Housing Opportunities for Tiwi Island Residents

Media Release by The Hon Jenny Macklin MP

The Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, Jenny Macklin and the Northern Territory Chief Minister, Paul Henderson today visited Nguiu on the…

Indigenous job opportunities boosted in Darwin

Media Release by The Hon Jenny Macklin MP

Indigenous Business Australia (IBA), a statutory body of the Australian Government, and Larrakia Development Corporation have entered into a joint venture with the Toga Group,…

More affordable housing for seniors in Ryde

Media Release by The Hon Tanya Pibersek MP

Tanya Plibersek, and Member for Bennelong, Maxine McKew, today inspected a new social housing project which is delivering 17 new affordable homes for seniors and…

$80 million to help Australians with a mental illness

Media Release by The Hon Jenny Macklin MP

Australians with a severe mental illness will continue to have access to intensive, one-on-one support through an $80.3 million over three years funding extension to…

Statement on Christine Nixon

Media Release by The Hon Bill Shorten MP

Christine Nixon is doing an excellent job as head of the Victorian Bushfire Reconstruction and Recovery Authority. Her hard work on the ground, and ability…

Autism advocates take to the streets to raise awareness

Media Release by The Hon Bill Shorten MP

Parliamentary Secretary for Disabilities, Bill Shorten has praised hundreds of children with Autism, their families and carers who have marched through Melbourne to raise awareness…

No April Fool: Paid Parental Leave due in nine months

Media Release by The Hon Jenny Macklin MP

Today is an important date for couples thinking about having a baby. From today, it is exactly nine months until Australia’s first paid parental leave…

Continuing the search for Pemulwuy’s remains

Media Release by The Hon Jenny Macklin MP

The Australian Government today welcomed the UK Government working with its museums to return the missing skull of Aboriginal warrior Pemulwuy. Sydney Indigenous leaders raised…

Paid Parental Leave, Doorstop, Canberra

Transcript by The Hon Jenny Macklin MP

*** E & OE – Proof only *** JENNY MACKLIN: Thanks everybody for being here today. If I can first of all thank everyone here…

Better care for young people with disability

Media Release by The Hon Bill Shorten MP

Over 190 young people with disability were moved out of, or were diverted from entering residential aged care facilities between June 2006 and December 2008,…

Better care for young people with disability

Media Release by The Hon Jenny Macklin MP

Over 190 young people with disability were moved out of, or were diverted from entering residential aged care facilities between June 2006 and December 2008,…

New insights into the lives of Australian households

Media Release by The Hon Jenny Macklin MP

Research released today, tracking the lives of over 8,000 Australians, sheds new light on their intentions to have children and how these intentions translate into…

Jobs Fund supports Lime Street Accommodation to go green

Media Release by The Hon Tanya Pibersek MP

Minister for Housing Tanya Plibersek and Federal Member for Perth Stephen Smith today announced $770,000 funding for St Bartholomew’s House Lime Street Project under the…

350 New Affordable Homes in Henley Brook

Media Release by The Hon Tanya Pibersek MP

Minister for Housing, Tanya Plibersek, today visited the Henley Brook housing development in Perth’s Swan Valley, where around 350 homes will be made cheaper and…

$50 million for more affordable homes

Media Release by The Hon Tanya Pibersek MP

The Australian Government today announced eight housing development projects which will share in $50 million under Round Two of the Housing Affordability Fund. The $50…