Queensland's Opposition Leader has promised to set up two youth mental health facilities if it wins office. The declaration comes just hours before the two candidates face off in their first televised debate.
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00:00I'm here at Emu Park near Rockhampton in central Queensland, where state LNP leader David Christopher
00:08Foley has made a $50 million investment in Step Up, Step Down mental health treatment
00:14facilities for young people.
00:16So what is a Step Up, Step Down facility?
00:18Well, it's for people at the start and end of their mental health journeys, so they can
00:22step up into a clinic to receive treatment, or if they received acute care in a hospital,
00:27they can step down as a transition.
00:30There'll be one facility here in Rockhampton, with the second to be announced, and they'll
00:34each have six beds.
00:35Now we're here in the electorate of Keppel, which is held by Labor MP Brittany Lauger.
00:41It's a marginal regional seat, and one of the regional seats the LNP will be looking
00:45to take if it wants to oust Labor.