that the Goldfields mental health service of the WA Country Health Service was in contact with Mrs Nundle’s daughter Cheryl on 12 May and again on 13 May 2011. Cheryl was offered an appointment but that was declined at the time. The Nundle family from Esperance has been offered and accepted support from WA Country Health Service’s Esperance Community Mental Health unit, which has acted, where possible, as a bridge to services and has made contact with one elder from the family to provide information on the support that is available. Another elder from the community has visited the mental health service clinic and is encouraging family members to access the service if care is needed. Escare is a community-based organisation in Esperance that has been providing daily support to the family, including home visits, for some months prior to Cheryl being referred to the WA Country Health Service’s Esperance Community Mental Health facility. Centrecare has taken the lead in providing grief counselling to the family and continues to maintain contact with the family. I am advised that an Aboriginal health worker has made contact with the family. Bega Garnbirringu Health Service is sending an Aboriginal health worker to Esperance to meet the Nundle family to advise the family on the type of support it may need. The local police and Esperance District Hospital are aware of the situation and are being vigilant over the family members or others known to the family who may present to them with a lowered mood, grief reactions and suicidal ideations. Through the ongoing implementation of the WA suicide prevention strategy, a community action plan is being developed in Esperance. As I have mentioned previously, the community action plans are uniquely created and owned by each community to reflect their own culturally specific needs. The aim of the Esperance CAP is to create a sustainable long-term suicide prevention plan that develops through a process of community engagement with individuals, families and communities. I reiterate that this is the question the member needed to ask before she — Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : I will be checking the dates, don’t you worry. This has happened since this matter was raised in this chamber by me. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon HELEN MORTON : The member is suggesting that the information provided to me by the agencies involved is incorrect. The member continues to astound me with her lack of sensitivity and tact in this area.
(3) What support has been given to Angela Nundle and her family by the Mental Health Commission, any other agency or service provider to help the Nundle family deal with their grief? (4) Which agency or service provider in Esperance is responsible for providing Angela Nundle with the help that she requires, and can the minister provide the name of a contact person that she should meet? (5) Why is funding for mental health and suicide prevention not finding its way to the grassroots? Hon HELEN MORTON replied: I thank the honourable member for some notice of the question. (1)–(5) These are probably the questions that needed to be asked before the member made comments during members’ statements yesterday or whenever it was with relatively little information. Hon Sue Ellery : It never used to stop you. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : Yeah, nothing ever stopped you, but I didn’t do it intentionally. Hon HELEN MORTON : I am glad to hear that because I am going to make a few comments about that. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us hear the answer. Hon HELEN MORTON : We are publicly discussing very vulnerable families in highly emotional times. These people are quite distressed, as the member knows. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : They’re desperate for services, minister. Hon HELEN MORTON : The member will hear about that in a minute. She needs to understand — The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us get the answer without a to-and-fro tennis match between a couple of members. Minister, address your answer through the Chair and I will not interrupt you. Hon HELEN MORTON : It is for these reasons that as politicians but, more importantly, as people we have a responsibility to ensure that when we speak of suicide and individual loss, we recognise the grief and the raw emotion associated with each and every loss and we act and speak in a manner that is befitting the grief and anguish that these people are experiencing at the time. I ask all members of Parliament who either have information or want to know information about a family in similar circumstances to the family Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich mentioned to make contact with my office. We can provide members with as much information as we can possibly get. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : I made contact with you about Eddie Dayeh and he lost his house. Hon HELEN MORTON : Just a minute! My staff are highly professional, very competent and very capable of providing that type of information sensitively. It would be appropriate for members to get that type of information before they make grandiose, sensational statements about people and the tragedies they are experiencing. In the case of the Nundle family, I am advised that the Goldfields mental health service of the WA Country Health Service was in contact with Mrs Nundle’s daughter Cheryl on 12 May and again on 13 May 2011. Cheryl was offered an appointment but that was declined at the time. The Nundle family from Esperance has been offered and accepted support from WA Country Health Service’s Esperance Community Mental Health unit, which has acted, where possible, as a bridge to services and has made contact with one elder from the family to provide information on the support that is available. Another elder from the community has visited the mental health service clinic and is encouraging family members to access the service if care is needed. Escare is a community-based organisation in Esperance that has been providing daily support to the family, including home visits, for some months prior to Cheryl being referred to the WA Country Health Service’s Esperance Community Mental Health facility. Centrecare has taken the lead in providing grief counselling to the family and continues to maintain contact with the family. I am advised that an Aboriginal health worker has made contact with the family. Bega Garnbirringu Health Service is sending an Aboriginal health worker to Esperance to meet the Nundle family to advise the family on the type of support it may need. The local police and Esperance District Hospital are aware of the situation and are being vigilant over the family members or others known to the family who may present to them with a lowered mood, grief reactions and suicidal ideations. Through the ongoing implementation of the WA suicide prevention strategy, a community action plan is being developed in Esperance. As I have mentioned previously, the community action plans are uniquely created and owned by each community to reflect their own culturally specific needs. The aim of the Esperance CAP is to create a sustainable long-term suicide prevention plan that develops through a process of community engagement with individuals, families and communities. I reiterate that this is the question the member needed to ask before she — Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : I will be checking the dates, don’t you worry. This has happened since this matter was raised in this chamber by me. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon HELEN MORTON : The member is suggesting that the information provided to me by the agencies involved is incorrect. The member continues to astound me with her lack of sensitivity and tact in this area.
(4) Which agency or service provider in Esperance is responsible for providing Angela Nundle with the help that she requires, and can the minister provide the name of a contact person that she should meet? (5) Why is funding for mental health and suicide prevention not finding its way to the grassroots? Hon HELEN MORTON replied: I thank the honourable member for some notice of the question. (1)–(5) These are probably the questions that needed to be asked before the member made comments during members’ statements yesterday or whenever it was with relatively little information. Hon Sue Ellery : It never used to stop you. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : Yeah, nothing ever stopped you, but I didn’t do it intentionally. Hon HELEN MORTON : I am glad to hear that because I am going to make a few comments about that. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us hear the answer. Hon HELEN MORTON : We are publicly discussing very vulnerable families in highly emotional times. These people are quite distressed, as the member knows. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : They’re desperate for services, minister. Hon HELEN MORTON : The member will hear about that in a minute. She needs to understand — The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us get the answer without a to-and-fro tennis match between a couple of members. Minister, address your answer through the Chair and I will not interrupt you. Hon HELEN MORTON : It is for these reasons that as politicians but, more importantly, as people we have a responsibility to ensure that when we speak of suicide and individual loss, we recognise the grief and the raw emotion associated with each and every loss and we act and speak in a manner that is befitting the grief and anguish that these people are experiencing at the time. I ask all members of Parliament who either have information or want to know information about a family in similar circumstances to the family Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich mentioned to make contact with my office. We can provide members with as much information as we can possibly get. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : I made contact with you about Eddie Dayeh and he lost his house. Hon HELEN MORTON : Just a minute! My staff are highly professional, very competent and very capable of providing that type of information sensitively. It would be appropriate for members to get that type of information before they make grandiose, sensational statements about people and the tragedies they are experiencing. In the case of the Nundle family, I am advised that the Goldfields mental health service of the WA Country Health Service was in contact with Mrs Nundle’s daughter Cheryl on 12 May and again on 13 May 2011. Cheryl was offered an appointment but that was declined at the time. The Nundle family from Esperance has been offered and accepted support from WA Country Health Service’s Esperance Community Mental Health unit, which has acted, where possible, as a bridge to services and has made contact with one elder from the family to provide information on the support that is available. Another elder from the community has visited the mental health service clinic and is encouraging family members to access the service if care is needed. Escare is a community-based organisation in Esperance that has been providing daily support to the family, including home visits, for some months prior to Cheryl being referred to the WA Country Health Service’s Esperance Community Mental Health facility. Centrecare has taken the lead in providing grief counselling to the family and continues to maintain contact with the family. I am advised that an Aboriginal health worker has made contact with the family. Bega Garnbirringu Health Service is sending an Aboriginal health worker to Esperance to meet the Nundle family to advise the family on the type of support it may need. The local police and Esperance District Hospital are aware of the situation and are being vigilant over the family members or others known to the family who may present to them with a lowered mood, grief reactions and suicidal ideations. Through the ongoing implementation of the WA suicide prevention strategy, a community action plan is being developed in Esperance. As I have mentioned previously, the community action plans are uniquely created and owned by each community to reflect their own culturally specific needs. The aim of the Esperance CAP is to create a sustainable long-term suicide prevention plan that develops through a process of community engagement with individuals, families and communities. I reiterate that this is the question the member needed to ask before she — Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : I will be checking the dates, don’t you worry. This has happened since this matter was raised in this chamber by me. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon HELEN MORTON : The member is suggesting that the information provided to me by the agencies involved is incorrect. The member continues to astound me with her lack of sensitivity and tact in this area.
