Media releases

2025-26 Federal Budget summary: what does the budget mean for young people?

• Budget
• Rural and regional
• Housing and homelessness
• Government and youth policy
• Media releases
• Disability
• Mental health and wellbeing
• NDIS
• Education, training and employment
• Youth sector
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
• Youth justice
• Health

Raising the age to 12 doesn't go far enough

• While a step in the right direction, this falls short of what young people need, and is a missed opportunity to break a preventable cycle of trauma and harm.

• Media releases
• Government and youth policy
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
• Youth justice
• Disability

Victorian Government must fully commit to diverting children from prison and raise the age to 14

• Media releases
• Disability
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
• Youth justice
• Child protection

Congratulations to YDAS Staff appointed to Victorian Disability Advisory Council

• Disability
• Media releases

Coronavirus supplement welcome but students and disabled young people shouldn’t miss out

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

Disabled young people in Victoria win with funding to become leaders

• Disability
• Media releases
• Youth participation
• Youth sector

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

YDAS condemns bullying of young people with disability

• Media releases
• Disability
• Mental health and wellbeing