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This chapter illustrates the approaches used to reduce stigma against people affected by mental illness in Australia. The work of beyondblue, the National Depression and Anxiety Initiative, and SANE Australia, the National Mental Health Organisation, will demonstrate how the voice of people with lived experience of mental illness has informed our approach. It will show how the learnings to be found in the scientific literature, the grey literature, the unpublished market research and the experiences of our international colleagues have informed our efforts. Finally, this chapter will illustrate what we know about the impact of this work, with the goal of improving the lives of people with mental illness, their families, friends and carers.
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beyondblue and SANE Australia would like to acknowledge the work of Judy Finn and Paul Morgan in the preparation of this chapter.
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Harman, G., Heath, J. (2017). Australian Country Perspective: The Work of beyondblue and SANE Australia. In: Gaebel, W., Rössler, W., Sartorius, N. (eds) The Stigma of Mental Illness - End of the Story?. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27839-1_16
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