Labor MP Josh Burns breaks ranks and calls for reversal on plans to cut subsidised psychological visits

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Under pressure from its own backbench to reverse a decision to halve subsidies for people seeing psychologists, the former government temporarily lifted subsidised visits from 10 to 20 at the height of the pandemic. But new Health Minister Mark Butler says that will revert to 10 next month, that's prompted a revolt from Labor MP Josh Burns, who wants the decision reversed.