Budget 2025-26: information of relevance to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and wellbeing
Current topicThe Honourable Dr Jim Chalmers MP Treasurer, delivered his fourth Australian Government Budget on Tuesday evening, 25 March 2025.
The following links provide information on the Budget and its implications for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and wellbeing.
Australian Government Budget details:
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- View website: Australian Government Budget 2025-26
- View: Budget 2025-26 – Building Australia’s future
- Broadening opportunity and increasing equality, Investing in First Nations communities
- View: Australian Government Budget 2025-26 Paper 3, Federal financial relations, Part 2: Payments for specific purposes: Health
- View: Australian Government Budget 2025-26, Portfolio budget statements: Health and Aged Care Portfolio
- View: Australian Government Budget 2025-26, Portfolio Budget Statements: Social Services Portfolio
Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet
More detailed information on various components of Indigenous expenditure is available from the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet.
Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet
For information about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health:
The Overview of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health status 2024 provides information about: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander populations; the context of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health; various measures of population health status; selected health conditions; and health risk factors.
Further information:
- View media release: Some good news for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health – National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (NACCHO)
- View media release: Peak Body Backs Budget Measures in Early Childhood Education and Care – SNAICC – National Voice for our Children
- View news: Mixed reactions on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health – Croakey Health Media
- View news: Economic prosperity, Closing the Gap headline quiet federal budget for First Nations Australians – National Indigenous Times
- View news: Budget 2025-26: Delivering better outcomes for First Nations people – National Indigenous Australians Agency
- View news: Federal Budget sets the stage for election commitments on rural healthcare – Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM)