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Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Larry Anthony, today announced more than $9.8 million in Australian Government funding for 32 services across the country to…
The Minister for Family and Community Services, Senator Kay Patterson, today announced that the new five-year individual agreement under the Commonwealth State Housing Agreement (CSHA)…
Families and children across Australia, particularly in rural and regional areas, will benefit from the improved Child Care Support Program, Minister for Children and Youth…
Mr Swan claimed after Question Time in the House of Representatives today that he had been misrepresented by Government claims that yesterday he had announced…
E&OE My parliamentary colleagues Sha Cordingly, CEO of Volunteering Australia David Gonski, Chairman of Investec Wentworth Pty Ltd, Coca Cola Amatil Ltd, Investec Bank (Australia)…
The Opposition admitted today that top-up payments, which deliver $848 on average to Australian families, would be scrapped under Labor. This is the second blow…
The Minister for Family and Community Services, Senator Kay Patterson, today announced funding of more than $230,000 for two new Indigenous projects which will help…
Today in Question Time the Prime Minister confirmed that around 2 million Australian families eligible for Family Tax Benefit Part A would be $1,200 per…
Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Larry Anthony today announced Australian Government funding of around $8 million to help community-based child care centres upgrade their…
Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Larry Anthony, today encouraged child care providers across Australia to apply for a share of the $12.8 million funding…
Karl Kraus, President, Childcare Queensland Ladies and gentlemen Thank you Karl (Kraus) for your introduction. I’m honoured to be here this morning to open the…
The Australian Government’s National Elimination of Violence Against Women campaign will be launched on Sunday, June 6, the Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for the…
Almost 640 Victorians were convicted of welfare fraud last financial year in a government campaign to stop people cheating the social security system Senator Kay…
The Minister for Family and Community Services, Senator Kay Patterson, today announced $250,000 in Australian Government funding to Mission Australia for an innovative project which…
At the annual No Interest Loans Scheme (NILS) Forum in Melbourne today the Minister for Family and Community Services, Senator Kay Patterson, announced extra funding…
Australian families have been left in limbo by the confusion and contradictory statements in Labor’s ranks over whether they would continue to receive the same…
Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Larry Anthony, today dismissed claims by Labor that services at St Marys Centrelink will diminish. “St Marys Centrelink office will continue…
The Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for the Status of Women, Senator Kay Patterson, today announced the 2005 Personal Safety Survey, which will produce national…
Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Larry Anthony, today announced that more than 540,000 families Australia-wide receiving Child Care Benefit will have their payments increased…
The Minister for Family and Community Services, Senator Kay Patterson, today welcomed the 7000th volunteer walking through the door of Volunteering ACT’s Belconnen Volunteer Resource…
Tomorrow is National Families Day, which marks the culmination of National Families Week. The Minister for Family and Community Services, Senator Kay Patterson, said the…
In last night’s Budget reply speech Opposition Leader, Mark Latham, seemed to forget about women altogether. Despite an earlier doorstop with The Shadow Minister Assisting…
The Australian Government acknowledges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples throughout Australia and their continuing connection to land, water, culture and community. We pay our respects to the Elders both past and present.