Media releases Archives - Jesuit Social Services

State Budget a missed opportunity to focus on prevention and early intervention
- 20 May 2025
The Victorian Government’s 2025-26 State Budget, handed down today, includes some positive investments to support the community to address current cost-of-living challenges. But, with well over half a billion dollars being invested into expanding the state’s prison system, it is ultimately a missed opportunity to invest more into prevention and early intervention to support stronger…
Expanding prison capacity is money spent at wrong end of the system
- 13 May 2025
A $727 million expansion of Victoria’s prison capacity, announced ahead of the 2025/26 State Budget, is money spent at the wrong end of the system and won’t do anything to prevent crime in the long run, says Jesuit Social Services.
Federal Government has a historic opportunity to improve outcomes for those most in need
- 6 May 2025
Jesuit Social Services congratulates the Albanese Government on its re-election, and says the Federal Government has a significant opportunity to commit to bold policies and investments that give all Australians, particularly children, young people and those on the margins, an opportunity to flourish.
Jesuit Social Services mourns Pope Francis
- 23 April 2025
The death of Pope Francis is important for us at Jesuit Social Services because he was a Jesuit who became head of the Catholic Church from which we descend. His death, however, is more significant, more personal to us, because in his life he displayed spectacularly the qualities that are in our DNA.
Federal Budget a missed opportunity for national leadership on youth justice
- 27 March 2025
The 2025-26 Federal Budget represents a missed opportunity for the Federal Government to show national leadership on youth justice at a time when many states and territories are shunning the evidence of what works in preventing crime.
Links between pornography and gender based violence must be addressed
- 25 March 2025
More research is needed to better understand links between the consumption of pornography and harmful attitudes and behaviours in men and boys, harmful sexual behaviour in young people, and child sexual abuse, in order to ultimately prevent violence and abuse from occurring, says Jesuit Social Services.
State Budget must prioritise funding of early intervention support to help Victorians to flourish
- 14 March 2025
The Victorian Government’s 2025-26 State Budget must prioritise the funding, or re-funding, of critical services that support marginalised people and communities to flourish.
Proposed Victorian bail reforms won’t prevent crime
- 13 March 2025
The Victorian Government’s bail reforms, which will be introduced into Parliament next week, focus on the wrong end of the system when more investment is needed in preventing crime from occurring.
More research, targeted interventions needed for Australians to live free from violence
- 4 March 2025
Jesuit Social Services welcomes the statement released yesterday by Australian Commonwealth Commissioners and Ambassadors, saying ‘no more’ to violence in our communities.
Federal Budget must protect nation's children, says Jesuit Social Services
- 5 February 2025
Jesuit Social Services has called on the Federal Government to appoint a Minister for Children and invest in evidence-backed intervention to reduce family violence, child sexual abuse, and address failing youth justice systems.