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The National Mental Health Consumer Alliance has launched Australia’s only national Human Rights Survey designed by and for people with lived experience of mental health challenges. They want to hear how your human rights were upheld — or breached—in 2025. Whether in mental health, justice, health, or other systems, your story helps us track where Australia is meeting its international obligations under the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD). Your responses are completely anonymous and will be analysed by the lived-experience research group ACACIA. The results will shape national advocacy to make sure human rights are real for all mental health consumers. Take the survey now — closes 31 December 2025.

Recovery College Tasmania are running sessions in the North and North west! The Recovery College is offering a range of free courses designed to support mental health, wellbeing and personal recovery in our community. Join us to learn about topics such as Living with Anxiety Exploring Possibilities with Bipolar Health Bodies & Minds Living with Depression Understanding Schizophrenia Self-care gratitude & hope and more. Whether you're experiencing mental health challenges, supporting someone who is, or have a passion for mental health education everyone is welcome to learn with us. These sessions offer tools and strategies to support yourself and those around you and being held in Devonport, Burnie and Launceston.

Discrimination is costing lives. Every day, people living with mental health conditions are dying from preventable physical illnesses with 46 lives lost daily, each one a tragedy that could have been avoided. On average people living with mental health challenges die 11 years earlier than the general population. Your signature is a powerful act of support. It amplifies our message, strengthens our collective voice, and pushes for the change we so urgently need. The more voices we gather, the harder we are to ignore. This is your chance to make a difference.

Learn about the formation of the National Mental Health Consumer Alliance - the national peak body representing the lived experience voice in mental health reform, of which MHLET is a proud member. The National Mental Health Consumer Alliance was officially recognised in 2024 as the national peak body representing people with lived experience of mental ill-health. The Alliance brings together state and territory consumer peaks - including MHLET - to strengthen the lived experience voice across all levels of mental health reform in Australia.

Don’t miss the opportunity to attend the largest rural health event in Australia. This is the only conference that brings together people from across the country and across all disciplines – everyone with an interest in rural health will be there!

In August this year, the Alliance made a submission to Australia’s Fourth Universal Periodic Review, calling on the Government to: ✅ End involuntary treatment and restrictive practices in all settings ✅ Commit to a National Human Rights Act ✅ Ensure OPCAT compliance across every jurisdiction ✅ Revoke interpretative declarations that allow breaches of the UN CRPD. For too long, people with mental health challenges have faced coercion, restraint, and discrimination. Our submission is clear: it’s time for Australia to uphold its international human rights obligations and build a system that protects dignity, choice, and justice.

90-minute webinar featuring leaders from the mental health consumer movement, live Q&A and a look our newly commissioned artwork by lived experience artist Lissy Elliott. Join the National Mental Health Consumer Alliance for the launch of our first Strategic Plan, Reimagining Mental Health — a bold, consumer-led roadmap for national mental health reform. This marks a defining moment in the Australian mental health consumer movement. For over six decades, people with lived experience have led courageous advocacy, transformed public discourse, and laid the foundations for more just, compassionate, and person-led systems. In this 90-minute webinar, you’ll hear from the leaders of this movement as we reflect on the history of consumer activism, celebrate hard-won reforms, and name the barriers that remain. We’ll explore the current policy landscape, our push for a Human Rights Act, and our vision for a future where every person with mental health challenges determines their own needs and wants. There will be a live Q&A and you will hear about opportunities to get involved as a consumer representative or how to stand in allyship with mental health consumers. Whether you’re a consumer, ally, policymaker, peer worker, or sector leader — this event is your invitation to be part of a growing national movement for change.

Navigating My Way is a set of written, visual and video resources that have been developed through a co-design process centering lived experience. This project was funded by the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission, and was developed by VMIAC, the peak body for mental health consumers in Victoria. ​ This project is designed to support NDIS participants with psychosocial disabilities in growing their knowledge of their rights when working with service providers. The resources aim to build skills and confidence in self-advocacy, including how to communicate their needs, provide feedback and make complaints. ​ Navigating My Way also aims to empower service providers and support worker to better understand participants with a psychosocial disability, and to create a better complaints culture. Service-provider specific resources are available as part of the project.