Poverty summits and setting targets are no substitute for strong growth in jobs and programs aimed at tackling the causes of financial hardship and poverty,…
The Minister for Family and Community Services, Senator Kay Patterson, today called on the States and Territories to spend more of their record gambling profits…
Labor’s call for poverty summits and setting targets is no substitute for strong economic growth and programs targeted at tackling the causes of hardship, the…
Disability organisations are eligible to apply for up to $225,000 in funding to enable people with a disability to attend conferences in Australia the Minister…
Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Larry Anthony, today said that men going through separation are more likely to seek help than they were just…
Opposition spokesman on family and community services, Wayne Swan, has once again stooped to blatant scaremongering by claiming that the Government will force pensioners to…
The Labor Party wants to make Australian families tax agents under a heavy-handed plan to require people to reconcile their Family Tax Benefit payments every…
Labor’s child care promises have reached a new high and have left them with only two options – to raise taxes or go into debt,…
Older Australians can receive a tax-free bonus of up to $27,666 over and above their age pension if they choose to stay longer in the…
Women’s wages have grown three times faster under the Coalition Government than under Labor, the Minister Assisting the Prime Minister on the Status of Women,…
The Australian Government will provide $95,000 in sponsorship for a national sexual assault conference to be held in Melbourne in September, Senator Kay Patterson, Minister…
About 60,000 people every fortnight have more money in their pockets – more than $500 in some cases – because they are able to keep…
Given the opportunity to distance himself from the economic mismanagement of the previous Labor Government and prove that Labor under Latham had learned some lessons…
Shadow Minister for Family and Community Services, Wayne Swan, today picked a new fight with Labor Leader, Mark Latham, over child care workers wages, Minister…
Other than Mark Latham’s Reading Aloud to children policy, the Labor Party has not released one single policy initiative in Wayne Swan’s Family and Community…
Lifeline will receive $500,000 funding to help assist victims of domestic violence Senator Kay Patterson, Minister Assisting the Prime Minister on the Status of Women,…
Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Larry Anthony, today welcomed the announcement by the Prime Minister of more than $1.5 million for 16 new projects…
Wayne Swan’s statement today regarding the Australian Government’s Stronger Families and Communities Strategy is yet another example of Labor flip flop politics. At the start…
Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Larry Anthony, today announced an extra $300,000 in Australian Government funding for a project helping children and youth organisations…
From tonight, some of Canberra’s landmarks on Lake Burley Griffin will glow with purple in celebration of International Women’s Day on 8 March. The High…
Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Larry Anthony, today announced the 50 young Australians chosen to be members of the National Youth Roundtable 2004. Mr…
The Minister for Family and Community Services, Senator Kay Patterson, today called on the Labor Party to pass vital reforms which would assist people with…
The Minister for Family and Community Services, Senator Kay Patterson, today announced new deeming rates to apply to pension and allowance payments from 20 March…
The Minister for Family and Community Services, Senator Kay Patterson, today welcomed the launch of the Government’s Statement “A more flexible and adaptable retirement income…
The Minister for Family and Community Services, Senator Kay Patterson, today announced that the popular Centrepay ‘No Interest Loan Scheme’ (NILS) pilot had been extended…