{"id":142156,"date":"2024-10-21T10:34:05","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T00:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=142156"},"modified":"2024-10-21T10:34:06","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T00:34:06","slug":"orygen-director-defends-controversial-daniel-andrews-appointment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=142156","title":{"rendered":"Orygen director defends controversial Daniel Andrews appointment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The director of a youth mental health organisation has defended the call to appoint Daniel Andrews as its new chairman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Orygen has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=141341\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Dan Andrews appointed chair of youth mental health service\">announced in recent days that Mr Andrews would take up a three-year term in the role<\/a>, a decision which caused widespread debate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Orygen executive director Patrick McGorry told Tom Elliott that the former premier had a good track record dealing with mental health, despite the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=62915\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Daniel Andrews said he would encourage authorities to drag people from their homes\">divisive lockdowns which Victoria endured under his leadership<\/a> during the COVID years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Click PLAY to hear Patrick McGorry\u2019s full interview on 3AW<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-omny-studio wp-block-embed-omny-studio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"Orygen director adamant new chair Daniel Andrews has done a &#039;tremendous amount&#039; for mental health\" src=\"https:\/\/omny.fm\/shows\/3aw-mornings\/orygen-director-adamant-new-chair-daniel-andrews-h\/embed#?secret=c5wMBqSWr8\" data-secret=\"c5wMBqSWr8\" width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAs a political leader he has done a tremendous amount for mental health, including during the pandemic,\u201d he said on&nbsp;<em>3AW Mornings<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t have any problems with that within the Orygen board, all of our staff are very happy about this appointment.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tom Elliott earlier said he was shocked by Mr Andrews\u2019 appointment to the role,&nbsp; calling for those who made the decision to \u201chave a look in the mirror\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Daniel Andrews is involved in a court case over alleged corruption in relation to an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=141379\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"BIKE BOY SCANDAL COURT CASE UPDATE\">accident involving himself and his wife Catherine Andrews and a teenage boy hear Sorrento<\/a> in recent years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Click PLAY to hear Tom Elliott\u2019s full editorial on Daniel Andrews\u2019 new job&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-omny-studio wp-block-embed-omny-studio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"Daniel Andrews&#039; new job leaves Tom Elliott in disbelief\" src=\"https:\/\/omny.fm\/shows\/3aw-mornings\/daniel-andrews-new-job-leaves-tom-elliott-in-disbe\/embed#?secret=pf9vXOPOhF\" data-secret=\"pf9vXOPOhF\" width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The director of a youth mental health organisation has defended the call to appoint Daniel Andrews as its new chairman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":142157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[273,999,35],"tags":[8054,10189,14030,14031,11298],"class_list":["post-142156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-australia-politics","category-breaking-news","tag-3aw","tag-daniel-andrews","tag-orygen-healthcare","tag-patrick-mcgorry","tag-tom-elliott"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142158,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142156\/revisions\/142158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/142157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}