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2025-26 Budget: YACVic welcomes stability for youth services, urges stronger action on housing

  • YACVic’s response to the 2025–26 Victorian State Budget, including key wins, gaps, and what it means for young people across Victoria.
  • Media releases
  • Housing and homelessness
  • Youth sector
  • Health
  • Budget
  • Rural and regional

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

Pill testing trial in Victoria is drug harm reduction in action

  • Media releases
  • Government and youth policy
  • Health
  • Alcohol & other drugs
  • Rural and regional

2024-25 Victorian Budget: Steps forward on misogyny, health; lagging on housing, mental health

  • In a challenging economic environment, the 2024-25 Victorian Budget mostly maintains youth programs and invests in health, but falls short on crucial support for housing and mental health.
  • Media releases
  • Housing and homelessness
  • Youth sector
  • Health
  • Budget
  • Rural and regional

Victoria’s legal system must help, not harm, children and Aboriginal people

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

‘Yeah Nah’: Young people to lead consent education across Victoria

  • Media releases
  • Rural and regional
  • Youth participation
  • Health