Media releases

2023-24 State Budget: A step towards recovery for young people

• The 2023-24 state budget, released in a challenging economic environment, provides relief that young Victorians experiencing disadvantage and marginalisation now will not also wear the costs of COVID debt in the long term.

• Media releases
• Government and youth policy
• Rural and regional
• Budget

Statement: Federal Budget 2023-24 provides some relief, still leaves many young people out in the cold

• The government's investments are a first step, but they still leave many young people below the poverty line.

• Media releases
• Housing and homelessness
• Government and youth policy
• Youth sector
• Rural and regional
• Budget

2022-23 Victorian Budget response: More investment needed in youth sector for COVID-19 recovery

• Media releases
• Government and youth policy
• Budget

2021-22 State Budget makes historic investment in youth mental health for a generation slammed by bushfires and COVID-19

• Media releases
• Environment + Climate Change
• Rural and regional
• Mental health and wellbeing
• Education, training and employment
• Media releases
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
• Youth justice
• Family violence
• COVID-19
• Government and youth policy
• Budget

2021-22 Federal Budget leaves young people out of COVID-19 recovery

• Government and youth policy
• Mental health and wellbeing
• Housing and homelessness
• Media releases
• Youth sector
• COVID-19
• Budget

YACVic welcomes state budget’s investment in rural and regional young people and at-risk young people

• Media releases
• Government and youth policy
• Rural and regional
• Budget

Federal budget 2019 – where are the young people?

• Media releases
• Disability
• Rural and regional
• Mental health and wellbeing
• Education, training and employment
• Government and youth policy
• Budget

YACVic welcomes state budget's major investment in education and training

• Media releases
• Government and youth policy
• Budget