Elections and budget

The pre-budget submission focuses on recommendations across three themes: strong and sustained prevention and early intervention investment for children, youth and families most in need; housing and homelessness and; COVID-19 recovery.

Our pre-budget submission focuses on the need for sufficient investment in the mental health system to ensure coverage for everyone’s level of need in the community, addressing housing affordability for those most vulnerable, and the need for adequate funding for evidence-based programs for vulnerable young people.

Mission Australia Pre-budget submission 2016 - 2017

Our Pre-budget Submission focused on increasing investment to address homelessness, increasing income support payment base rate permanently, strengthening communities, young people’s mental health and the need to support community services by incorporating the existing rate of Equal Remuneration Order supplementation to funding contracts.

The supplementary submission highlighted a number of concerns including the need to increase social and affordable housing through a stimulus package, permanently increase the base rate of social security payments by $185 a week and supports for people experiencing domestic and family violence.