Lifeline to trial Australian-first text service

By Angela Thompson
Updated February 12 2017 - 8:56am, first published 8:30am
''You can be on a bus and text a crisis service, and the person next to you wouldn’t even know.''
''You can be on a bus and text a crisis service, and the person next to you wouldn’t even know.''

An Australia-first service that will make crisis support available via text message has the potential to reach where traditional methods have not, the region’s Lifeline chief says. 

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