Media Releases by Senator the Hon Amanda Vanstone
Prime Minister’s Community Business Partnership Award Winners – Tasmania
I want to congratulate the two Tasmanian partnerships that have won State Awards in the 2002 Prime Minister’s Awards for Excellence in Community Business Partnerships.…
Prime Minister’s Community Business Partnership Award Winners – SA
I want to congratulate the three South Australian partnerships that have won Prime Minister’s Awards for Excellence in Community Business Partnerships. Burns for Blinds and…
Prime Minister’s Awards for Excellence in Community and Business Partnerships – Queensland
I want to congratulate the three Queensland partnerships that have won State awards in the 2002 Prime Minister’s Awards for Excellence in Community Business Partnerships.…
Prime Minister’s Community Business Partnership Award Winners – Victoria
I want to congratulate the four Victorian partnerships that have won awards in the 2002 Prime Minister’s Awards for Excellence in Community Business Partnerships. A…
Disability Agreement Ready To Be Signed
State and Territory Disability Ministers appear to be deliberately holding up settling a third Commonwealth State and Territory Disability Agreement (CSTDA). In doing so, the…
2002 Prime Minister’s Community Business Partnership Award Winners – WA
I want to congratulate the Midland Brick Company and Hills Community Support Group who have won the WA State Award in the Large Business Category…
2002 Prime Minister’s Community Business Partnership Award Winners – NT
The combined efforts of Alcan Gove, YBE Aboriginal enterprises, and a number of indigenous organisations and clans in north-east Arnhem Land have created YNOTS, a…
New Web Site to Help Bali Victims and Families
A new web site is now online to give Bali victims and their families a central point of information that contains all of the financial…
Government Help for Bali Victims and Families
The Howard Government is committed to helping Australians affected by the Bali bombings and will cover all reasonable expenses associated with the tragedy for victims…
Commonwealth offers landmark housing deal
At today’s meeting with State and Territory Housing Ministers in Hobart I issued a challenge to the State and Territory governments by offering a new,…
Centacare To Combat Indigenous Family Homelessness In Salisbury
I am pleased to announce that Centacare has been chosen to deliver early intervention services designed to prevent Indigenous family homelessness in the Salisbury area.Indigenous…
Carers Week
Carers Week will be celebrated from 20-26 October 2002. The theme is ‘Are You a Family Carer?’ with the focus being on reaching hidden carers…
entrelink provides 24-hour help for Bali Disaster victims
Centrelink has extended the operating hours of its Bali Disaster hotline to 24 hour per day to ensure victims and their families get speedy access…
Centrelink Wins National Call Centre Award
Centrelink has been recognised as one of Australia’s leading organisations, outdoing the toughest private sector competition in the nation to win the coveted Teleservices Centre…
Disability Funding – the next steps
If today’s Communique represents a genuine start by the States and Territories to detail their five year funding commitments, then I welcome it. The Commonwealth…
Domestic Violence Campaign for people from Non-English Speaking Backgrounds
Today I am launching an important $500,000 national campaign to increase community awareness of domestic violence in non-English speaking background (NESB) communities. Starting this week,…
Personal Advisers Start Today: More Help for the Most Vulnerable
Many Australians on income support will receive even more personalised services with the launch of Centrelink’s Personal Advisers, as part of the Australians Working Together…
Voices of Australian women – Australian women speak 2003
Following the success of the inaugural national Australian Women SpeakConference held in Canberra in August 2001, I am pleased to announce that a second conference…
Groundhog Day? Swan wrong again… and again…
Wayne Swan’s criticism of the Family Tax Benefit changes demonstrates that he completely misunderstands what we are planning to do. He either hasn’t properly read…
Wayne Swan Wrong Again
The Family Tax Benefit changes announced yesterday give families greater choice over how they receive their payments. Families’ entitlements have not been changed. No one…
FTB fine-tuning – More choice and flexibility for families
The Government has listened to Australian families who have asked for more flexibility in the Family Tax Benefit (FTB) and Child Care Benefit (CCB) system.…
Taxi rank raid on welfare cheats
Centrelink has cancelled, suspended or reduced the welfare payments of 25 people following a swoop on taxi drivers completed in Brisbane this morning. The two-day…
Queensland Government Fails People With Disabilities
Ms Judy Spence, the Queensland Disabilities Minister, is failing people with disabilities in Queensland by choosing to play politics rather than committing to a new…
WA Government Fails People With Disabilities
Ms Sheila McHale, the Western Australian Disabilities Minister, is failing people with disabilities in Western Australia by choosing to play politics rather than committing to…
ACT Government Fails People With Disabilities
Mr Jon Stanhope, the ACT Disabilities Minister, is failing people with disabilities in the ACT by choosing to play politics rather than committing to a…