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18-02-2013, 03:56 PM
TOP-TIER executives are ignoring or denying the mental illness of their staff, the head of Australia's biggest mental health charity says. Mental illness costs the economy more than $6.5 billion every year, but the executive director of SANE Australia, Jack Heath, said too many company heads were not serious about addressing it.

''People in the boardrooms of major Australian companies, who are often a bit older, are more reluctant to acknowledge mental health as an issue that needs to be addressed,'' he said.

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