Patrick McGorry and peak mental health group call on Malcolm Turnbull to abandon marriage plebiscite

By Michael Koziol and James Massola
Updated October 4 2016 - 6:09pm, first published 12:15am
Mental health expert and former Australian of the Year Professor Patrick McGorr. Photo: Eddie Jim
Mental health expert and former Australian of the Year Professor Patrick McGorr. Photo: Eddie Jim
The LGBTI community is largely opposed to the Turnbull government's policy of holding a plebiscite. Photo: Joe Armao
The LGBTI community is largely opposed to the Turnbull government's policy of holding a plebiscite. Photo: Joe Armao

Australia's most prominent mental health advocate Patrick McGorry and the nation's peak mental health group have called for the same-sex marriage plebiscite to be dumped because of the significant harm it would do to gay and lesbian Australians.

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