Thursday, 16 October 2025

 Nick McGOWAN (North-Eastern Metropolitan) (12:46): (1883) What I am excited to talk about today, or in fact ask the Minister for Mental Health about because this is a constituency question, is mental health locals. I was very pleased to hear the minister talk a short time ago about that very subject. I am also very excited that in July of this year the government finally, after much lobbying and encouragement – we like to encourage those who do good things. Well, eventually, a couple of years later and a couple of years after it was promised, we got our mental health local. It will be in Maroondah. What we do not know yet is where it will be in Maroondah. So my question on behalf of my constituents in the electorate of Ringwood is all about where our mental health local will be in Ringwood. It is a critical service. It brings together all those kinds of services we all want and need for our community to help with suicide prevention and with assistance to our youth. I look forward to opening it with the minister as soon as we can in December. I cannot wait to do that, and I welcome her to Ringwood.