Eating disorders have the highest mortality rate of any mental illness, but there are many myths and misconceptions about them. Whether it's anorexia nervosa, bulimia, binge eating disorder, pica or avoidant or restrictive disorders, or any other range of conditions, they are serious health issues affecting people of all ages and genders.

Eating disorders spiked during the pandemic and remain high, and the minister has rightly described it as a crisis. As our new Parliamentary Friends of Eating Disorder Awareness launches this week, co-chaired with my parliamentary colleagues the member for Goldstein and the member for Fisher, I acknowledge the work by the previous government in this space. I urge the states to create the extra hospital beds they've been funded to, and I welc