Elections and budget

Mission Australia Pre-budget submission 2016 - 2017

Mission Australia's election priorities for 2016.

Mission Australia’s pre-budget submission focuses on the need for significant progress on homelessness and affordable housing, the need for adequate funding for evidence-based programs that have a positive impact on people’s lives and the imperative that the most vulnerable Australians not bear the brunt of budget savings measures.

Mission Australia’s pre-budget submission focuses on the need for significant progress on homelessness and affordable housing and the need for adequate funding for evidence-based programs that have a positive impact on people’s lives and support them on their journey to independence. This includes investment in child safety and youth programs, ensuring adequate mental health and drug and alcohol supports and strengthening communities of entrenched and persistent disadvantage.

The recommendations in our pre-budget submission are designed to ensure that the 2018-19 budget measures work to reduce homelessness and strengthen communities across Australia including through the supply of affordable housing, addressing gaps in services delivery, investing in evidence-based programs and supporting community development.

Mission Australia’s pre-budget submission focuses on the need for significant progress on homelessness and affordable housing and the need for adequate funding for evidence-based programs that have a positive impact on people’s lives and support them on their journey to independence. This includes investment in child safety and youth programs, ensuring adequate mental health and drug and alcohol supports and strengthening communities of entrenched and persistent disadvantage. 

Mission Australia’s pre-budget submission focuses on the need for significant progress on homelessness and affordable housing, income support, employment and youth transitions.

Mission Australia’s pre-budget submission to the Tasmanian government speaks to the need for investment in housing and homelessness services, strengthening communities, child safety and youth programs, combatting the harms of gambling and supporting people experiencing mental illness.

Mission Australia’s pre-budget submission focuses on the need for significant progress on homelessness and affordable housing, income support, employment, youth transitions, supporting people with mental illness and strengthening communities.

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.

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.

Mission Australia’s pre-budget submission focuses on the need for significant progress on homelessness and affordable housing and the need for adequate funding for evidence-based programs that have a positive impact on people’s lives and support them on their journey to independence.

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.

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 submission focuses on Federal Government measures to prevent homelessness, invest in social and affordable housing, support a safe and sustainable aged care sector, deliver adequate income supports, address locational disadvantage, provide alcohol and other drug (AOD) services, and support young people to meaningfully engage in public matters that interest and affect them.

Ahead of the 2022 Federal election, we need leaders who will take urgent action to tend to immediate needs as well as safeguard our communities against future crises. We have outlined our key policy recommendations across seven priority areas including: housing and homelessness; aged care; income support; strengthening communities; support for young Australians, Self Determination for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples; and climate change.

Our pre-budget submission focuses on two of the key areas identified for community consultation:
• Opportunities to improve services that are directed towards vulnerable people; and
• Improvements to Government services and processes.

Our submission makes recommendations on income support payments, homelessness and social and affordable housing, place-based approaches to strengthening communities, and investing in the community sector.

Our NSW Election Platform focusses on the following priority areas: strong and sustained prevention and early intervention investment for children, youth and families most in need; housing and homelessness; improved disaster recovery; and a fairer NSW. 

This submission outlines Mission Australia’s priority asks for consideration in the 2023/24 NSW Budget, including housing and homelessness, prevention and early intervention for children and families, place-based approaches, addressing cost-of-living pressures, investment in the community sector, and improved disaster recovery.