Children and families in the Katherine region will have greater access to early intervention programs with the help of $3.3 million in funding over four…
Children and their families in Palmerston and the Tiwi Islands will have better access to support and services thanks to the Howard Government’s $3 million…
A Howard Government grant of $75,300 will continue to help build family and community capacity and early learning opportunities for children in a number of…
Parliamentary Secretary for Children and Youth Affairs, the Hon Sussan Ley, today rejected claims by Opposition spokeswoman for Youth, Tanya Plibersek, of the lack of…
Further access to quality early childhood services and activities for local children and their families will be boosted following one-off funding of $205,000 for the…
Greater access to support services for families in need within the North Western Adelaide community will be possible under the Howard Government’s $3.4 million Communities…
Building on the contributions of previous members to improve outcomes for Australian families and children, the new members of the Australian Council for Children and…
Thirty young Australians have been chosen to represent the views of young people as members of the National Youth Roundtable 2005. The Parliamentary Secretary for…
:Over $30 million for the Emergency Relief (ER) Programme, announced in the 2005-06 Budget, is to be distributed to the existing network of 900 agencies…
The Minister for Family and Community Services, Senator Kay Patterson has today attacked the Queensland Government over its failure to accept an offer by the…
Promoting issues of relevance to young Indigenous Australians will be the focus for the 17 members of the Howard Government’s National Indigenous Youth Leadership Group…
This year’s ACROD 2nd National Ageing and Disability Conference in Hobart brought together experts in the disability and carer fields to discuss issues facing older…
Young children and their parents in Northern Tasmania will benefit from their playgroup owning its own premises with the help of funding from the Australian…
Volunteering in Tasmania will benefit from more than $310,000 in new funding from the Australian Government to acknowledge volunteers and encourage more people to give…
Volunteering in Tasmania will benefit from more than $310,000 in new funding from the Australian Government to acknowledge volunteers and encourage more people to give…
The Minister for Family and Community Services, Senator Kay Patterson today announced the continuation of $390 000 over four years in Howard Government funding for…
The highly successful Violence Against Women, Australia Says Notelevision advertisements will resume later this month as part of a significantly boosted Australian Government campaign to…
Labor are once again scaremongering Australian families by only telling half the story about the cost of child care, following the release yesterday of the…
More families and children are accessing more approved child care services with better qualified workers than ever before, demonstrating the Australian child care sector’s growth.…
People with disabilities will be given a greater variety of employment choices with the opening of a packaging room in Melbourne today. The Minister for…
More than 290,000 self-funded retirees holding Commonwealth Seniors Health Cards (CSHC) are now receiving a $101.40 payment as the second instalment of the Howard Government’s…
Gippslanders were today invited to celebrate new activities and services for children and families in the area, at an event in Lakes Entrance hosted by…
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.