Pre-Budget Consultation 2026-27 - Tasmanian Department of Finance and Treasury - December 2025
In November 2025, the Tasmanian Department of Treasury and Finance called for submissions to inform the state’s pre‑Budget process.
As a major service provider throughout Tasmania, The Salvation Army took part in the process, advocating for specific programs to be supported, with a particular focus on social and affordable housing, alcohol and other drug (AOD) recovery services, emergency relief, family and children’s services, family and domestic violence services, reintegration services, and homelessness services.
Our submission was informed by our frontline services and made tangible recommendations for funding the delivery of new and existing programs. Other recommendations called for whole‑of‑sector rethinking.
We call for the Tasmanian Government to:
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Increase the supply of social housing, with a target of 10 per cent of the total housing supply consisting of social housing
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Fund statewide ex‑prisoner reintegration services to reduce recidivism
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Support the continued delivery of the Street 2 Home service for people sleeping rough in Hobart
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Provide support for the delivery of residential AOD services, including The Salvation Army’s North‑West Residential Program and community‑based withdrawal beds
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Increase support for emergency relief and the state’s Energy Hardship Fund
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Provide funding for The Salvation Army’s Pathway to Hope program to deliver personalised casework and support for families and young people in need
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Support The Salvation Army to continue delivering family and domestic violence services through McCombe House as crisis accommodation for victim‑survivors