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This grant opportunity supports action to grow the mental health and suicide prevention peer workforce by supporting 500 training placements for lived experience (peer) worker students.

The current Australian Qualifications Framework qualification available to peer workers is the Certificate IV in Mental Health Peer Work, which must be delivered and assessed through Registered Training Organisations (RTOs) such as TAFEs. To achieve this qualification, students must complete at least 80 hours of work, typically undertaken through a placement.

Multiple challenges have been identified for students to complete these placements, including a shortage of quality placement opportunities and adequately trained staff to supervise. This grant opportunity seeks to address this issue by supporting mental health and suicide prevention services to provide placements and appropriate supervision to students.

The objectives of the grant opportunity are to:

• facilitate better access to training placements across a range of mental health and suicide prevention service settings for students undertaking the Certificate IV in Mental Health Peer Work 
• support supervision costs and build organisational readiness to host student placements in the Certificate IV in Mental Health Peer Work
• build capacity and diversity of the mental health and suicide prevention peer workforce.

The intended outcomes of the grant opportunity are to:

• provide increased and improved placement opportunities for peer work students in a range of locations and service settings, including increased access to placements for priority populations and/or areas of greatest need
• increase the number of students completing the Certificate IV in Mental Health Peer Work.

To be eligible you must be one of the following entity types:

• Indigenous Corporation (registered under the Corporations (Aboriginal and /or Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006) 
• Company  
• Corporate Commonwealth Entity 
• Corporate State or Territory Entity  
• Non-corporate State or Territory Entity  
• Non-corporate State or Territory Statutory Authority 
• Cooperative 
• Incorporated Association 
• Statutory Entity  
• Partnership 

If you are applying as a Trustee on behalf of a Trust, the Trustee must have an eligible entity type as listed above.

Applications from consortia are acceptable, providing there is a lead organisation that is solely accountable to the Commonwealth for the delivery of grant activities and is an eligible entity as per the list above. Only the lead organisation can submit the application form and enter into a grant agreement with the Commonwealth. 

The objective of the GPACI is to improve access to quality, proactive general practice care for older people who live in aged care homes by incentivising proactive visits, regular, planned reviews and coordinated care planning.

Primary care providers and practices registered in MyMedicare will receive incentive payments for providing their MyMedicare registered patients who permanently live in residential aged care homes with care planning services and regular visits.

Practices participating in The Bulk Billing Practice Incentive Program (BBPIP) receive an additional 12.5% incentive payment on every $1 of the MBS benefits paid from eligible services, split evenly (50/50) between the GP and the practice. 

Participating practices must bulk bill every eligible MBS service (Outlined at Appendix 15.3 of the Grant Opportunity Guidelines) for all their Medicare-eligible patients to receive the incentive payment. Eligible MBS services include the most common GP services such as time-tiered consultation items, health assessments, mental health treatment items, and chronic condition management items. The BBPIP incentive payment is in addition to MBS benefits paid, and MBS BBIs are paid independently of the BBPIP incentive payments.

Living organ donation is major surgery and carries risk for the donor. Prospective donors undergo extensive work-up testing to ensure they are physically and mentally able to donate, and these medical appointments may require donors to take time off work. If donation surgery proceeds, donors may require a significant amount of time off work to recover. The extensive work-up testing and donation surgery may require donors to travel long distances for medical appointments.

The program aims to ensure that taking time off work and out-of-pocket travel and accommodation expenses are not a barrier for individuals considering donation. The program provides reimbursement of paid leave and out-of-pocket expenses associated with donation.    

The program is not an incentive to donate. It is designed to help support those individuals who wish to donate but cannot afford to due to loss of income and the financial stress it would cause for them and their family.

The purpose of the program is to reduce the financial stress associated with being a living organ donor, raise the profile of living organ donors and encourage employers to support employees who have chosen to donate an organ.

o be eligible you must be:

• An individual / person

To be eligible for leave reimbursement, you must have donated a kidney or partial liver, or done work-up testing and be:

• donating in Australia; and
• an Australian resident (as defined by the Health Insurance Act 1973); and
• have a valid Medicare card; and
• 18 years of age or older; and
• employed by a registered Australian business with an active ABN. The employer must be willing to participate in the program; or
• self-employed with an active ABN.

To be eligible for out-of-pocket expenses reimbursement, you must have donated a kidney or partial liver, or done work-up testing and be:

• donating in Australia; and
• an Australian resident (as defined by the Health Insurance Act 1973), with a valid Medicare card OR donating to an Australian resident (as defined by the Health Insurance Act 1973), with a valid Medicare card; and
• 18 years of age or older

The Continence Aids Payment Scheme (CAPS) provides a payment to help reduce the costs of buying continence products from a supplier of your choice.

To get CAPS you need to meet all the eligibility requirements. The basic requirements are that you:

• have permanent and severe incontinence
• have an eligible neurological condition or eligible other condition that is the cause of your permanent and severe incontinence
• be 5 years or older
• be an Australian citizen.

The CAPS payment rate for 2025–26 is $717.10. The payment may increase or decrease a little every year following the Government’s budget process.