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Health minister grilled on Labor's $1bn mental health package

The health minister, Mark Butler, says Labor will not technically be building new mental health centres under its $1bn mental health promise.

We're not building them. This is to fund the operations of these centres. Generally, they will rent existing premises.

They won't be brand-new buildings. What we will do, say, in a particular area of say, north Brisbane or regional Queensland - we say we want to establish - let's use the word establish other than build.

Head to Health - no one knew what it was, okay?

We did research. We basically, looked at how the existing services, which had started under the former government, were performing.