Parents Tell Government How To Help
Media Release by The Hon Larry Anthony MPMinister for Children and Youth Affairs, Larry Anthony today announced $3.2 million for a range of projects that will inform the Australian Government how it…
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Helping families at risk
Media Release by The Hon Larry Anthony MPMinister for Children and Youth Affairs, Larry Anthony, today released an evaluation report on the Australian Government’s Early Intervention Parenting Program that highlights its success…
Who’s Right? Mr Latham Or Mr Swan?
Media Release by Senator the Hon Kay PattersonThe Minister for Family and Community Services, Senator Kay Patterson, said the Opposition Leader Mark Latham is at odds with his Family and Community Services…
Latham Endorses Government’s Strategy
Media Release by The Hon Larry Anthony MPMark Latham’s speech to the Press Club today was a glowing endorsement of the Government’s highly successful Stronger Families and Communities Strategy and focus on…
Mr Swan’s Negativity Does Nothing To Help Australian Families
Media Release by Senator the Hon Kay PattersonCompared with the same time last year some 12 per cent more families have received a top-up payment and 14 per cent fewer families have…
Prevention And Early Intervention The Key To Reducing Family Homelessness
Media Release by Senator the Hon Kay PattersonAn independent report on the Family Homelessness Prevention Pilot shows that 90 per cent of families who were assisted by the targeted program stayed in…
Labor called on to guarantee $800 family top-up payments
Media Release by Senator the Hon Kay PattersonThe Minister for Family and Community Services, Senator Kay Patterson, has called on the Labor Party to guarantee top-up payments, which deliver around $800 a…
Middle-aged working households hold wealth
Media Release by Senator the Hon Kay PattersonWealth in Australia is mainly held by middle-aged working people who are saving for their retirement, according to a new major survey on wealth and…
South Australia found to have complied with housing funding rules
Media Release by Senator the Hon Kay PattersonThe Minister for Family and Community Services, Senator Kay Patterson, said today that her Department had found that South Australia had complied with the formal…
Howard Government’s record support for families
Media Release by Senator the Hon Kay PattersonThe Howard Government has supported and strengthened families with a record $19 billion of annual assistance to help families with the cost of raising their…
Parental Income Test Linking
Media Release by The Hon Larry Anthony MPMinister for Children and Youth Affairs, Larry Anthony, today announced that the Australian Government will waive a large number of Youth Allowance overpayments that have…
January Unemployment Benefit Claims Fall To 13-Year Low
Media Release by Senator the Hon Kay PattersonStrong economic growth and job opportunities have resulted in a 5.5% fall in the number of people claiming unemployment benefits in the year to January…
Increased support for jobseekers with a disability
Media Release by Senator the Hon Kay PattersonThe Australian Government will increase assistance for people who have a disability to participate in community life and paid work, the Minister for Family and…
Supporting and strengthening Australian families
Media Release by Senator the Hon Kay PattersonThe Howard Government has supported and strengthened families with a record $19 billion of annual assistance to help families with the cost of raising their…
Revised Government Offer to Bring Down the Cost of Interstate Travel for Seniors
Media Release by Senator the Hon Kay PattersonThe Minister for Family and Community Services, Senator Kay Patterson, today called on state and territory governments to accept a revised Australian Government offer that…
Growing Up in Australia Study Launched
Media Release by Senator the Hon Kay PattersonNinety-six per cent of four-year-olds are read to by a family member at least once a week, preliminary findings of a new major study have…
Australian Youth get Reconnected with their families
Media Release by The Hon Larry Anthony MPMinister for Children and Youth Affairs, Larry Anthony, today welcomed the release of the final report that highlights the success of the Australian Government’s youth…
Run with It – National Youth Week 2004
Media Release by The Hon Larry Anthony MPMinister for Children and Youth Affairs, Larry Anthony has officially launched the National Youth Week 2004 websiteand the national talent competitions giving young Australians the…
Labor to cut $47 million from youth services
Media Release by The Hon Larry Anthony MPLeader of the Opposition, Mark Latham has announced that a Labor Government would axe funding to essential youth services and redirect it to fund public…
Australian Government continues support for volunteers
Media Release by The Hon Larry Anthony MPMinister for Children and Youth Affairs, Larry Anthony, today announced a new round of the Volunteer Small Equipment Grants and $100,000 to support volunteering in…
Reports expose Beattie doing child protection on the cheap
Media Release by The Hon Larry Anthony MPTwo authoritative reports released recently clearly outline serious shortfalls in the Queensland child protection system, Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Larry Anthony, said today.…
Stamp Duty Relief To Boost Housing Affordability
Media Release by Senator the Hon Kay PattersonThe Minister for Family and Community Services, Senator Kay Patterson, today called on States and Territories to direct some of their windfall stamp duty gains…
Labor’s child care promise to cost $3 billion
Media Release by The Hon Larry Anthony MPLabor Party’s policy to provide free child care to all children under the age of five years and take over the preschool system is economically…
Government already has $4.4 million mentoring program
Media Release by The Hon Larry Anthony MPMark Latham has again failed to acknowledge the Coalition Government as his inspiration for his Party’s new children and youth policies, Minister for Children and…
Indigenous Communities to Benefit from Extra Funding for Housing
Media Release by Senator the Hon Kay PattersonSouth Australia, Queensland, New South Wales and Western Australia have received additional funding totalling $5.27 million this financial year to improve housing conditions for rural…