The Minister for Education, Julia Gillard and the Minister for Indigenous Affairs, Jenny Macklin today joined Professor Fiona Stanley to launch an innovative project that…
The Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, Jenny Macklin, today met with the Northern Territory Emergency Taskforce to discuss the progress of…
Seventy-five new services will open across Australia this year to support the wellbeing of families and children. “I would like to congratulate the organisations selected…
The Australian Government is providing $64.6 million to housing in the Northern Territory in the 2007-08 financial year, through the Aboriginal Rental Housing Program and…
The Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, Jenny Macklin, today thanked the National Indigenous Council and its members for their contribution to…
The Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, Jenny Macklin today announced the rollout, saying Wadeye now joined the more than 25 communities…
The Australian Government will provide over $315 million, to be paid fortnightly in advance, to State and Territory Governments to continue services for people with…
The Australian Government will provide over $315 million, to be paid fortnightly in advance, to State and Territory Governments to continue services for people with…
Income management will commence tomorrow, 7 January 2008 in the Alice Springs Town Camps, Ingerreke and Amoonguna. The Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and…
Federal Minister for Indigenous Affairs Jenny Macklin and the Queensland Premier Anna Bligh met today to finalise an historic agreement to work together to help…
Data collected in 2005-06 and released today has found that each night, three quarters of families with children who request crisis accommodation are turned away.…
Real progress on the path towards reconciliation took a step forward today with the first consultations to develop a national apology to the Stolen Generation.…
Jobs, economic development and training opportunities for Indigenous Australians will be at the core of the Rudd Labor Government’s approach to income support. To meet…
Jenny Macklin and Ursula Stephens today celebrated International Volunteer Day in recognition of the vital contribution volunteers make to communities both here and abroad. International…
Jenny Macklin and Bill Shorten today congratulated the recipients and finalists of the inaugural National Disability Awards announced last night at a special ceremony in…
Jenny Macklin and Bill Shorten today congratulated the recipients and finalists of the inaugural National Disability Awards announced last night at a special ceremony in…
Minister for Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, Mal Brough, today announced the successful non-government organisations which will deliver services under the $51 million New…
Ten new regional areas will receive improved disability advocacy services following an announcement today from Minister for Community Services, Senator Nigel Scullion. ‘A national review…
Federal Minister for Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, Mal Brough, today announced two initiatives to support business and employment opportunities for Indigenous people in…
Minister for Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, Mal Brough, today announced $14 million for a new housing and welfare strategy for the Queensland Indigenous…
A series of Australian Government funded workshops will be held in communities across the country to gain a vital insight into the experiences and needs…
In a boost to carers of mental health sufferers, Minister for Community Services Senator Nigel Scullion today announced more than $35 million in funding to…
“With 330,000 working families now having received their Child Care Tax Rebate for 2006-07, it is absolutely clear what the real out of pocket expenses…
Federal Indigenous Affairs Minister Mal Brough said that today’s announcement by Labor on CDEP is just another in a series of backdowns on the NT…
“Jenny Macklin is deliberately misleading the people of the Central Coast and Hunter with her claims about child care costs in the local area,” Minister…