Media Releases by Senator the Hon Amanda Vanstone
Mobile Toy Library one of 23 projects to strengthen NSW communities
$241,750 for a Mobile Toy Library in the Bega Valley Shire is just one of the projects funded in New South Wales under the Howard…
Support for young children and families one of five projects to strengthen Tasmanian communities
$216,666 for a project in Waverley and Ravenswood to support the development of young children and help local families is just one of the projects…
Tomato pickers’ $200,000 welfare scam turns rotten
Centrelink has cancelled, suspended or reduced the payments of 33 people for failing to declare earnings stemming from a cash economy field investigation near Bowen,…
Support for volunteers one of 20 projects to strengthen SA communities
$69,412 in funding for volunteers who help South Australians facing financial crisis is just one of the projects funded in South Australia under the Howard…
Awards capture the Australian can do spirit
Australians are renowned for their capacity to ‘have a go’ and pull together to get things done, particularly in adversity. We would never have survived…
Homelessness amongst secondary school students
Today the Salvation Army in Melbourne put out a report that claims, over 8 years since 1994, there’s been an 8% increase in homeless kids.…
Child care – 36% more funding and 63% more places than Labor
Labor has got no legs to stand on when it talks about child care. The simple fact is that Commonwealth funding for child care was…
Poultry plant swoop plucks 29 undeclared incomes
Today Centrelink cancelled 12 Newstart Allowance payments and a further 17 customers had their welfare entitlements suspended pending investigation following a raid on a poultry…
Commonwealth puts extra disability funding on the table
The Commonwealth recognizes the need for increased accommodation services and is determined to see this need catered for. The CSTDA streamlines management and administration responsibility…
The Need for Disability Reform
Reform of the Disability Support Pension is long overdue. Just about everybody recognises the importance of a sustainable and fair income support system for people…
Launch of the Personal Support Programme
Today’s launch of the Howard Government’s new Personal Support Programme is the biggest ever increase in services to help people who have serious personal issues…
Centrelink’s new service approach to 6.4 million customers
Centrelink is providing new and vastly improved information to its 6.4 million customers. Information will now be packaged and presented according to a customer’s needs…
A New Voice for Rural Women
The National Rural Women’s Alliance has won the tender to establish the National Rural Women’s Secretariat. This initiative will give women living in rural and…
Funding Boost to Commonwealth Disability Services
The Howard Government will provide additional support to the disability sector by making a one-off payment to all of the 950 disability services across Australia…
Women 2002 – A Centenary Of Women’s Suffrage
Today’s release of Women 2002is a special Centenary of Women’s Suffrage issue. Not only does this annual publication provide the latest information about Australian women,…
Increase to Family Tax Benefit a Boost for families
Around 2 million families will benefit from an increase of 3.1 per cent for the Family Tax Benefit from 1 July this year to help…
Boost to Centrelink services in southern Fleurieu
Residents of the southern Fleurieu Peninsula and Kangaroo Island will benefit from a boost to Centrelink services in the region from July 1. As a…
Pension boost from 1 July
Around 820,000 Australians currently receiving less than the maximum rate of the pension are expected to get a boost to their payments from the beginning…
Four Month Extension of Current Disability Agreement
The current Commonwealth State Territory Disability Agreement is due to expire on 30 June 2002. The Commonwealth is presently in negotiations with the States and…
Public Artwork to celebrate the Centenary of Women’s Suffrage
Today marks the one hundred year anniversary of women in Australia being granted the right to vote and stand in Federal elections. To commemorate this…
Centenary of Women’s Suffrage
Today marks the one hundred year anniversary of women in Australia being granted the right to vote and stand in Federal elections. On such an…
Lone parents: Swan’s scare campaign continues
Wayne Swan has continued his scare campaign today by claiming that the Government has a secret welfare agenda that will target lone parents. Nothing could…
Specialised help for our most vulnerable
Today I am pleased to announce the 144 organisations that will deliver the new Personal Support Programme (PSP) from July 2002 (see attachment). By 2005…
UK High Court decision lets down pensioners
I am very disappointed with the United Kingdom High Court’s decision that the refusal to pay indexed pensions into countries such as Australia was lawful.…
Government Invests in Keeping Families Together
Thousands of families, particularly those in rural and regional Australia, will benefit from more than $5 million of investment in relationship services over the next…