When going through the federal budget announcements a few weeks back, I came across the pledge to create a new low-intensity digital mental health service.

It disturbed me.

In part it was because the dollars attached are serious in a sector starved of the necessary resources to provide the care needed to those whose lives are falling apart.

The budget was some $588 million — the sort of money currently being thrown into the sinkhole of the so-called urgent care Medicare clinics.