(5) Why is funding for mental health and suicide prevention not finding its way to the grassroots? Hon HELEN MORTON replied: I thank the honourable member for some notice of the question. (1)–(5) These are probably the questions that needed to be asked before the member made comments during members’ statements yesterday or whenever it was with relatively little information. Hon Sue Ellery : It never used to stop you. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : Yeah, nothing ever stopped you, but I didn’t do it intentionally. Hon HELEN MORTON : I am glad to hear that because I am going to make a few comments about that. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us hear the answer. Hon HELEN MORTON : We are publicly discussing very vulnerable families in highly emotional times. These people are quite distressed, as the member knows. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : They’re desperate for services, minister. Hon HELEN MORTON : The member will hear about that in a minute. She needs to understand — The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us get the answer without a to-and-fro tennis match between a couple of members. Minister, address your answer through the Chair and I will not interrupt you. Hon HELEN MORTON : It is for these reasons that as politicians but, more importantly, as people we have a responsibility to ensure that when we speak of suicide and individual loss, we recognise the grief and the raw emotion associated with each and every loss and we act and speak in a manner that is befitting the grief and anguish that these people are experiencing at the time. I ask all members of Parliament who either have information or want to know information about a family in similar circumstances to the family Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich mentioned to make contact with my office. We can provide members with as much information as we can possibly get. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : I made contact with you about Eddie Dayeh and he lost his house. Hon HELEN MORTON : Just a minute! My staff are highly professional, very competent and very capable of providing that type of information sensitively. It would be appropriate for members to get that type of information before they make grandiose, sensational statements about people and the tragedies they are experiencing. In the case of the Nundle family, I am advised that the Goldfields mental health service of the WA Country Health Service was in contact with Mrs Nundle’s daughter Cheryl on 12 May and again on 13 May 2011. Cheryl was offered an appointment but that was declined at the time. The Nundle family from Esperance has been offered and accepted support from WA Country Health Service’s Esperance Community Mental Health unit, which has acted, where possible, as a bridge to services and has made contact with one elder from the family to provide information on the support that is available. Another elder from the community has visited the mental health service clinic and is encouraging family members to access the service if care is needed. Escare is a community-based organisation in Esperance that has been providing daily support to the family, including home visits, for some months prior to Cheryl being referred to the WA Country Health Service’s Esperance Community Mental Health facility. Centrecare has taken the lead in providing grief counselling to the family and continues to maintain contact with the family. I am advised that an Aboriginal health worker has made contact with the family. Bega Garnbirringu Health Service is sending an Aboriginal health worker to Esperance to meet the Nundle family to advise the family on the type of support it may need. The local police and Esperance District Hospital are aware of the situation and are being vigilant over the family members or others known to the family who may present to them with a lowered mood, grief reactions and suicidal ideations. Through the ongoing implementation of the WA suicide prevention strategy, a community action plan is being developed in Esperance. As I have mentioned previously, the community action plans are uniquely created and owned by each community to reflect their own culturally specific needs. The aim of the Esperance CAP is to create a sustainable long-term suicide prevention plan that develops through a process of community engagement with individuals, families and communities. I reiterate that this is the question the member needed to ask before she — Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : I will be checking the dates, don’t you worry. This has happened since this matter was raised in this chamber by me. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon HELEN MORTON : The member is suggesting that the information provided to me by the agencies involved is incorrect. The member continues to astound me with her lack of sensitivity and tact in this area.
Hon HELEN MORTON replied: I thank the honourable member for some notice of the question. (1)–(5) These are probably the questions that needed to be asked before the member made comments during members’ statements yesterday or whenever it was with relatively little information. Hon Sue Ellery : It never used to stop you. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : Yeah, nothing ever stopped you, but I didn’t do it intentionally. Hon HELEN MORTON : I am glad to hear that because I am going to make a few comments about that. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us hear the answer. Hon HELEN MORTON : We are publicly discussing very vulnerable families in highly emotional times. These people are quite distressed, as the member knows. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : They’re desperate for services, minister. Hon HELEN MORTON : The member will hear about that in a minute. She needs to understand — The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us get the answer without a to-and-fro tennis match between a couple of members. Minister, address your answer through the Chair and I will not interrupt you. Hon HELEN MORTON : It is for these reasons that as politicians but, more importantly, as people we have a responsibility to ensure that when we speak of suicide and individual loss, we recognise the grief and the raw emotion associated with each and every loss and we act and speak in a manner that is befitting the grief and anguish that these people are experiencing at the time. I ask all members of Parliament who either have information or want to know information about a family in similar circumstances to the family Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich mentioned to make contact with my office. We can provide members with as much information as we can possibly get. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : I made contact with you about Eddie Dayeh and he lost his house. Hon HELEN MORTON : Just a minute! My staff are highly professional, very competent and very capable of providing that type of information sensitively. It would be appropriate for members to get that type of information before they make grandiose, sensational statements about people and the tragedies they are experiencing. In the case of the Nundle family, I am advised that the Goldfields mental health service of the WA Country Health Service was in contact with Mrs Nundle’s daughter Cheryl on 12 May and again on 13 May 2011. Cheryl was offered an appointment but that was declined at the time. The Nundle family from Esperance has been offered and accepted support from WA Country Health Service’s Esperance Community Mental Health unit, which has acted, where possible, as a bridge to services and has made contact with one elder from the family to provide information on the support that is available. Another elder from the community has visited the mental health service clinic and is encouraging family members to access the service if care is needed. Escare is a community-based organisation in Esperance that has been providing daily support to the family, including home visits, for some months prior to Cheryl being referred to the WA Country Health Service’s Esperance Community Mental Health facility. Centrecare has taken the lead in providing grief counselling to the family and continues to maintain contact with the family. I am advised that an Aboriginal health worker has made contact with the family. Bega Garnbirringu Health Service is sending an Aboriginal health worker to Esperance to meet the Nundle family to advise the family on the type of support it may need. The local police and Esperance District Hospital are aware of the situation and are being vigilant over the family members or others known to the family who may present to them with a lowered mood, grief reactions and suicidal ideations. Through the ongoing implementation of the WA suicide prevention strategy, a community action plan is being developed in Esperance. As I have mentioned previously, the community action plans are uniquely created and owned by each community to reflect their own culturally specific needs. The aim of the Esperance CAP is to create a sustainable long-term suicide prevention plan that develops through a process of community engagement with individuals, families and communities. I reiterate that this is the question the member needed to ask before she — Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : I will be checking the dates, don’t you worry. This has happened since this matter was raised in this chamber by me. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon HELEN MORTON : The member is suggesting that the information provided to me by the agencies involved is incorrect. The member continues to astound me with her lack of sensitivity and tact in this area.
