Call Mental Health Triage on
1800 629 354
(free call except from mobiles or public phones) or
6205 1065
For a poison emergency in Australia call
13 11 26
The Drug and Alcohol Help Line is available 24-hours, 7 days a week on
5124 9977
For after hours urgent public health matters including environmental health, radiation safety, food poisoning and communicable disease management phone:
02 5124 9700
Emergency help
during flood or storms
In the ACT, mothers born in Sub-Saharan Africa (42.1%) and ‘Other Oceania and Antarctica’ (43.1%) had higher rates of caesarean sections than Australian born mothers (35.7%) in 2019-21.