SANE Community Feedback on the Federal Budget - May 2024

[RachSANECEO]

Hi SANE Community 

We’ve had a flurry of contact today from people sharing their views with us via email on the funding allocation for mental health care and support in the 24-25 Commonwealth Budget.

We’d love to hear YOUR thoughts on the initiatives that have been announced and what you think is missing. We’ll be using your feedback to craft our response to government and advocate for what really matters to our community.

Please click here: https://forms.office.com/r/0pkhLssXRp to complete this very short survey. You can also add your thoughts in the thread below.

An overview of what was included can be found here Budget 2024–⁠25: Cheaper medicines, new Medicare Urgent Care Clinics and more free mental health ser...

Thanks for adding your voice to this important conversation.

Rachel

SANE CEO

Survey questions:

1. Were you satisfied with the mental health measures announced in the 24-25 budget? (yes, no, maybe)
2. Do you think these changes will improve your access to mental health care and support (yes, no, maybe)
3. What announcements were you pleased about? <open text>
4. What was missing? <open text>
5. postcode <open text>
6. age bracket (18-25, 25-35, 35-50, 50+)
7. lived experience identification
8. gender
9. Aboriginal and / or Torres Strait Islander identification

This survey will be open until 6:00pm 24 May 2024.

[tyme]

@Krishna @greenpea and other carers, please see the above message if you are interested in having your say about the Federal Budget May 2024

[Wildandfree]

Not going to lie, this budget made me quite cross. We've been waiting for meaningful changes to the system since they started 'reforming' it over a year ago but ended up with $160m going towards something which sounds essentially the same as what is already available through SANE and other orgs and the promise of 61 centres with 'walk in' access to psychiatry and psychology. Right. So even though there's a huge lack of these specialties, they're going to find a bunch of them willing to give up their private practices to spend time in a Medicare-funded clinic. Good luck with that!