I thank the honourable member for some notice of the question. (1)–(5) These are probably the questions that needed to be asked before the member made comments during members’ statements yesterday or whenever it was with relatively little information. Hon Sue Ellery : It never used to stop you. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : Yeah, nothing ever stopped you, but I didn’t do it intentionally. Hon HELEN MORTON : I am glad to hear that because I am going to make a few comments about that. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us hear the answer. Hon HELEN MORTON : We are publicly discussing very vulnerable families in highly emotional times. These people are quite distressed, as the member knows. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : They’re desperate for services, minister. Hon HELEN MORTON : The member will hear about that in a minute. She needs to understand — The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us get the answer without a to-and-fro tennis match between a couple of members. Minister, address your answer through the Chair and I will not interrupt you. Hon HELEN MORTON : It is for these reasons that as politicians but, more importantly, as people we have a responsibility to ensure that when we speak of suicide and individual loss, we recognise the grief and the raw emotion associated with each and every loss and we act and speak in a manner that is befitting the grief and anguish that these people are experiencing at the time. I ask all members of Parliament who either have information or want to know information about a family in similar circumstances to the family Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich mentioned to make contact with my office. We can provide members with as much information as we can possibly get. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : I made contact with you about Eddie Dayeh and he lost his house. Hon HELEN MORTON : Just a minute! My staff are highly professional, very competent and very capable of providing that type of information sensitively. It would be appropriate for members to get that type of information before they make grandiose, sensational statements about people and the tragedies they are experiencing. In the case of the Nundle family, I am advised that the Goldfields mental health service of the WA Country Health Service was in contact with Mrs Nundle’s daughter Cheryl on 12 May and again on 13 May 2011. Cheryl was offered an appointment but that was declined at the time. The Nundle family from Esperance has been offered and accepted support from WA Country Health Service’s Esperance Community Mental Health unit, which has acted, where possible, as a bridge to services and has made contact with one elder from the family to provide information on the support that is available. Another elder from the community has visited the mental health service clinic and is encouraging family members to access the service if care is needed. Escare is a community-based organisation in Esperance that has been providing daily support to the family, including home visits, for some months prior to Cheryl being referred to the WA Country Health Service’s Esperance Community Mental Health facility. Centrecare has taken the lead in providing grief counselling to the family and continues to maintain contact with the family. I am advised that an Aboriginal health worker has made contact with the family. Bega Garnbirringu Health Service is sending an Aboriginal health worker to Esperance to meet the Nundle family to advise the family on the type of support it may need. The local police and Esperance District Hospital are aware of the situation and are being vigilant over the family members or others known to the family who may present to them with a lowered mood, grief reactions and suicidal ideations. Through the ongoing implementation of the WA suicide prevention strategy, a community action plan is being developed in Esperance. As I have mentioned previously, the community action plans are uniquely created and owned by each community to reflect their own culturally specific needs. The aim of the Esperance CAP is to create a sustainable long-term suicide prevention plan that develops through a process of community engagement with individuals, families and communities. I reiterate that this is the question the member needed to ask before she — Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : I will be checking the dates, don’t you worry. This has happened since this matter was raised in this chamber by me. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon HELEN MORTON : The member is suggesting that the information provided to me by the agencies involved is incorrect. The member continues to astound me with her lack of sensitivity and tact in this area.
(1)–(5) These are probably the questions that needed to be asked before the member made comments during members’ statements yesterday or whenever it was with relatively little information. Hon Sue Ellery : It never used to stop you. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : Yeah, nothing ever stopped you, but I didn’t do it intentionally. Hon HELEN MORTON : I am glad to hear that because I am going to make a few comments about that. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us hear the answer. Hon HELEN MORTON : We are publicly discussing very vulnerable families in highly emotional times. These people are quite distressed, as the member knows. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : They’re desperate for services, minister. Hon HELEN MORTON : The member will hear about that in a minute. She needs to understand — The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us get the answer without a to-and-fro tennis match between a couple of members. Minister, address your answer through the Chair and I will not interrupt you. Hon HELEN MORTON : It is for these reasons that as politicians but, more importantly, as people we have a responsibility to ensure that when we speak of suicide and individual loss, we recognise the grief and the raw emotion associated with each and every loss and we act and speak in a manner that is befitting the grief and anguish that these people are experiencing at the time. I ask all members of Parliament who either have information or want to know information about a family in similar circumstances to the family Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich mentioned to make contact with my office. We can provide members with as much information as we can possibly get. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : I made contact with you about Eddie Dayeh and he lost his house. Hon HELEN MORTON : Just a minute! My staff are highly professional, very competent and very capable of providing that type of information sensitively. It would be appropriate for members to get that type of information before they make grandiose, sensational statements about people and the tragedies they are experiencing. In the case of the Nundle family, I am advised that the Goldfields mental health service of the WA Country Health Service was in contact with Mrs Nundle’s daughter Cheryl on 12 May and again on 13 May 2011. Cheryl was offered an appointment but that was declined at the time. The Nundle family from Esperance has been offered and accepted support from WA Country Health Service’s Esperance Community Mental Health unit, which has acted, where possible, as a bridge to services and has made contact with one elder from the family to provide information on the support that is available. Another elder from the community has visited the mental health service clinic and is encouraging family members to access the service if care is needed. Escare is a community-based organisation in Esperance that has been providing daily support to the family, including home visits, for some months prior to Cheryl being referred to the WA Country Health Service’s Esperance Community Mental Health facility. Centrecare has taken the lead in providing grief counselling to the family and continues to maintain contact with the family. I am advised that an Aboriginal health worker has made contact with the family. Bega Garnbirringu Health Service is sending an Aboriginal health worker to Esperance to meet the Nundle family to advise the family on the type of support it may need. The local police and Esperance District Hospital are aware of the situation and are being vigilant over the family members or others known to the family who may present to them with a lowered mood, grief reactions and suicidal ideations. Through the ongoing implementation of the WA suicide prevention strategy, a community action plan is being developed in Esperance. As I have mentioned previously, the community action plans are uniquely created and owned by each community to reflect their own culturally specific needs. The aim of the Esperance CAP is to create a sustainable long-term suicide prevention plan that develops through a process of community engagement with individuals, families and communities. I reiterate that this is the question the member needed to ask before she — Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : I will be checking the dates, don’t you worry. This has happened since this matter was raised in this chamber by me. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon HELEN MORTON : The member is suggesting that the information provided to me by the agencies involved is incorrect. The member continues to astound me with her lack of sensitivity and tact in this area.
