First Home Owner’s Boost Extended
Media Release by The Hon Tanya Pibersek MPTonight the Rudd Government announces it will extend the highly successful First Home Owner’s Boost (FHOB) for an extra six months to support more Australian…
Record funding for Housing in 2009-10 Budget
Media Release by The Hon Tanya Pibersek MPThe Australian Government is tackling homelessness and housing affordability with a record $15.3 billion investment in housing programs. Over the next three years the Rudd…
Budget 2009-10 Housing and Status of Women Statement
Statement by The Hon Tanya Pibersek MP*Check against delivery* Hello, I’m Tanya Plibersek, Minister for Housing and Minister for the Status of Women. This years budget is focused on Nation Building…
$10.3 million boost for volunteering
Media Release by Senator the Hon Ursula StephensFifty Volunteer Resource Centres around Australia will benefit from $10.3 million in Australian Government funding to support a skilled, well-trained and well-resourced volunteer workforce. Celebrating…
Supporting Australians affected by disaster
Media Release by The Hon Bill Shorten MPThe 2009-10 Budget details the level of financial support provided to Australians affected by the devastating Victorian bushfires, the North Queensland floods, the South East…
Extra support for people with disability and their carers
Media Release by The Hon Bill Shorten MPThe Rudd Government is strengthening its commitment to people with disability and carers by providing extra support through a range of initiatives in the 2009-10…
Secure and Sustainable Pension Reform: Increased payments and better assessment for disability pensioners
Media Release by The Hon Bill Shorten MPAround 720,000 Australians receiving the Disability Support Pension will receive pension increases as part of the Government’s Secure and Sustainable Pensions Reforms. Many disability support…
Rudd Government delivers Paid Parental Leave
Media Release by The Hon Jenny Macklin MPThe Rudd Government has made an historic decision to commit $731 million over five years to Australia’s first comprehensive, statutory, Paid Parental Leave scheme. The…
$1.3 billion towards closing the gap
Media Release by The Hon Jenny Macklin MPThe Australian Government has committed $1.3 billion to continue driving its national reform agenda to close the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. This is…
Additional $50 million for Native Title System
Media Release by The Hon Jenny Macklin MPThe Rudd Government will provide additional funding to support the native title system so that it can help close the gap between Indigenous and non…
Over $200 million for closing the gap in Indigenous health
Media Release by The Hon Jenny Macklin MPThe Rudd Government is investing a further $204.3 million in the 2009-10 Budget to improve health care in Indigenous communities and help close the life…
$10 million to expand the Sporting Chance Program
Media Release by The Hon Jenny Macklin MPThe Rudd Government will invest a further $10 million over four years to support the expansion of the Sporting Chance Program to improve the education,…
Pension reform: impact on aged care and public housing
Media Release by The Hon Jenny Macklin MPThe Australian Government is taking steps to provide certainty to pensioners who live in aged care facilities and public housing who are concerned about the…
Secure and Sustainable Pension Reform: Age Pension Age
Media Release by The Hon Jenny Macklin MPAs part of the Government’s Secure and Sustainable Pension Reform, in 2017 the qualifying age for the Age Pension will gradually increase from 65 to…
Secure and Sustainable Pension Reform: Simpler and more flexible pension system
Media Release by The Hon Jenny Macklin MPPension payments will be simpler, fairer and more flexible under the Australian Government’s Secure and Sustainable Pension Reforms. The reforms provide certainty for Australian pensioners…
Strengthening Australia’s Indigenous visual arts sector
Media Release by The Hon Jenny Macklin MPThe Rudd Government will provide almost $10 million over four years to increase funding for Indigenous art centres and organisations, and support Indigenous employment. The…
Boost for emergency relief and money management projects
Media Release by The Hon Jenny Macklin MPTo help vulnerable Australians during the global recession, the Rudd Government will provide an additional $130.4 million to double funding for Emergency Relief and expand…
Secure and Sustainable Pension Reform: Increased payments and better assessment for disability pensioners
Media Release by The Hon Jenny Macklin MPAround 720,000 Australians receiving the Disability Support Pension will receive pension increases as part of the Government’s Secure and Sustainable Pensions Reforms. Many disability support…
Closing the Gap in the Northern Territory
Media Release by The Hon Jenny Macklin MPThe Rudd Government is strengthening measures to enhance community safety, tackle child abuse and rebuild communities in the Northern Territory, committing $807.4 million over three…
Secure and Sustainable Pension Reform: New payment for 500,000 carers across Australia
Media Release by The Hon Jenny Macklin MPAround 500,000 carers across Australia will receive a new, permanent, Carer Supplement to help them meet the significant financial challenges they face, as part of…
Secure and Sustainable Pension Reform: A pension that keeps up with the cost of living
Media Release by The Hon Jenny Macklin MPNew indexation arrangements will better reflect cost of living increases for pensioners as part of the Government’s Secure and Sustainable Pension Reform. A new Pensioner…
Secure and Sustainable Pension Reform: Three million Australian pensioners benefit from reforms
Media Release by The Hon Jenny Macklin MPAustralia’s single pensioners will receive increases of up to $32.49 a week as part of the Australian Government’s Secure and Sustainable Pension Reforms. All 3.3…
Extra support for people with disability and their carers
Media Release by The Hon Jenny Macklin MPThe Rudd Government is strengthening its commitment to people with disability and carers by providing extra support through a range of initiatives in the 2009-10…
Supporting Australians affected by disaster
Media Release by The Hon Jenny Macklin MPThe 2009-10 Budget details the level of financial support provided to Australians affected by the devastating Victorian bushfires, the North Queensland floods, the South East…
Secure and Sustainable Pension Reform: New ‘work bonus’ for Age Pensioners
Media Release by The Hon Jenny Macklin MPAge and service pensioners will be able to keep more of the money they earn through part time work under the Australian Government’s Secure and…