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Gillard’s Trump Twitter claim leaves mental health lobby beyond blue

6 July 2017

2:06 PM

6 July 2017

2:06 PM

Newly appointed Beyond Blue chair Julia Gillard is already embroiled in controversy.

Discussing Donald Trump’s Twitter habits on ABC’s Lateline, Gillard made the claim that, due to the President’s behaviour on social media, a diagnosis of mental illness would “be in the dialogue”. Her claim was prefaced with a caution that she did not wish to see mental illness “being thrown around as an insult”.

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