The Minister for Family and Community Services, Senator Kay Patterson, today reminded families that an administrative scheme will be established to cover families who are…
The Labor Party has misused figures to try and score cheap political points on the number of long-term unemployed people, the Minister for Family and…
The Minister for Family and Community Services, Senator Kay Patterson, today announced that the Social Security Agreement between Australia and the Republic of Croatia came…
The Minister for Family and Community Services, Senator Kay Patterson, today announced that the Social Security Agreement between Australia and Chile came into effect on…
The Minister for Family and Community Services, Kay Patterson, today announced increases in funding to the Australian Government’s highly successful Personal Support Programme (PSP). “The…
The Minister for Family and Community Services, Senator Kay Patterson, was today joined at Centrelink’s Ringwood Customer Service Centre by 95 year-old Mrs Alice Berry…
Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Larry Anthony, today said nominations are open for the 2005 Young Australian of the Year Awards. “The Awards present…
Around 2 million families have been paid their $600 per child one-off bonus according to the eligibility criteria set out in legislation. There have been…
Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Larry Anthony welcomed today’s announcement by the Prime Minister of a $116 million package over four years to address…
About two million Australian families will receive nearly an extra quarter of a billion dollars in Family Tax Benefit payments from July 1 to assist…
Title: Labor tells families how to spend their money but refuses to release Family Policy Article Date: 27/06/2004 Page Content 1:The Labor Party is only…
The Minister for Family and Community Services, Senator Kay Patterson, called on the Bracks government to follow South Australia’s lead and give Victoria’s 70,000 self-funded…
More than 900 cases of welfare fraud in NSW were convicted last financial year, as part of the Australian Government’s ongoing efforts to keep the…
The Australian Government’s commitment to keeping the social security system fair and honest has seen 598 Queenslanders convicted of welfare fraud in the last financial…
In addition to the tax exempt status that playgroups already enjoy, from today Playgroup Australia and its affiliated state associations will also be granted deductible…
The time has come for Labor to put party politics aside and support the Australian Government’s elimination of violence against women campaign, Violence Against Women.…
The number of Australian Federal Police (AFP) Agents helping to detect and investigate social security fraud will more than double over the next year under…
The Federal Government has not instructed Centrelink to stop compliance and review programs to recover overpayments from people receiving benefits, the Minister for Family and…
The Labor Party has been urged to act on calls from its backbench to drop its opposition to reform of the Disability Support Pension. The…
My parliamentary colleagues (TBC) Valued members from the youth development sector Distinguished Guests Ladies and Gentlemen Thank you, Mark (Sullivan) for your introduction. I am…
A new resource kit launched today by the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Larry Anthony, will help organisations recognise the skills and achievements of…
The Howard Government is committed to ensuring that families and carers get the help they deserve with the one-off bonus payments, the Minister for Family…
A report in today’s Sydney Morning Herald has revealed that the Labor Party have backflipped on their promise to guarantee families access to a free…
ACOSS should be demanding that the Labor Party commit to the increase of $600 per child each year in the rate of Family Tax Benefit (A),…
The Minister for Family and Community Services, Senator Kay Patterson, today announced Australian Government funding for five innovative projects which will further enhance continuous improvement…