2026-27 Federal Budget: MIFA Statement

The 2026–27 Federal Budget includes important investments across mental health and suicide prevention, including extending the National Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Agreement, expanding 13YARN, and funding community responses to trauma. MIFA welcomes these commitments and recognises the importance of maintaining existing supports.

However, the Budget does not provide a meaningful response for the estimated 500,000 Australians living with moderate to high mental health support needs outside the NDIS, many of whom continue to go without adequate psychosocial supports.

With negotiations for Foundational Supports and the next National Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Agreement now underway, MIFA is calling for psychosocial supports to be placed at the centre of reform — designed and funded in line with real community need and shaped alongside people with lived experience, families, carers, and service organisations.

Read the full statement from Mental Illness Fellowship of Australia CEO James Maskey on the 2026–27 Federal Budget.