The Minister for Social Services, the Hon. Scott Morrison has announced the Government will provide new bridging funding to ensure continuity of front line community…
Minister for Social Services, the Hon. Scott Morrison has today postponed the introduction of changes designed to address ‘child-swapping’ rorts in family day care, which…
Minister for Social Services, the Hon. Scott Morrison and Assistant Minister Senator the Hon. Mitch Fifield have today congratulated best-selling children’s author, Jackie French, who…
Minister for Social Services, the Hon. Scott Morrison and Assistant Minister Senator the Hon. Mitch Fifield have today congratulated best-selling children’s author, Jackie French, who…
E & OE BYNER: Approximately 66,000 elderly and frail Australians were delivered a funding cut by the Abbott Government on the 1st of January according…
Media Release by Senator the Hon Concetta Fierravanti-Wells
The Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Social Services, Senator Concetta Fierravanti-Wells, today paid tribute to Professor Graeme Hugo AO, who has died aged 68.…
E&OE Subjects: Social Services portfolio, National Disability Insurance Scheme, welfare payments, Medicare, Expenditure Review Committee. GRAHAM RICHARDSON: In our Canberra studio is Scott Morrison the…
Media Release by Senator the Hon Concetta Fierravanti-Wells
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Social Services Senator Concetta Fierravanti-Wells today invited registrations for this year’s Harmony Day events. Held on 21 March, Harmony…
The Assistant Minister for Social Services, Senator Mitch Fifield and the Member for Grey, Rowan Ramsey, have today welcomed the release of a report on…
A new National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) office in Murray Bridge, South Australia was officially opened today. Federal Assistant Minister for Social Services Mitch Fifield…
Charlestown residents are the first to benefit from a pilot partnership bringing Medicare and National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) services together. Minister for Human Services…
More than one million Australians will receive a boost to their Australian Government payments from 1 January 2015. Minister for Social Services, the Hon. Scott…
The Department of Social Services has advised applicants of the outcomes of the grant funding rounds announced earlier this year. The Government is committed to…
CURTIS: …something you have been left by your predecessor Kevin Andrews who has announced that funding to some non-government organisations will be axed, is that…
STATES have always had an interest in the building blocks of their societies, namely families. Family formation and stability remain the essential catalysts for intergenerational…
The Australian Government today announced further details of the new Commonwealth Home Support Programme (CHSP), which will begin from 1 July 2015. The CHSP consolidates…
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.