Hon Sue Ellery : It never used to stop you. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : Yeah, nothing ever stopped you, but I didn’t do it intentionally. Hon HELEN MORTON : I am glad to hear that because I am going to make a few comments about that. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us hear the answer. Hon HELEN MORTON : We are publicly discussing very vulnerable families in highly emotional times. These people are quite distressed, as the member knows. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : They’re desperate for services, minister. Hon HELEN MORTON : The member will hear about that in a minute. She needs to understand — The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us get the answer without a to-and-fro tennis match between a couple of members. Minister, address your answer through the Chair and I will not interrupt you. Hon HELEN MORTON : It is for these reasons that as politicians but, more importantly, as people we have a responsibility to ensure that when we speak of suicide and individual loss, we recognise the grief and the raw emotion associated with each and every loss and we act and speak in a manner that is befitting the grief and anguish that these people are experiencing at the time. I ask all members of Parliament who either have information or want to know information about a family in similar circumstances to the family Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich mentioned to make contact with my office. We can provide members with as much information as we can possibly get. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : I made contact with you about Eddie Dayeh and he lost his house. Hon HELEN MORTON : Just a minute! My staff are highly professional, very competent and very capable of providing that type of information sensitively. It would be appropriate for members to get that type of information before they make grandiose, sensational statements about people and the tragedies they are experiencing. In the case of the Nundle family, I am advised that the Goldfields mental health service of the WA Country Health Service was in contact with Mrs Nundle’s daughter Cheryl on 12 May and again on 13 May 2011. Cheryl was offered an appointment but that was declined at the time. The Nundle family from Esperance has been offered and accepted support from WA Country Health Service’s Esperance Community Mental Health unit, which has acted, where possible, as a bridge to services and has made contact with one elder from the family to provide information on the support that is available. Another elder from the community has visited the mental health service clinic and is encouraging family members to access the service if care is needed. Escare is a community-based organisation in Esperance that has been providing daily support to the family, including home visits, for some months prior to Cheryl being referred to the WA Country Health Service’s Esperance Community Mental Health facility. Centrecare has taken the lead in providing grief counselling to the family and continues to maintain contact with the family. I am advised that an Aboriginal health worker has made contact with the family. Bega Garnbirringu Health Service is sending an Aboriginal health worker to Esperance to meet the Nundle family to advise the family on the type of support it may need. The local police and Esperance District Hospital are aware of the situation and are being vigilant over the family members or others known to the family who may present to them with a lowered mood, grief reactions and suicidal ideations. Through the ongoing implementation of the WA suicide prevention strategy, a community action plan is being developed in Esperance. As I have mentioned previously, the community action plans are uniquely created and owned by each community to reflect their own culturally specific needs. The aim of the Esperance CAP is to create a sustainable long-term suicide prevention plan that develops through a process of community engagement with individuals, families and communities. I reiterate that this is the question the member needed to ask before she — Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : I will be checking the dates, don’t you worry. This has happened since this matter was raised in this chamber by me. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon HELEN MORTON : The member is suggesting that the information provided to me by the agencies involved is incorrect. The member continues to astound me with her lack of sensitivity and tact in this area.
Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : Yeah, nothing ever stopped you, but I didn’t do it intentionally. Hon HELEN MORTON : I am glad to hear that because I am going to make a few comments about that. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us hear the answer. Hon HELEN MORTON : We are publicly discussing very vulnerable families in highly emotional times. These people are quite distressed, as the member knows. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : They’re desperate for services, minister. Hon HELEN MORTON : The member will hear about that in a minute. She needs to understand — The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us get the answer without a to-and-fro tennis match between a couple of members. Minister, address your answer through the Chair and I will not interrupt you. Hon HELEN MORTON : It is for these reasons that as politicians but, more importantly, as people we have a responsibility to ensure that when we speak of suicide and individual loss, we recognise the grief and the raw emotion associated with each and every loss and we act and speak in a manner that is befitting the grief and anguish that these people are experiencing at the time. I ask all members of Parliament who either have information or want to know information about a family in similar circumstances to the family Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich mentioned to make contact with my office. We can provide members with as much information as we can possibly get. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : I made contact with you about Eddie Dayeh and he lost his house. Hon HELEN MORTON : Just a minute! My staff are highly professional, very competent and very capable of providing that type of information sensitively. It would be appropriate for members to get that type of information before they make grandiose, sensational statements about people and the tragedies they are experiencing. In the case of the Nundle family, I am advised that the Goldfields mental health service of the WA Country Health Service was in contact with Mrs Nundle’s daughter Cheryl on 12 May and again on 13 May 2011. Cheryl was offered an appointment but that was declined at the time. The Nundle family from Esperance has been offered and accepted support from WA Country Health Service’s Esperance Community Mental Health unit, which has acted, where possible, as a bridge to services and has made contact with one elder from the family to provide information on the support that is available. Another elder from the community has visited the mental health service clinic and is encouraging family members to access the service if care is needed. Escare is a community-based organisation in Esperance that has been providing daily support to the family, including home visits, for some months prior to Cheryl being referred to the WA Country Health Service’s Esperance Community Mental Health facility. Centrecare has taken the lead in providing grief counselling to the family and continues to maintain contact with the family. I am advised that an Aboriginal health worker has made contact with the family. Bega Garnbirringu Health Service is sending an Aboriginal health worker to Esperance to meet the Nundle family to advise the family on the type of support it may need. The local police and Esperance District Hospital are aware of the situation and are being vigilant over the family members or others known to the family who may present to them with a lowered mood, grief reactions and suicidal ideations. Through the ongoing implementation of the WA suicide prevention strategy, a community action plan is being developed in Esperance. As I have mentioned previously, the community action plans are uniquely created and owned by each community to reflect their own culturally specific needs. The aim of the Esperance CAP is to create a sustainable long-term suicide prevention plan that develops through a process of community engagement with individuals, families and communities. I reiterate that this is the question the member needed to ask before she — Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : I will be checking the dates, don’t you worry. This has happened since this matter was raised in this chamber by me. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon HELEN MORTON : The member is suggesting that the information provided to me by the agencies involved is incorrect. The member continues to astound me with her lack of sensitivity and tact in this area.
