The Melbourne grandmother is among hundreds to lose support for complex mental health issues due to the closure of the Care Finder program
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One pile for boxes, another for lamps. Then there’s the tower of yellowing newspapers, the top one dated 2003, alongside mounds of clothes, children’s toys, letters and bills that were paid years ago.
The stacks of objects littering Julie’s* home in Point Cook in Melbourne’s western suburbs are neat – there are just a lot of them.
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