Division Description Changes — Motions — Budget — 17th Jul 2014

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  • Motions — Budget
  • Motions - Budget - Mental health of young Australians

Description

  • <p class="speaker">Penny Wright</p>
  • <p>I seek leave to table a report that is referred to in the motion that I will move.</p>
  • <p>Leave granted.</p>
  • The majority voted in favour of a [motion](https://www.openaustralia.org.au/senate/?id=2014-07-17.51.1) introduced by SA Senator [Penny Wright](https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/people/senate/sa/penny_wright) (Greens), which means it passed. Motions like these don't make any legal changes on their own but are politically influential because they represent the will of the Senate.
  • ### Motion text
  • > *That the Senate—*
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  • > *(a) notes the findings of the Connetica Budget 2014 Policy Briefing Papers which outline:*
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  • >> *(i) the disproportionate burden the 2014 15 budget cuts will place on young people,*
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  • >> *(ii) the potential for an increase in suicides and mental ill-health among young Australians as a result of harsh budget measures, including changes to Newstart, increases to university fees, cutting the Tools for your Trade program, and ending support programs like Youth Connections, and*
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  • >> *(iii) that isolation, dislocation, loneliness, hopelessness and unemployment can increase anxiety, despair and depression;*
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  • > *(b) recognises that public policy has a direct impact on the mental health and wellbeing of the community; and*
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  • > *(c) urges the Government to reverse budget decisions which will adversely affect the mental health of young Australians.*
  • <p>I table the document Budget 2014 Policy Briefing Papers from ConNetica, and I move:</p>
  • <p class="italic">That the Senate&#8212;</p>
  • <p class="italic">(a) notes the findings of the Connetica Budget 2014 Policy Briefing Papers which outline:</p>
  • <p class="italic">(i) the disproportionate burden the 2014-15 budget cuts will place on young people,</p>
  • <p class="italic">(ii) the potential for an increase in suicides and mental ill-health among young Australians as a result of harsh budget measures, including changes to Newstart, increases to university fees, cutting the Tools for your Trade program, and ending support programs like Youth Connections, and</p>
  • <p class="italic">(iii) that isolation, dislocation, loneliness, hopelessness and unemployment can increase anxiety, despair and depression;</p>
  • <p class="italic">(b) recognises that public policy has a direct impact on the mental health and wellbeing of the community; and</p>
  • <p class="italic">(c) urges the Government to reverse budget decisions which will adversely affect the mental health of young Australians.</p>
  • <p class="speaker">Gavin Marshall</p>
  • <p>The question is that the motion be agreed to.</p>