$200 million for a new schools\u2019 mental health fund.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nThe measures will be funded by a new mental health and wellbeing levy.<\/p>\n
Recommended by the Royal Commission into Victoria’s Mental Health System and to start in 2022, the levy will impose a 0.5 per cent payroll tax on wages paid in Victoria by businesses with national payrolls over $10 million a year and 1 per cent on businesses with national payrolls over $100 million.<\/p>\n
Orygen executive director Professor Patrick McGorry said the budget was \u201conce in a generation reform\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cNot only is the mental wellbeing of the state\u2019s young people at the heart of this budget, but the $3.8 billion mental health package as a whole is hugely significant for all Victorians,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cOrygen looks forward to seeing the government follow through on this commitment to fix what it has repeatedly acknowledged as a broken system.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mental Health Victoria (MHV), the independent peak body for mental health, welcomed the $3.8 billion commitment.<\/p>\n
MHV chief executive officer Angus Clelland said the funding was the single biggest investment in mental health of any government ever in Australia, and was $1.5 billion more than the Coalition\u2019s record $2.3 billion spend on mental health in the Federal Budget.<\/p>\n
\u201cToday\u2019s budget represents the culmination of more than two decades of advocacy efforts from individuals, carers, families, peak bodies, and mental health professionals from across\u00a0 Victoria.\u201d<\/p>\n
Victoria\u2019s three leading community managed mental health providers – Mind Australia, Neami National and Wellways Australia – are also praising the budget.<\/p>\n
Wellways Australia chief executive officer Laura Collister commended Labor for delivering a budget that responded to the voices of lived experience.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo have the Victorian Government\u2019s commitment to implementing all 65 recommendations from the Royal Commission reinforced in the Budget papers provides much-needed clarity
\nfor the community managed mental health sector.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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