Victorian Housing Minister Richard Wynne and Federal Parliamentary Secretary for Bushfire Reconstruction Bill Shorten today paid tribute to a Marysville family for their determination to…
Parliamentary Secretary for Disabilities and Children’s Services, Bill Shorten, today officially opened the Deafness Forum of Australia’s 6th National Deafness Sector Summit, in Sydney. As…
Senator Ursula Stephens, today launched a new report on the viability and sustainability of social enterprise organisations. The report, Financing Social Enterprise: Understanding Needs and…
Parliamentary Secretary for Disabilities and Children’s Services, Bill Shorten, today launched a new brochure to encourage indigenous Australians to access the National Disability Abuse and…
Federal and State Housing Ministers Ms Tanya Plibersek and Mr David Borger today announced a joint Federal, State and Local Government plan to tackle homelessness…
Tanya Plibersek, today inspected a housing project that will deliver 16 new affordable homes in Brisbane’s Victoria Point. Funded through the Rudd Government’s Nation Building…
Indigenous people living with mental illness, grief, and trauma will have greater access to much needed support through new and expanded Australian Government Personal Helpers…
The Australian Government is delivering on its commitment to support people with a mental illness and their carers, with a $32.3 million funding extension for…
Tanya Plibersek today announced that 450 home buyers on the Sunshine Coast would save $26,000 each as a direct result of a new $11.5 million…
Tanya Plibersek and Member for Petrie Yvette D’Ath today visited a new affordable housing project in Brisbane’s northern suburbs that will deliver 48 new homes…
Tanya Plibersek and Member for Longman Jon Sullivan today inspected a new four-bedroom home at Bellmere that has been built using the Rudd Government’s National…
Parliamentary Secretary for Disabilities Bill Shorten has condemned comments made about children with autism on the ‘Good News Week’ program last night, but has commended…
Thought-leader on ethical branding, global development and social entrepreneurship, Jonathan Greenblatt, today encouraged not-for-profit organisations to be more innovative when establishing social enterprises. Speaking at…
The Rudd Government would continue to work for better services for people with disability and to ensure they got fair treatment in the workplace and…
The Minister for Sport Kate Ellis and Parliamentary Secretary for Disabilities Bill Shorten today joined more than 850 athletes to open the ninth National Special…
People under financial pressure in the East Kimberley region will soon have better access to free financial counselling and advice. The Minister for Families, Community…
The Rudd Government is delivering almost $3.5 million in additional emergency relief until 2011 to help families in New South Wales who are at risk…
Parliamentary Secretary for Disabilities Bill Shorten has welcomed a decision by the Australian Human Rights Commission to deny a request from major cinemas chains for…
The Assistant Treasurer, Senator Nick Sherry, and Parliamentary Secretary for Disabilities, Bill Shorten MP, have today released for public consultation the Rudd Government’s draft legislation…
In a meeting today with UNIFEM and its partner, American actress Geena Davis, the Australian Government announced an additional $300,000 to UNIFEM’s Pacific Fund to…
The highly successful Dog Control Program, which has seen over 670 dogs removed from Alice Springs town camps since December 2008, will receive an extra…
An innovative project to help homeless people move from street to home, first developed in New York City, is now underway in inner-city Brisbane. Federal…
Tanya Plibersek today visited a new housing project at Fortitude Valley in inner Brisbane that will deliver 83 new affordable units when completed in early…
People with a severe mental illness in the Swan, Bentley and surrounding regions will continue to have access to intensive, one-on-one support with the Richmond…
Community Services Minister Jenny Macklin, the Assistant Treasurer, Senator Nick Sherry and the Parliamentary Secretary for Disabilities Bill Shorten today welcomed the start of the…