Minister for Children and Youth Affairs today announced the communities set to benefit from the Australian Government’s Communities for Children initiative – a $110 million…
The number of people receiving unemployment benefits in May has fallen to its lowest level in 13 years. The Minister for Family and Community Services,…
The Minister for Family and Community Services, Senator Kay Patterson, and Federal Member for Leichhardt, Warren Entsch, announced today a funding package of $132,770 for…
Centrelink customers who are receiving taxpayer assistance have a responsibility and are required to tell Centrelink if their financial circumstances change. The Pensioner overpayments that…
The Minister for Family and Community Services, Senator Kay Patterson, today visited Nundah House to discuss the issues surrounding homeless young people in Brisbane. Nundah…
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…
Young people will be the key focus of a new $20 million, national campaign – Violence Against Women. Australia Says NO – against domestic violence…
The Howard Government will guarantee that the real value of the $600 per child increase in the rate of Family Tax Benefit Part A is…
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…
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…
Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Larry Anthony, today said that the future for the child care industry in Queensland looked very bright – but…
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…