Federal Budget Overviews
2025 Federal Budget Overview
25 March 2025
Australia is facing enormous pressures on our collective mental health and wellbeing. But the 2025-26 Federal Budget does very little to address this, with mental health left behind in this pre-electi…
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2023 Federal Budget Summary
10 May 2023
OverviewMental Health Australia welcomes the Albanese Government’s focus on supporting the community to meet spiraling cost of living expenses and increasing the base rate for Job Seeker payments. Our…
Read more2022 Federal Budget Summary
1 April 2022
In the 2021 Federal Budget, the Australian Government provided a welcome investment of $2.3 billion acknowledging this was but the first instalment required to address the recommendations of the once …
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11 May 2021
2021 Federal Budget SummaryThe Australian Government has provided a welcome $2.3 billion down payment on its response to the recommendations made by the Productivity Commission’s Inquiry in Menta…
Read more2020 Federal Budget Summary
6 October 2020
2020 Federal Budget Summary As has been widely reported, tonight’s 2020 Federal Budget is extremely important, occurring at a time of international and national financial instability, driven by t…
Read more2019 Federal Budget Summary
3 April 2020
2019 Federal Budget SummaryMental Health Australia welcomes initiatives announced in the 2019 Federal Budget, handed down on 2 April 2019. This Budget will see $736.6 million for mental health and sui…
Read more2018-19 Federal Budget Summary
8 May 2018
2018-19 Federal Budget - Summary Mental Health Australia welcomed measures announced in the 2018-19 Budget, handed down on 8 May 2018. This Budget will see new investments of $338 million for the ment…
Read more2017 Budget Summary - Closing critical gaps in mental health
10 May 2017
The 2017-18 Federal Budget has been welcomed by Mental Health Australia, as it starts to address one of mental health’s most critical issues – gaps in psychosocial support services. Tonight, Treasurer…
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9 May 2017
This document details some of the key measures in the 2017-18 Federal Budget that are likely to be of interest to mental health stakeholders. See Mental Health Australia’s press release welcoming the Budget initiatives on mental health.
Read moreElection 2016
15 December 2016
During this Federal election campaign, Mental Health Australia is asking party leaders to make mental health a priority. Read more about our campaign below.
Read more2016 Federal Budget - Mental Health Australia Summary
3 May 2016
Read our summary of the mental health-related measures in the 2016-17 Federal Budget
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