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  "id": 11406358,
  "title": "Mental health watchdog secretly puts a line through vital investigations",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/02/mental-health-watchdog-secretly-puts-a-line-through-vital-11406358",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-10-02T09:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Age",
    "slug": "the-age",
    "url": "https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/mental-health-watchdog-secretly-puts-a-line-through-vital-investigations-20261002-p6109d.html?ref=rss"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "As it was starved of funds, the organisation responsible for overseeing the state’s mental health system simply stopped investigating certain things.",
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      {
        "outlet": "The Sydney Morning Herald",
        "title": "Mental health watchdog secretly puts a line through vital investigations",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/02/mental-health-watchdog-secretly-puts-a-line-through-vital",
        "published": "2026-10-02T09:00:00.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}