Hon HELEN MORTON : I am glad to hear that because I am going to make a few comments about that. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us hear the answer. Hon HELEN MORTON : We are publicly discussing very vulnerable families in highly emotional times. These people are quite distressed, as the member knows. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : They’re desperate for services, minister. Hon HELEN MORTON : The member will hear about that in a minute. She needs to understand — The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us get the answer without a to-and-fro tennis match between a couple of members. Minister, address your answer through the Chair and I will not interrupt you. Hon HELEN MORTON : It is for these reasons that as politicians but, more importantly, as people we have a responsibility to ensure that when we speak of suicide and individual loss, we recognise the grief and the raw emotion associated with each and every loss and we act and speak in a manner that is befitting the grief and anguish that these people are experiencing at the time. I ask all members of Parliament who either have information or want to know information about a family in similar circumstances to the family Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich mentioned to make contact with my office. We can provide members with as much information as we can possibly get. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : I made contact with you about Eddie Dayeh and he lost his house. Hon HELEN MORTON : Just a minute! My staff are highly professional, very competent and very capable of providing that type of information sensitively. It would be appropriate for members to get that type of information before they make grandiose, sensational statements about people and the tragedies they are experiencing. In the case of the Nundle family, I am advised that the Goldfields mental health service of the WA Country Health Service was in contact with Mrs Nundle’s daughter Cheryl on 12 May and again on 13 May 2011. Cheryl was offered an appointment but that was declined at the time. The Nundle family from Esperance has been offered and accepted support from WA Country Health Service’s Esperance Community Mental Health unit, which has acted, where possible, as a bridge to services and has made contact with one elder from the family to provide information on the support that is available. Another elder from the community has visited the mental health service clinic and is encouraging family members to access the service if care is needed. Escare is a community-based organisation in Esperance that has been providing daily support to the family, including home visits, for some months prior to Cheryl being referred to the WA Country Health Service’s Esperance Community Mental Health facility. Centrecare has taken the lead in providing grief counselling to the family and continues to maintain contact with the family. I am advised that an Aboriginal health worker has made contact with the family. Bega Garnbirringu Health Service is sending an Aboriginal health worker to Esperance to meet the Nundle family to advise the family on the type of support it may need. The local police and Esperance District Hospital are aware of the situation and are being vigilant over the family members or others known to the family who may present to them with a lowered mood, grief reactions and suicidal ideations. Through the ongoing implementation of the WA suicide prevention strategy, a community action plan is being developed in Esperance. As I have mentioned previously, the community action plans are uniquely created and owned by each community to reflect their own culturally specific needs. The aim of the Esperance CAP is to create a sustainable long-term suicide prevention plan that develops through a process of community engagement with individuals, families and communities. I reiterate that this is the question the member needed to ask before she — Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : I will be checking the dates, don’t you worry. This has happened since this matter was raised in this chamber by me. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon HELEN MORTON : The member is suggesting that the information provided to me by the agencies involved is incorrect. The member continues to astound me with her lack of sensitivity and tact in this area.
Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich interjected. The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us hear the answer. Hon HELEN MORTON : We are publicly discussing very vulnerable families in highly emotional times. These people are quite distressed, as the member knows. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : They’re desperate for services, minister. Hon HELEN MORTON : The member will hear about that in a minute. She needs to understand — The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us get the answer without a to-and-fro tennis match between a couple of members. Minister, address your answer through the Chair and I will not interrupt you. Hon HELEN MORTON : It is for these reasons that as politicians but, more importantly, as people we have a responsibility to ensure that when we speak of suicide and individual loss, we recognise the grief and the raw emotion associated with each and every loss and we act and speak in a manner that is befitting the grief and anguish that these people are experiencing at the time. I ask all members of Parliament who either have information or want to know information about a family in similar circumstances to the family Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich mentioned to make contact with my office. We can provide members with as much information as we can possibly get. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : I made contact with you about Eddie Dayeh and he lost his house. Hon HELEN MORTON : Just a minute! My staff are highly professional, very competent and very capable of providing that type of information sensitively. It would be appropriate for members to get that type of information before they make grandiose, sensational statements about people and the tragedies they are experiencing. In the case of the Nundle family, I am advised that the Goldfields mental health service of the WA Country Health Service was in contact with Mrs Nundle’s daughter Cheryl on 12 May and again on 13 May 2011. Cheryl was offered an appointment but that was declined at the time. The Nundle family from Esperance has been offered and accepted support from WA Country Health Service’s Esperance Community Mental Health unit, which has acted, where possible, as a bridge to services and has made contact with one elder from the family to provide information on the support that is available. Another elder from the community has visited the mental health service clinic and is encouraging family members to access the service if care is needed. Escare is a community-based organisation in Esperance that has been providing daily support to the family, including home visits, for some months prior to Cheryl being referred to the WA Country Health Service’s Esperance Community Mental Health facility. Centrecare has taken the lead in providing grief counselling to the family and continues to maintain contact with the family. I am advised that an Aboriginal health worker has made contact with the family. Bega Garnbirringu Health Service is sending an Aboriginal health worker to Esperance to meet the Nundle family to advise the family on the type of support it may need. The local police and Esperance District Hospital are aware of the situation and are being vigilant over the family members or others known to the family who may present to them with a lowered mood, grief reactions and suicidal ideations. Through the ongoing implementation of the WA suicide prevention strategy, a community action plan is being developed in Esperance. As I have mentioned previously, the community action plans are uniquely created and owned by each community to reflect their own culturally specific needs. The aim of the Esperance CAP is to create a sustainable long-term suicide prevention plan that develops through a process of community engagement with individuals, families and communities. I reiterate that this is the question the member needed to ask before she — Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : I will be checking the dates, don’t you worry. This has happened since this matter was raised in this chamber by me. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon HELEN MORTON : The member is suggesting that the information provided to me by the agencies involved is incorrect. The member continues to astound me with her lack of sensitivity and tact in this area.
The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us hear the answer. Hon HELEN MORTON : We are publicly discussing very vulnerable families in highly emotional times. These people are quite distressed, as the member knows. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : They’re desperate for services, minister. Hon HELEN MORTON : The member will hear about that in a minute. She needs to understand — The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us get the answer without a to-and-fro tennis match between a couple of members. Minister, address your answer through the Chair and I will not interrupt you. Hon HELEN MORTON : It is for these reasons that as politicians but, more importantly, as people we have a responsibility to ensure that when we speak of suicide and individual loss, we recognise the grief and the raw emotion associated with each and every loss and we act and speak in a manner that is befitting the grief and anguish that these people are experiencing at the time. I ask all members of Parliament who either have information or want to know information about a family in similar circumstances to the family Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich mentioned to make contact with my office. We can provide members with as much information as we can possibly get. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : I made contact with you about Eddie Dayeh and he lost his house. Hon HELEN MORTON : Just a minute! My staff are highly professional, very competent and very capable of providing that type of information sensitively. It would be appropriate for members to get that type of information before they make grandiose, sensational statements about people and the tragedies they are experiencing. In the case of the Nundle family, I am advised that the Goldfields mental health service of the WA Country Health Service was in contact with Mrs Nundle’s daughter Cheryl on 12 May and again on 13 May 2011. Cheryl was offered an appointment but that was declined at the time. The Nundle family from Esperance has been offered and accepted support from WA Country Health Service’s Esperance Community Mental Health unit, which has acted, where possible, as a bridge to services and has made contact with one elder from the family to provide information on the support that is available. Another elder from the community has visited the mental health service clinic and is encouraging family members to access the service if care is needed. Escare is a community-based organisation in Esperance that has been providing daily support to the family, including home visits, for some months prior to Cheryl being referred to the WA Country Health Service’s Esperance Community Mental Health facility. Centrecare has taken the lead in providing grief counselling to the family and continues to maintain contact with the family. I am advised that an Aboriginal health worker has made contact with the family. Bega Garnbirringu Health Service is sending an Aboriginal health worker to Esperance to meet the Nundle family to advise the family on the type of support it may need. The local police and Esperance District Hospital are aware of the situation and are being vigilant over the family members or others known to the family who may present to them with a lowered mood, grief reactions and suicidal ideations. Through the ongoing implementation of the WA suicide prevention strategy, a community action plan is being developed in Esperance. As I have mentioned previously, the community action plans are uniquely created and owned by each community to reflect their own culturally specific needs. The aim of the Esperance CAP is to create a sustainable long-term suicide prevention plan that develops through a process of community engagement with individuals, families and communities. I reiterate that this is the question the member needed to ask before she — Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : I will be checking the dates, don’t you worry. This has happened since this matter was raised in this chamber by me. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon HELEN MORTON : The member is suggesting that the information provided to me by the agencies involved is incorrect. The member continues to astound me with her lack of sensitivity and tact in this area.
