Transcripts by The Hon Amanda Rishworth MP
Minister Rishworth interview on First Edition with Peter Stefanovic
E&OE PETER STEFANOVIC: More than 15,000 people living with disability will be directed to better performing job providers following a major review into the sector…
Minister Rishworth interview on Triple M with Celeste Mitsiou
E&OE CELESTE MITSIOU: This seems like a bit of a rort and surely it slashes some confidence for people? AMANDA RISHWORTH: We’re very concerned that…
Minister Rishworth press conference in Adelaide
E&OE AMANDA RISHWORTH: People living with a disability deserve the best support to get employment and that is why the Albanese Labor government today will…
Press conference in Darwin
E&OE NATASHA FYLES: Natasha Fyles, Chief Minister and I welcome Minister for Social Services Amanda Rishworth to the Territory. Today, the Albanese Labor Government is announcing…
Minister Rishworth interview on ABC Radio Darwin Drive with Liz Trevaskis
E&OE LIZ TREVASKIS: But if you are sticking around, this is something that we see every day in our community, isn’t it? A sad and…
Minister Rishworth interviewed on ABC Alice Springs Breakfast.
Topic: Central Australia funding for local Aboriginal corporations; cashless debit card; STEWART BRASH: It’s an absolutely awful statistic. Central Australia has the highest rates of…
Press conference in Alice Springs
E&OE AMANDA RISHWORTH: Today Labor has announced a $3 million investment to tackle violence and increase community safety in Alice Springs and the surrounding town…
Minister Rishworth interview with Tom Connell on Sky News
E&OE TOM CONNELL: Joining me now Social Services Minister Amanda Rishworth. Let’s begin with all things Scott Morrison. Social Services was rumoured to be a…
Interview on ABC Far North, Drive with Adam Stephen
E&OE ADAM STEPHEN: The Future of Welfare Management on Cape York, it’s been in focus this week. Controversial cashless debit cards that were being trialled…
Minister Rishworth on ABC NewsRadio breakfast with Thomas Oriti
E&OE THOMAS ORITI: Changes in government are remarkably rare in Australian federal politics – it’s only happened eight times since the end of the Second…
Minister Rishworth on Radio National Breakfast with Patricia Karvelas
E&OE PATRICIA KARVELAS: Australians in abusive relationships will be given ten days paid leave to help them escape violence and find extra support if Parliament…
Sky News Afternoon Agenda
E&OE KIERAN GILBERT: Minister, thanks for your time. With the scrapping of the Cashless Debit Card, will you be scrapping Income Management altogether as well? AMANDA…
Minister Rishworth interview on Weekend Sunrise
E&OE SALLY BOWREY: Ministers for women and women’s safety from across the country met in Adelaide yesterday for the first time to discuss the 10…
Interview with Social Services Minister Amanda Rishworth
E&OE PETER STEFANOVIC: US Ambassador to Australia, Caroline Kennedy, has just touched down in Sydney en-route to taking up her posting in Canberra. Joining us is…
Press conference post Women’s Safety Ministers Meeting
E&OE MINISTER FOR WOMEN KATY GALLAGHER: Thank you very much for coming today. Amanda Rishworth and I are here just following a very successful meeting…
ABC News Breakfast with Lisa Millar
E&OE LISA MILLAR: Tomorrow, a meeting in Adelaide will bring together the Federal Government ministers with responsibility for women and women’s safety. Their focus will…
National Plan for domestic and family violence, Monash University stakeholder consultation report
E&OE KIM LANDERS: There’s been another step towards the creation of a new ten-year national plan to tackle domestic and family violence. The Albanese Government…
Minister Rishworth on ABC Afternoon Briefing with Greg Jennett
E&OE GREG JENNETT: Amanda Rishworth, great to have you back on the program. I promise we do want to get to the important matter of…
Minister Rishworth on 6PR Mornings with Liam Bartlett
E&OE LIAM BARTLETT: First up, though, today, I want to talk about the never ending battle to end violence against women and children. Now, next week,…
5AA Breakfast with David and Will
E&OE WILL GOODINGS: There’s a story that will develop next week in cities and states right around the country. The Federal Government is commissioning a…
ABC Radio National Interview with Federal Social Services Minister, Amanda Rishworth
E&OE HAMISH MACDONALD: Parts of New South Wales have awoken to a swelling flood crisis after further heavy rain swamped already waterlogged rivers. There is…
Interview with Vanessa Mills on Breakfast, ABC Kimberley
E&OE VANESSA MILLS: The Federal Social Services Minister is in Kununurra today and tomorrow to begin the process of changing the cashless welfare card from…
Interview with Narelda Jacobs and John Paul Janke on The Point, NITV
E&OE JOHN PAUL JANKE: Well, it’s been in place for six years, but the controversial cashless debit card trial may soon be over. The new…
Joint doorstop interview, Park Royal Melbourne Airport
E&OE BILL SHORTEN, MINISTER FOR THE NDIS AND GOVERNMENT SERVICES: Good afternoon. I’m here with a number of federal and state colleagues. From the first…
Minister Rishworth interview on ABC North and West SA
E&OE NARELLE GRAHAM: First this hour, the cashless debit card – it’s been hotly debated, it’s an intervention, a form of compulsory income management that…