Firearm regulations around mental health challenging practitioners in rural areas

Sally Gall
Updated June 1 2018 - 11:58am, first published 11:35am
Firearm fear: Longreach agribusiness consultant and Outback Futures chairman, Peter Whip, outlining barriers to efficient mental health delivery at a forum in Longreach. Picture: Sally Cripps.
Firearm fear: Longreach agribusiness consultant and Outback Futures chairman, Peter Whip, outlining barriers to efficient mental health delivery at a forum in Longreach. Picture: Sally Cripps.

A regulation that requires people wishing to receive psychological counselling to relinquish their weapons licence and firearms is proving to be a harmful barrier to rural people seeking help, according to agencies working in western Queensland.

Sally Gall

Sally Gall

Senior journalist - Queensland Country Life/North Queensland Register

Based at Blackall, CW Qld, where I've raised a family, run Merino sheep and beef cattle, and helped develop a region - its history, tourism, education and communications. Get in touch at 0427 575 955 if you've got a story idea for me.

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