Hon HELEN MORTON : We are publicly discussing very vulnerable families in highly emotional times. These people are quite distressed, as the member knows. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : They’re desperate for services, minister. Hon HELEN MORTON : The member will hear about that in a minute. She needs to understand — The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us get the answer without a to-and-fro tennis match between a couple of members. Minister, address your answer through the Chair and I will not interrupt you. Hon HELEN MORTON : It is for these reasons that as politicians but, more importantly, as people we have a responsibility to ensure that when we speak of suicide and individual loss, we recognise the grief and the raw emotion associated with each and every loss and we act and speak in a manner that is befitting the grief and anguish that these people are experiencing at the time. I ask all members of Parliament who either have information or want to know information about a family in similar circumstances to the family Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich mentioned to make contact with my office. We can provide members with as much information as we can possibly get. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : I made contact with you about Eddie Dayeh and he lost his house. Hon HELEN MORTON : Just a minute! My staff are highly professional, very competent and very capable of providing that type of information sensitively. It would be appropriate for members to get that type of information before they make grandiose, sensational statements about people and the tragedies they are experiencing. In the case of the Nundle family, I am advised that the Goldfields mental health service of the WA Country Health Service was in contact with Mrs Nundle’s daughter Cheryl on 12 May and again on 13 May 2011. Cheryl was offered an appointment but that was declined at the time. The Nundle family from Esperance has been offered and accepted support from WA Country Health Service’s Esperance Community Mental Health unit, which has acted, where possible, as a bridge to services and has made contact with one elder from the family to provide information on the support that is available. Another elder from the community has visited the mental health service clinic and is encouraging family members to access the service if care is needed. Escare is a community-based organisation in Esperance that has been providing daily support to the family, including home visits, for some months prior to Cheryl being referred to the WA Country Health Service’s Esperance Community Mental Health facility. Centrecare has taken the lead in providing grief counselling to the family and continues to maintain contact with the family. I am advised that an Aboriginal health worker has made contact with the family. Bega Garnbirringu Health Service is sending an Aboriginal health worker to Esperance to meet the Nundle family to advise the family on the type of support it may need. The local police and Esperance District Hospital are aware of the situation and are being vigilant over the family members or others known to the family who may present to them with a lowered mood, grief reactions and suicidal ideations. Through the ongoing implementation of the WA suicide prevention strategy, a community action plan is being developed in Esperance. As I have mentioned previously, the community action plans are uniquely created and owned by each community to reflect their own culturally specific needs. The aim of the Esperance CAP is to create a sustainable long-term suicide prevention plan that develops through a process of community engagement with individuals, families and communities. I reiterate that this is the question the member needed to ask before she — Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : I will be checking the dates, don’t you worry. This has happened since this matter was raised in this chamber by me. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon HELEN MORTON : The member is suggesting that the information provided to me by the agencies involved is incorrect. The member continues to astound me with her lack of sensitivity and tact in this area.
Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : They’re desperate for services, minister. Hon HELEN MORTON : The member will hear about that in a minute. She needs to understand — The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us get the answer without a to-and-fro tennis match between a couple of members. Minister, address your answer through the Chair and I will not interrupt you. Hon HELEN MORTON : It is for these reasons that as politicians but, more importantly, as people we have a responsibility to ensure that when we speak of suicide and individual loss, we recognise the grief and the raw emotion associated with each and every loss and we act and speak in a manner that is befitting the grief and anguish that these people are experiencing at the time. I ask all members of Parliament who either have information or want to know information about a family in similar circumstances to the family Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich mentioned to make contact with my office. We can provide members with as much information as we can possibly get. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : I made contact with you about Eddie Dayeh and he lost his house. Hon HELEN MORTON : Just a minute! My staff are highly professional, very competent and very capable of providing that type of information sensitively. It would be appropriate for members to get that type of information before they make grandiose, sensational statements about people and the tragedies they are experiencing. In the case of the Nundle family, I am advised that the Goldfields mental health service of the WA Country Health Service was in contact with Mrs Nundle’s daughter Cheryl on 12 May and again on 13 May 2011. Cheryl was offered an appointment but that was declined at the time. The Nundle family from Esperance has been offered and accepted support from WA Country Health Service’s Esperance Community Mental Health unit, which has acted, where possible, as a bridge to services and has made contact with one elder from the family to provide information on the support that is available. Another elder from the community has visited the mental health service clinic and is encouraging family members to access the service if care is needed. Escare is a community-based organisation in Esperance that has been providing daily support to the family, including home visits, for some months prior to Cheryl being referred to the WA Country Health Service’s Esperance Community Mental Health facility. Centrecare has taken the lead in providing grief counselling to the family and continues to maintain contact with the family. I am advised that an Aboriginal health worker has made contact with the family. Bega Garnbirringu Health Service is sending an Aboriginal health worker to Esperance to meet the Nundle family to advise the family on the type of support it may need. The local police and Esperance District Hospital are aware of the situation and are being vigilant over the family members or others known to the family who may present to them with a lowered mood, grief reactions and suicidal ideations. Through the ongoing implementation of the WA suicide prevention strategy, a community action plan is being developed in Esperance. As I have mentioned previously, the community action plans are uniquely created and owned by each community to reflect their own culturally specific needs. The aim of the Esperance CAP is to create a sustainable long-term suicide prevention plan that develops through a process of community engagement with individuals, families and communities. I reiterate that this is the question the member needed to ask before she — Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : I will be checking the dates, don’t you worry. This has happened since this matter was raised in this chamber by me. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon HELEN MORTON : The member is suggesting that the information provided to me by the agencies involved is incorrect. The member continues to astound me with her lack of sensitivity and tact in this area.
