2025 Federal Budget Overview
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-election budget pitch.
The Budget includes some piecemeal mental health investments, including $46 million to continue digital mental health services, but falls far too short of the systemic reform needed.
As outlined in Mental Health Australia’s Pre-Budget Submission, we need urgent action to address immediate service and workforce gaps, together with longer-term commitments to both prevent mental ill-health and create a world-class system of mental health supports. It is extremely disappointing to see no action in this Budget on these key urgent recommendations.
There are welcome measures in this Budget to improve affordable access to primary health care, however, we need further changes to ensure access to supports beyond the GP office.
Mental Health Australia welcomes measures in this Budget to provide cost of living relief, and continues to call on the Government to work with the mental health sector to introduce specific measures to improve equity and affordability of access to mental health supports.
Further detail can be found in the Summary below.
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