Twitter delivered an announcement this week from the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RNZAP) proudly stating it had appointed a ‘consumer and carer representative’ to its governing body. The Australians have the irritating habit of tethering consumers and carers with each other in the same way that the song proclaims, ‘love and marriage go together like horse and carriage’.  We all know ‘consumers’ and ‘carers’ are two distinct stakeholder groups whos...


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