28145 (2025). Ingrid Leary to the Minister for Mental Health

28145 (2025). Ingrid Leary to the Minister for Mental Health: How will the reduction in the minimum funding limit from $250,000 to $100,000 for the Mental Health and Addiction Community Sector Innovation Fund enhance the capacity of NGOs to deliver timely mental health support?

Hon Matt Doocey: I am advised that the minimum matched funding threshold has been lowered from $250,000 to $100,000 per annum per initiative to increase opportunities for smaller organisations to participate in the Innovation Fund. This creates an opportunity for a broader range of solutions to be considered, helping to strengthen the sector’s ability to deliver timely mental health support, while still ensuring that funded programmes and initiatives are of sufficient scale and impact to align with the original intent of the Innovation Fund.