Rolling out income management in the Northern Territory
Media Release by The Hon Jenny Macklin MPA new tool to help ensure parents are providing their children with the necessities of life is now available across the Northern Territory. As part…
Income management is improving lives in Western Australia
Media Release by The Hon Jenny Macklin MPAn independent evaluation has shown the Australian Government’s trial of child protection and voluntary income management in Perth and the Kimberley is having a positive…
Child protection income management measure, Alice Springs Transformation Plan, Alice Springs town camps, SIHIP
Transcript by The Hon Jenny Macklin MP*** E & OE – Proof only *** JENNY MACKLIN: I’m very pleased to be here in Alice Springs today with my Ministerial colleague from…
Cape York welfare reform trial getting runs on the board
Media Release by The Hon Jenny Macklin MPAmendments to the Family Responsibilities Commission Act 2008 have been passed in the Queensland State Parliament to reflect positive changes being made through the ground-breaking…
Transforming the Alice Springs town camps
Media Release by The Hon Jenny Macklin MPThe Australian and Northern Territory Governments today announced the details of the final package of housing and refurbishment works for the Alice Springs town camps.…
Still a long way to go for women in corporate Australia
Media Release by The Hon Kate Ellis MPKate Ellis has said today that the results of the Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace’s Census of Women in Leadership are still not…
Progress underway in remote Indigenous communities
Media Release by The Hon Jenny Macklin MPThe Australian Government today released the second six monthly report from the Coordinator General for Remote Indigenous Services, Brian Gleeson, on the progress being made…
New counselling service launched to support Australians who have experienced violence
Media Release by The Hon Kate Ellis MPMinister for the Status of Women, Kate Ellis will today launch a new telephone counselling service for Australians who have experienced or are at risk…
Applications for Australia’s first Paid Parental Leave scheme open today
Media Release by The Hon Jenny Macklin MPFrom today working parents expecting a baby in the New Year will be able to lodge their claims for Paid Parental Leave. We know how…
New Social Security Agreement with Poland
Media Release by The Hon Jenny Macklin MPToday, on the International Day of Older Persons, a new Social Security Agreement with Poland comes into force, enabling more than 11,000 residents from both…
Paid Parental Leave Scheme, Wild Rivers
Transcript by The Hon Jenny Macklin MP*** E & OE – Proof only *** JENNY MACKLIN: Thanks everyone for joining us here at this terrific Baby Show in Sydney today. I’m…
New committee to progress gambling reform
Media Release by The Hon Jenny Macklin MPA new Joint Select Committee on Gambling Reform was established by the Parliament today. The committee was established to help progress the Gillard Government’s gambling…
House of Representatives Economics Committee to examine Wild Rivers
Media Release by The Hon Jenny Macklin MPThe Gillard Government today announced that it will refer the issues surrounding the Queensland Government’s Wild Rivers Act to the House of Representatives Economics Committee…
Pre-commitment technology and gambling reforms
Transcript by The Hon Jenny Macklin MP*** E & OE – Proof only *** WALEED ALY: There’s been lots of suggestions about how we might be able to limit problem gambling…
Reports highlight benefits of poker machine pre-commitment technology
Media Release by The Hon Jenny Macklin MPNew research released today shows pre-commitment technology can be effective in reducing the amount of money problem gamblers spend on poker machines and can help…
Minister congratulates Deadly Award winners
Media Release by Senator the Hon Mark ArbibMinister for Indigenous Employment and Economic Development Mark Arbib today congratulated the winners of the 2010 Deadly Awards for their fantastic achievements and commitment to…
UK museum returns Torres Strait ancestral remains
Media Release by The Hon Jenny Macklin MPA delegation from the Torres Strait today returned from Liverpool after collecting the remains of a young child, which were removed from Erub (Darnley Island)…
Celebrating Indigenous talent at the Deadlys
Media Release by The Hon Jenny Macklin MPThe Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, Jenny Macklin, today congratulated the 28 Indigenous Australians and organisations that received awards at last…
Gillard Government welcomes social housing report
Media Release by Senator the Hon Mark ArbibMinister for Social Housing and Homelessness, Senator Mark Arbib, today welcomed the release of a report by the Australian Institute for Health and Welfare that…
Australian and Victorian Governments plan to tackle homelessness
Media Release by Senator the Hon Mark ArbibThe Gillard Government today re-affirmed its commitment to tackling homelessness in Victoria, welcoming the release of A Better Place: Victorian Homelessness 2020 Strategy. Minister for…
Meat industry jobs for Aboriginal workers in Dubbo
Media Release by Senator the Hon Mark ArbibThe Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, Jenny Macklin, and the Minister for Indigenous Employment and Economic Development, Mark Arbib, today announced…
Meat industry jobs for Aboriginal workers in Dubbo
Media Release by The Hon Jenny Macklin MPThe Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, Jenny Macklin, and the Minister for Indigenous Employment and Economic Development, Mark Arbib, today announced…
$26 Million Short Term Patient Accommodation for Royal Darwin Hospital
Media Release by The Hon Jenny Macklin MPThe Federal Minister for Indigenous Health, Warren Snowdon and NT Minister for Health, Kon Vatskalis, today officially announced two new short-term patient accommodation facilities at…
Regional Partnership Agreement for New England region
Media Release by Senator the Hon Mark ArbibThe Australian and New South Wales Governments and the 14 local Aboriginal land councils in the NSW Aboriginal Land Council’s Northern Region Forum today made…
Investing in Indigenous men’s group in Wilcannia
Media Release by Senator the Hon Mark ArbibThe Gillard Government is investing $80,000 in the Wilcannia Indigenous men’s group, Wimpitja Maali Yaparda, following the development of the Local Implementation Plan for the…