Media Releases by Senator the Hon Amanda Vanstone
Victorian Government Fails People With Disabilities
Ms Bronwyn Pike, the Victorian Disabilities Minister, is failing people with disabilities in Victoria by choosing to play politics rather than committing to a new…
NSW Government Fails People With Disabilities
Ms Carmel Tebbutt, the New South Wales Disabilities Minister, is failing people with disabilities in New South Wales by choosing to play politics rather than…
Llewellyn Wrong on Disability Funding
Mr David Llewellyn, the Tasmanian Disabilities Minister, is dead wrong when he asserts that the Commonwealth’s offer for the next Commonwealth State and Territory Disability…
NT Government Fails People With Disabilities
Ms Jane Aagaard, the Northern Territory Disabilities Minister, is failing people with disabilities in the Northern Territory by choosing to play politics rather than committing…
SA Government fails people with disabilities
Ms Stephanie Key, the South Australian Disabilities Minister, is failing people with disabilities in South Australia by choosing to play politics rather than committing to…
Boost to pension and adult benefit rates
Over 3.9 million pensioners and adults receiving income support will benefit from a rise in pension and adult benefit rates from 20 September 2002. The…
States Reluctant To Commit to Extra Disability Funding
Today I have again written to the State and Territory Disability Ministers asking them to outline their funding commitments for a third five-year Commonwealth State…
PM’s Employer of the Year Awards – Victoria
I want to congratulate the state and territory winners of the 2001 Prime Minister’s Employer of the Year Awards. All of the winners have shown…
PM’s Employer of the Year Awards – New South Wales
I want to congratulate the state and territory winners of the 2001 Prime Minister’s Employer of the Year Awards. All of the winners have shown…
PM’s Employer of the Year Awards – Tasmania
I want to congratulate the state and territory winners of the 2001 Prime Minister’s Employer of the Year Awards. All of the winners have shown…
PM’s Employer of the Year Awards – ACT
I want to congratulate the state and territory winners of the 2001 Prime Minister’s Employer of the Year Awards. All of the winners have shown…
PM’s Employer of the Year Awards – Northern Territory
I want to congratulate the state and territory winners of the 2001 Prime Minister’s Employer of the Year Awards. All of the winners have shown…
PM’s Employer of the Year Awards – Western Australia
I want to congratulate the state and territory winners of the 2001 Prime Minister’s Employer of the Year Awards. All of the winners have shown…
Welfare Cheat Taken to the Cleaners
A tip-off that was then followed up by a quality Centrelink investigation has led to the sentencing of a Newcastle woman for defrauding the Commonwealth…
Haigh’s Chocolates and Eurest give people with disabilities a fair go
Today I am pleased to announce the winners of the Prime Minister’s Employer of the Year Awards for South Australia. Haigh’s Chocolates has won the…
Awards showcase employers who give people with disabilities a go
Today I am announcing the winners of the Prime Minister’s Employer of the Year Awards for Queensland. The Calvary Hospital here in Cairns has won…
ACOSS inadvertently misleads
ACOSS should have checked its figures before making embarrassing claims about increases in breaches in today’s media. The facts are that on ACOSS’s own estimate…
NSW Short-Changes Disability Services $111m In 2001-02
Disabled people in New South Wales are being forced to go without support services as a result of the NSW Government’s inept management of funding…
Community and Business Getting Together
I am pleased to acknowledge the release of the report, ‘Mutual Benefit – Community and Business Getting Together’ that focuses on partnerships in the disability…
Families Want Long Term Security
“Like generations of parents before them, parents today want to give their children more than they had,” Senator Vanstone said today. For people who grew…
Fraudster’s evasive efforts futile
A Tasmanian man who tried to evade a summons to appear in court by faking a move interstate was sentenced to 10 months jail in…
Adventure Campsite one of 27 projects to strengthen QLD communities
$30,025 for an Adventure Campsite in Booringa Shire is just one of the projects funded in Queensland under the Howard Government’s Stronger Families and Communities…
Sports leadership program for young people one of 16 projects to strengthen NT communities
$24,560 for a project to allow young Tiwi Islanders to take part in an AFL leadership program is just one of the projects funded in…
A ‘Community Shed’ initiative one of six projects to strengthen Victorian communities
$42,000 for a project to encourage Victorian men to interact and share their skills in a ‘Community Shed’ is just one of the projects funded…
Skate Park for youth in Pingelly one of eight projects to strengthen WA communities
$31,000 for the Pingelly Youth Skate Park is just one of the projects funded in Western Australia under the Howard Government’s Stronger Families and Communities…