Hon HELEN MORTON : The member will hear about that in a minute. She needs to understand — The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us get the answer without a to-and-fro tennis match between a couple of members. Minister, address your answer through the Chair and I will not interrupt you. Hon HELEN MORTON : It is for these reasons that as politicians but, more importantly, as people we have a responsibility to ensure that when we speak of suicide and individual loss, we recognise the grief and the raw emotion associated with each and every loss and we act and speak in a manner that is befitting the grief and anguish that these people are experiencing at the time. I ask all members of Parliament who either have information or want to know information about a family in similar circumstances to the family Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich mentioned to make contact with my office. We can provide members with as much information as we can possibly get. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : I made contact with you about Eddie Dayeh and he lost his house. Hon HELEN MORTON : Just a minute! My staff are highly professional, very competent and very capable of providing that type of information sensitively. It would be appropriate for members to get that type of information before they make grandiose, sensational statements about people and the tragedies they are experiencing. In the case of the Nundle family, I am advised that the Goldfields mental health service of the WA Country Health Service was in contact with Mrs Nundle’s daughter Cheryl on 12 May and again on 13 May 2011. Cheryl was offered an appointment but that was declined at the time. The Nundle family from Esperance has been offered and accepted support from WA Country Health Service’s Esperance Community Mental Health unit, which has acted, where possible, as a bridge to services and has made contact with one elder from the family to provide information on the support that is available. Another elder from the community has visited the mental health service clinic and is encouraging family members to access the service if care is needed. Escare is a community-based organisation in Esperance that has been providing daily support to the family, including home visits, for some months prior to Cheryl being referred to the WA Country Health Service’s Esperance Community Mental Health facility. Centrecare has taken the lead in providing grief counselling to the family and continues to maintain contact with the family. I am advised that an Aboriginal health worker has made contact with the family. Bega Garnbirringu Health Service is sending an Aboriginal health worker to Esperance to meet the Nundle family to advise the family on the type of support it may need. The local police and Esperance District Hospital are aware of the situation and are being vigilant over the family members or others known to the family who may present to them with a lowered mood, grief reactions and suicidal ideations. Through the ongoing implementation of the WA suicide prevention strategy, a community action plan is being developed in Esperance. As I have mentioned previously, the community action plans are uniquely created and owned by each community to reflect their own culturally specific needs. The aim of the Esperance CAP is to create a sustainable long-term suicide prevention plan that develops through a process of community engagement with individuals, families and communities. I reiterate that this is the question the member needed to ask before she — Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : I will be checking the dates, don’t you worry. This has happened since this matter was raised in this chamber by me. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon HELEN MORTON : The member is suggesting that the information provided to me by the agencies involved is incorrect. The member continues to astound me with her lack of sensitivity and tact in this area.
The PRESIDENT : Order! Let us get the answer without a to-and-fro tennis match between a couple of members. Minister, address your answer through the Chair and I will not interrupt you. Hon HELEN MORTON : It is for these reasons that as politicians but, more importantly, as people we have a responsibility to ensure that when we speak of suicide and individual loss, we recognise the grief and the raw emotion associated with each and every loss and we act and speak in a manner that is befitting the grief and anguish that these people are experiencing at the time. I ask all members of Parliament who either have information or want to know information about a family in similar circumstances to the family Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich mentioned to make contact with my office. We can provide members with as much information as we can possibly get. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : I made contact with you about Eddie Dayeh and he lost his house. Hon HELEN MORTON : Just a minute! My staff are highly professional, very competent and very capable of providing that type of information sensitively. It would be appropriate for members to get that type of information before they make grandiose, sensational statements about people and the tragedies they are experiencing. In the case of the Nundle family, I am advised that the Goldfields mental health service of the WA Country Health Service was in contact with Mrs Nundle’s daughter Cheryl on 12 May and again on 13 May 2011. Cheryl was offered an appointment but that was declined at the time. The Nundle family from Esperance has been offered and accepted support from WA Country Health Service’s Esperance Community Mental Health unit, which has acted, where possible, as a bridge to services and has made contact with one elder from the family to provide information on the support that is available. Another elder from the community has visited the mental health service clinic and is encouraging family members to access the service if care is needed. Escare is a community-based organisation in Esperance that has been providing daily support to the family, including home visits, for some months prior to Cheryl being referred to the WA Country Health Service’s Esperance Community Mental Health facility. Centrecare has taken the lead in providing grief counselling to the family and continues to maintain contact with the family. I am advised that an Aboriginal health worker has made contact with the family. Bega Garnbirringu Health Service is sending an Aboriginal health worker to Esperance to meet the Nundle family to advise the family on the type of support it may need. The local police and Esperance District Hospital are aware of the situation and are being vigilant over the family members or others known to the family who may present to them with a lowered mood, grief reactions and suicidal ideations. Through the ongoing implementation of the WA suicide prevention strategy, a community action plan is being developed in Esperance. As I have mentioned previously, the community action plans are uniquely created and owned by each community to reflect their own culturally specific needs. The aim of the Esperance CAP is to create a sustainable long-term suicide prevention plan that develops through a process of community engagement with individuals, families and communities. I reiterate that this is the question the member needed to ask before she — Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : I will be checking the dates, don’t you worry. This has happened since this matter was raised in this chamber by me. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon HELEN MORTON : The member is suggesting that the information provided to me by the agencies involved is incorrect. The member continues to astound me with her lack of sensitivity and tact in this area.
Hon HELEN MORTON : It is for these reasons that as politicians but, more importantly, as people we have a responsibility to ensure that when we speak of suicide and individual loss, we recognise the grief and the raw emotion associated with each and every loss and we act and speak in a manner that is befitting the grief and anguish that these people are experiencing at the time. I ask all members of Parliament who either have information or want to know information about a family in similar circumstances to the family Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich mentioned to make contact with my office. We can provide members with as much information as we can possibly get. Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : I made contact with you about Eddie Dayeh and he lost his house. Hon HELEN MORTON : Just a minute! My staff are highly professional, very competent and very capable of providing that type of information sensitively. It would be appropriate for members to get that type of information before they make grandiose, sensational statements about people and the tragedies they are experiencing. In the case of the Nundle family, I am advised that the Goldfields mental health service of the WA Country Health Service was in contact with Mrs Nundle’s daughter Cheryl on 12 May and again on 13 May 2011. Cheryl was offered an appointment but that was declined at the time. The Nundle family from Esperance has been offered and accepted support from WA Country Health Service’s Esperance Community Mental Health unit, which has acted, where possible, as a bridge to services and has made contact with one elder from the family to provide information on the support that is available. Another elder from the community has visited the mental health service clinic and is encouraging family members to access the service if care is needed. Escare is a community-based organisation in Esperance that has been providing daily support to the family, including home visits, for some months prior to Cheryl being referred to the WA Country Health Service’s Esperance Community Mental Health facility. Centrecare has taken the lead in providing grief counselling to the family and continues to maintain contact with the family. I am advised that an Aboriginal health worker has made contact with the family. Bega Garnbirringu Health Service is sending an Aboriginal health worker to Esperance to meet the Nundle family to advise the family on the type of support it may need. The local police and Esperance District Hospital are aware of the situation and are being vigilant over the family members or others known to the family who may present to them with a lowered mood, grief reactions and suicidal ideations. Through the ongoing implementation of the WA suicide prevention strategy, a community action plan is being developed in Esperance. As I have mentioned previously, the community action plans are uniquely created and owned by each community to reflect their own culturally specific needs. The aim of the Esperance CAP is to create a sustainable long-term suicide prevention plan that develops through a process of community engagement with individuals, families and communities. I reiterate that this is the question the member needed to ask before she — Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : I will be checking the dates, don’t you worry. This has happened since this matter was raised in this chamber by me. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon HELEN MORTON : The member is suggesting that the information provided to me by the agencies involved is incorrect. The member continues to astound me with her lack of sensitivity and tact in this area.
Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : I made contact with you about Eddie Dayeh and he lost his house. Hon HELEN MORTON : Just a minute! My staff are highly professional, very competent and very capable of providing that type of information sensitively. It would be appropriate for members to get that type of information before they make grandiose, sensational statements about people and the tragedies they are experiencing. In the case of the Nundle family, I am advised that the Goldfields mental health service of the WA Country Health Service was in contact with Mrs Nundle’s daughter Cheryl on 12 May and again on 13 May 2011. Cheryl was offered an appointment but that was declined at the time. The Nundle family from Esperance has been offered and accepted support from WA Country Health Service’s Esperance Community Mental Health unit, which has acted, where possible, as a bridge to services and has made contact with one elder from the family to provide information on the support that is available. Another elder from the community has visited the mental health service clinic and is encouraging family members to access the service if care is needed. Escare is a community-based organisation in Esperance that has been providing daily support to the family, including home visits, for some months prior to Cheryl being referred to the WA Country Health Service’s Esperance Community Mental Health facility. Centrecare has taken the lead in providing grief counselling to the family and continues to maintain contact with the family. I am advised that an Aboriginal health worker has made contact with the family. Bega Garnbirringu Health Service is sending an Aboriginal health worker to Esperance to meet the Nundle family to advise the family on the type of support it may need. The local police and Esperance District Hospital are aware of the situation and are being vigilant over the family members or others known to the family who may present to them with a lowered mood, grief reactions and suicidal ideations. Through the ongoing implementation of the WA suicide prevention strategy, a community action plan is being developed in Esperance. As I have mentioned previously, the community action plans are uniquely created and owned by each community to reflect their own culturally specific needs. The aim of the Esperance CAP is to create a sustainable long-term suicide prevention plan that develops through a process of community engagement with individuals, families and communities. I reiterate that this is the question the member needed to ask before she — Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : I will be checking the dates, don’t you worry. This has happened since this matter was raised in this chamber by me. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon HELEN MORTON : The member is suggesting that the information provided to me by the agencies involved is incorrect. The member continues to astound me with her lack of sensitivity and tact in this area.
Hon HELEN MORTON : Just a minute! My staff are highly professional, very competent and very capable of providing that type of information sensitively. It would be appropriate for members to get that type of information before they make grandiose, sensational statements about people and the tragedies they are experiencing. In the case of the Nundle family, I am advised that the Goldfields mental health service of the WA Country Health Service was in contact with Mrs Nundle’s daughter Cheryl on 12 May and again on 13 May 2011. Cheryl was offered an appointment but that was declined at the time. The Nundle family from Esperance has been offered and accepted support from WA Country Health Service’s Esperance Community Mental Health unit, which has acted, where possible, as a bridge to services and has made contact with one elder from the family to provide information on the support that is available. Another elder from the community has visited the mental health service clinic and is encouraging family members to access the service if care is needed. Escare is a community-based organisation in Esperance that has been providing daily support to the family, including home visits, for some months prior to Cheryl being referred to the WA Country Health Service’s Esperance Community Mental Health facility. Centrecare has taken the lead in providing grief counselling to the family and continues to maintain contact with the family. I am advised that an Aboriginal health worker has made contact with the family. Bega Garnbirringu Health Service is sending an Aboriginal health worker to Esperance to meet the Nundle family to advise the family on the type of support it may need. The local police and Esperance District Hospital are aware of the situation and are being vigilant over the family members or others known to the family who may present to them with a lowered mood, grief reactions and suicidal ideations. Through the ongoing implementation of the WA suicide prevention strategy, a community action plan is being developed in Esperance. As I have mentioned previously, the community action plans are uniquely created and owned by each community to reflect their own culturally specific needs. The aim of the Esperance CAP is to create a sustainable long-term suicide prevention plan that develops through a process of community engagement with individuals, families and communities. I reiterate that this is the question the member needed to ask before she — Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : I will be checking the dates, don’t you worry. This has happened since this matter was raised in this chamber by me. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon HELEN MORTON : The member is suggesting that the information provided to me by the agencies involved is incorrect. The member continues to astound me with her lack of sensitivity and tact in this area.
In the case of the Nundle family, I am advised that the Goldfields mental health service of the WA Country Health Service was in contact with Mrs Nundle’s daughter Cheryl on 12 May and again on 13 May 2011. Cheryl was offered an appointment but that was declined at the time. The Nundle family from Esperance has been offered and accepted support from WA Country Health Service’s Esperance Community Mental Health unit, which has acted, where possible, as a bridge to services and has made contact with one elder from the family to provide information on the support that is available. Another elder from the community has visited the mental health service clinic and is encouraging family members to access the service if care is needed. Escare is a community-based organisation in Esperance that has been providing daily support to the family, including home visits, for some months prior to Cheryl being referred to the WA Country Health Service’s Esperance Community Mental Health facility. Centrecare has taken the lead in providing grief counselling to the family and continues to maintain contact with the family. I am advised that an Aboriginal health worker has made contact with the family. Bega Garnbirringu Health Service is sending an Aboriginal health worker to Esperance to meet the Nundle family to advise the family on the type of support it may need. The local police and Esperance District Hospital are aware of the situation and are being vigilant over the family members or others known to the family who may present to them with a lowered mood, grief reactions and suicidal ideations. Through the ongoing implementation of the WA suicide prevention strategy, a community action plan is being developed in Esperance. As I have mentioned previously, the community action plans are uniquely created and owned by each community to reflect their own culturally specific needs. The aim of the Esperance CAP is to create a sustainable long-term suicide prevention plan that develops through a process of community engagement with individuals, families and communities. I reiterate that this is the question the member needed to ask before she — Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : I will be checking the dates, don’t you worry. This has happened since this matter was raised in this chamber by me. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon HELEN MORTON : The member is suggesting that the information provided to me by the agencies involved is incorrect. The member continues to astound me with her lack of sensitivity and tact in this area.
I reiterate that this is the question the member needed to ask before she — Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : I will be checking the dates, don’t you worry. This has happened since this matter was raised in this chamber by me. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon HELEN MORTON : The member is suggesting that the information provided to me by the agencies involved is incorrect. The member continues to astound me with her lack of sensitivity and tact in this area.
Hon Ljiljanna Ravlich : I will be checking the dates, don’t you worry. This has happened since this matter was raised in this chamber by me. The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon HELEN MORTON : The member is suggesting that the information provided to me by the agencies involved is incorrect. The member continues to astound me with her lack of sensitivity and tact in this area.
The PRESIDENT : Order! Hon HELEN MORTON : The member is suggesting that the information provided to me by the agencies involved is incorrect. The member continues to astound me with her lack of sensitivity and tact in this area.
Hon HELEN MORTON : The member is suggesting that the information provided to me by the agencies involved is incorrect. The member continues to astound me with her lack of sensitivity and tact in this area.
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