Media Releases by Senator the Hon Amanda Vanstone

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…