The Victorian government has called in the chief psychiatrist for an urgent review of the mental health system after a man just released from a psychiatric ward threatened to blow up a plane over Melbourne.
Mental Health Minister Martin Foley on Friday said he asked the chief psychiatrist to provide him with an urgent report.
"Clearly a situation where a foreign national is released from our care and within a day is involved in a major security incident is a pretty big red flag," Mr Foley told reporters in Melbourne on Friday.
"I've asked the chief psychiatrist to intervene with Monash Health to provide me with an independent oversight of what the circumstances were around this case."
He said he was hopeful he would have an initial report "in a week or a matter of weeks" to see what, if anything, needed to be done differently so the situation can't happen again.
Sri Lankan man Manodh Marks, 25, had only been released from psychiatric care from the Monash Medical Centre on Wednesday and immediately went and bought a plane ticket for a flight that night, police said on Thursday.
Marks, 25 who has been living in the Melbourne suburb of Dandenong on a student visa, is accused of threatening to blow up the plane.
He was charged with endangering the safety of an aircraft and making false threats.
Marks was remanded in custody after his case was mentioned in the Melbourne Magistrates' Court on Thursday.
He did not appear in the court and his matter will return on August 24.
