00:00Jade Young's murder has broken families in two states.
00:06She was a loved wife, a most loved mother of two young girls.
00:10She was our treasured daughter and PJ's beloved JJ, Chinese for big sister.
00:16Now a plea from her mother.
00:18I beg you, as the voice of three shattered households, please actually do something about
00:24the discrepancies, the disparities, the inconsistencies.
00:28Elizabeth Young lives in New South Wales and says support came within hours of Jade's death.
00:33But she says it was six weeks before her son, PJ, in Tasmania could speak to a psychologist.
00:39Finding help for her grandchildren, she says, was even harder.
00:42They were told there was one child psychologist but the books were closed.
00:46The Tasmanian mental health hotline they were told to use rang out.
00:51The Tasmanian government says it's employing more mental health workers than ever before.
00:56I do think that there are gaps between Commonwealth systems and state systems.
01:00I think that when we're looking at the increasing distress in society, that we need a whole
01:04of government approach.
01:06Next month, mental health ministers from every state and territory will meet with the Commonwealth
01:10to discuss joint action on mental health reform, including what can be done to reduce the likelihood
01:15of events like Bondi.
01:17The attacker was a Queenslander who'd been diagnosed with schizophrenia more than 20
01:22years earlier.
01:23Clinicians want to be able to offer services to patients in a timely manner, in times of
01:29crisis, but also to prevent crises from happening.
01:33We can get in early and if we can address the needs as they're becoming more complex,
01:37then we have a chance of minimising the sorts of tragedies that we have seen in Bondi Junction.
01:43A tragedy that's left a long trail of trauma.
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