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Former APY Lands mental health care staff sacked ahead of release of new model of care

Two long-serving remote mental health staff have been sacked by South Australian health bureaucrats, with a union saying the workers have been treated appallingly and despicably by management.

The pair had worked with at-risk children on the remote Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands for more than a decade before they were suddenly removed in August and September last year, dismaying locals and experts.

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