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)…
The Howard Government is fed up with seeing the Australian Labor Party’s hypocrisy over the Disability Support Pension (DSP). Senator Patterson said a report in…
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)…
The Minister for Family and Community Services, Senator Kay Patterson, today announced funding of over $570,000 for a research project into philanthropy in Australia. Opening…
Labor’s housing policy released today showed a continued lack of financial credibility by claiming that they could deliver 11,350 new homes for $650 million, an…
Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Larry Anthony, today released the Parenting Information Project report prepared by the Centre for Community Child Health on the…
Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Larry Anthony, today announced that the Australian Government is calling for applications from interested organisations to develop and deliver…
Queensland families are set to benefit from an additional 12,960 child care places to help them with the care of their children before and after…
Senator Kay Patterson, Minister for Family and Community Services, today announced that state and territory governments had agreed at the Ministerial Council on Gambling meeting…
The Minister for Family and Community Services, Senator Kay Patterson, today reminded families that an administrative scheme will be established to cover families who are…
The Labor Party has misused figures to try and score cheap political points on the number of long-term unemployed people, the Minister for Family and…
The Minister for Family and Community Services, Senator Kay Patterson, today announced that the Social Security Agreement between Australia and the Republic of Croatia came…
The Minister for Family and Community Services, Senator Kay Patterson, today announced that the Social Security Agreement between Australia and Chile came into effect on…
The Minister for Family and Community Services, Kay Patterson, today announced increases in funding to the Australian Government’s highly successful Personal Support Programme (PSP). “The…
The Minister for Family and Community Services, Senator Kay Patterson, was today joined at Centrelink’s Ringwood Customer Service Centre by 95 year-old Mrs Alice Berry…
Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Larry Anthony, today said nominations are open for the 2005 Young Australian of the Year Awards. “The Awards present…
Around 2 million families have been paid their $600 per child one-off bonus according to the eligibility criteria set out in legislation. There have been…
Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Larry Anthony welcomed today’s announcement by the Prime Minister of a $116 million package over four years to address…
About two million Australian families will receive nearly an extra quarter of a billion dollars in Family Tax Benefit payments from July 1 to assist…
Title: Labor tells families how to spend their money but refuses to release Family Policy Article Date: 27/06/2004 Page Content 1:The Labor Party is only…
The Minister for Family and Community Services, Senator Kay Patterson, called on the Bracks government to follow South Australia’s lead and give Victoria’s 70,000 self-funded…
More than 900 cases of welfare fraud in NSW were convicted last financial year, as part of the Australian Government’s ongoing efforts to keep the…
The Australian Government’s commitment to keeping the social security system fair and honest has seen 598 Queenslanders convicted of welfare fraud in the last financial…
In addition to the tax exempt status that playgroups already enjoy, from today Playgroup Australia and its affiliated state associations will also be granted deductible…
The time has come for Labor to put party politics aside and support the Australian Government’s elimination of violence against women campaign, Violence Against Women.…