The Federal Government has provided $18.2m funding over three years to suicide prevention service Lifeline to ensure that calls to the service from mobile phones will be free of charge from 1 July under an agreement made between the three major phone carriers. The announcement was made jointly by the minister for mental health and ageing, Mark Butler, and communications minister, senator Stephen Conroy. Butler said: "I would like to thank all three major mobile phone carriers for agreeing to abolish call charges from mobile phones to Lifeline's national crisis line (13 11 14). This arrangement will also be passed through to the downstream resellers of the three carriers' mobile services.He added: "Each vear more than 114.000 calls to
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