Ten Green Zones in the first term. Healing Centres built into every SBC corridor town. Ten free psychology sessions per year, zero gap. $10/hr childcare. Hospice and respite in nature. Real housing for the homeless. The community is the medicine.
40% of Australians experienced loneliness at least weekly in April 2025 (AIHW). Life satisfaction has fallen from 7.0 in 2021 to 6.5 in 2025. The decline is largest among young people — the generation most digitally connected and least socially supported. Loneliness drives depression, anxiety, suicide, addiction, and chronic illness. It is the structural mental-health crisis of the era.
1 in 5 Australians have experienced physical or sexual domestic violence since age 15. Childcare costs up to $200 per day. Male suicide is the leading cause of death for men under 54. The family-court system is destroying families and fathers. The social architecture that holds people together is failing across multiple fronts simultaneously.
The NDIS has 693,000 participants — up 48% since 2021 — with no structural improvement in outcomes. Aged care is failing: people want to stay home, the system doesn't deliver it. Homelessness has accumulated for two decades while housing got more expensive every year. The systems Australia relies on for vulnerability are themselves vulnerable.
Ten pilot Green Zones in the first term — two per state. Not government offices. Community centres combining Services Australia, Medicare, mental health, GP clinic, library, commercial kitchen, maker space, community garden, music space, and event hall under one roof. Measured. Evaluated. Rolled out nationally in subsequent terms — eventually one per community.
Purpose-built healing institutions co-located with every SBC corridor community. Take chronically addicted, severely mentally ill, and chronically homeless people off the street. All therapies deployed: psychiatry, trauma therapy, horticultural, music and art therapy, physical work, and psychedelic-assisted therapy where indicated. Designed around the evidence — not the convenience of the funding agency.
Ten fully funded psychology sessions per year — zero gap, no means testing. HECS cleared for mental health workforce committing to rural service. Green Zones co-locate mental health services with community spaces — walk-in accessible, daily presence, destigmatised. Mental illness requiring a specialist should not be treated with a waiting list.
SBC corridor housing at $150,000–$250,000 — permanent homes on Crown land, rent-to-buy model. Granny flats as-of-right nationally — secondary dwellings without council approval. Country Care Communities: permanent housing plus health, employment, and community support. Green Zones keep housed people housed. The end of housing-first as a slogan and the beginning of housing-first as a policy.
Royal Commission into Family Law within the first term — evidence standards reviewed, coercive control addressed. DV treated as a PEOPLE mandate — community breakdown, not only policing. Safe housing for DV survivors integrated into Country Care Communities. Male behaviour change programs funded and tracked. Both the protection of victims and the prevention of further violence funded at the scale of the actual problem.
Personal drug use decriminalised — addiction treated as health, not crime. Cannabis legalised with 30% excise. Meth treatment funded at the scale of the actual problem. Healing Centres take the most acute cases off the street. Australia already has injection clinics that keep people alive. The evidence is in. The policy follows the evidence.
People want to stay home. The system doesn't deliver it. MMP funds home-based aged care as the default, with high-quality residential care for those who genuinely need it. Respite in nature — corridor-based aged care retreats giving carers a real break. Wages for aged care workers lifted. Royal Commission recommendations fully implemented. The dignity of the older Australian is the measure of the country.
Ministry for Families on Day 1. Childcare capped at $10/hr maximum — not means-tested. 26 weeks parental leave, 8 weeks reserved per parent. Granny flats as-of-right. Free relationship counselling through Medicare. Detail in the Family Law one-pager.
NDIS review within 90 days. Plans designed around actual need, not arbitrary categories. Auditing of provider rorts genuinely funded. Workers properly paid and supervised. Participants treated with dignity. The scheme is necessary and valuable — and it has to be rescued from the structural problems that are eating it from the inside.
No memos pinned to this policy yet. When an MMP memo on this topic is published, it will appear here with a short summary. The full memo index is at moralmajority.com.au/memos.html.