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

2024 National Sorry Day statement

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

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

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

The Victorian Government must commit to raising the age of criminal responsibility in Victoria to 14 years old, with no carve outs.

• 12-year-olds belong at school, not behind bars.

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

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

Youth advocates reject proposed new laws expanding PSOs into shopping centres and other public spaces

• Media releases
• Youth justice