The Australian Government will significantly increase funding to volunteer organisations, providing an additional $66.0 million over this and the next four years for small equipment…
The Howard Government has made an additional $4.5 billion commitment over five years, through the 2007-08 Federal Budget, to further support families, children, people with…
The 2007-08 Federal Budget has reaffirmed the Howard Government’s commitment to older Australians by providing a one-off non taxable bonus payment of $500 to each…
A further 1,000 carers of young people with a severe or profound disability will have access to respite support as part of a $6 million…
“The 2007-08 Budget will deliver practical health, education, employment and welfare reform measures as well as help tackle housing overcrowding in remote Indigenous communities to…
The 2007-08 Federal Budget will provide $12.2 million to fund improvements to the highly successful National Disability Advocacy Programme (NDAP), including the introduction of a…
Up to 18,000 people with disability will continue to be supported in their employment with $116 million in Australian Government funding over the next four…
Canberra’s first building designed to achieve a five star Australian Greenhouse Building Rating has been completed for occupancy by the Department of Families, Community Services…
Four Indigenous families from today move into new houses they will be able to buy in the outstations of Wudapuli and Nama in the Wadeye…
Minister for Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, Mal Brough today announced two new measures to strengthen and protect families in Wadeye in the Northern…
Minister for Community Services Senator Nigel Scullion today announced up to $600,000 to expand individual disability advocacy services in rural and remote areas following a…
Indigenous young people from rural and regional Victoria will benefit from an $83,000 Australian Government initiative, which will see 10 youth leaders hold various activities…
The Howard Government today announced it was releasing a further $20 million to help communities under the Local Answers initiative. Minister for Families, Community Services…
Education programs, training and resource packages, support groups and CD rom manuals are among the projects to be funded to help increase the community’s knowledge…
"Jenny Macklin has defied her Leader at Labor’s national conference today, promising a return to the past in Indigenous affairs," Minister for Families, Community Services…
Minister for Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, Mal Brough, today urged young people to enter the Social Responsibility Writer’s Prize, with $12,000 in prizes…
The Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Women’s Issues the Hon Julie Bishop MP today opened registration for the 12th Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Women…
"ABS data released today doesn’t tell the whole story of the cost of child care," Minister for Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, Mal Brough,…
Minister for Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, Mal Brough, said the commissioning of the Warmun Power Station today was the first step to normalise…
An extra $85 million over four years will be committed to the Australian Government’s highly successful Reconnect program, which serves as the primary early intervention…
"It is time for the states and territories to come clean on what they are doing with federal funding for housing," Minister for Families, Community…
Hearing and vision impaired children in regional Australia are already benefiting from the brand new Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children (RIDBC) Teleschool program,…
"Latest figures confirm large numbers of child care vacancies across Australia," Minister for Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, Mal Brough, said today. "The information,…
"Labor’s response to the child care data I released today shows its policy is no more than an irresponsible stunt," Minister for Families, Community Services…
Indigenous people across Australia will keep up to date with all the latest AFL action thanks to a partnership between the Australian Government, the Australian…