The 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 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…
Mark 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…
South 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…
Senator Kay Patterson, Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for the Status of Women, today congratulated all the recipients of Australia Day Honours, in particular the…
The Minister for Family and Community Services, Senator Kay Patterson, today announced the appointment of nine new members for the third term of the National…
Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Larry Anthony, today announced Australian Government funding of $900,000 for four years for the development of an Early Development…
Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Larry Anthony, and NSW Minister for Community Services, Carmel Tebbutt, today announced the next stage in the Flexible Child…
Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Larry Anthony, today expressed his concern with the growing number of child protection cases being reported in Australia. Child…
Continued strong economic growth has resulted in a 5% fall in the number of people receiving unemployment benefits in the year to December 2003, the…
The Labor Party today revealed they will revert to their old child care policies that would see families receiving less assistance for their child care…
The Australian Government will extend for a further 12 months the assets test exemption to those people on income support whose homes were destroyed in…
The Minister for Family and Community Services, Senator Kay Patterson, today reassured people who receive the Disability Support Pension (DSP) that their payments were not…
More families are receiving maximum levels of assistance and families are able to keep more of each dollar they earn, the Minister for Family and…
Labor will scrap funding for local community grassroots projects that strengthen families and support communities, the Minister for Family and Community Services, Senator Kay Patterson,…
Attorney-General Philip Ruddock and Minister for Family and Community Services, Senator Kay Patterson, today announced Australia has provided a written contribution for inclusion in a…
Australia’s report on actions to end discrimination against women has been lodged with the United Nations. The report is an assessment of Australia’s performance against…
The Minister for Family and Community Services, Senator Kay Patterson, today announced that the Social Security Agreement between Australia and Slovenia will come into effect…
The Australian Government welcomes the report released today by the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Family and Community Affairs on the Inquiry into child…
The Minister for Family and Community Services, Senator Kay Patterson, responding to a new report on housing affordability for low-income earners by the Australian Council…
Centrelink’s Data-Matching Program saved Australian taxpayers $139.3 million during the 2002-03 financial year, Minister for Youth and Children’s Affairs, Larry Anthony announced today. The Data-Matching…
The Minister for Family and Community Services, Senator Kay Patterson, today congratulated the five national winners announced last night by the Prime Minister in the…
The Minister for Family and Community Services, Senator Kay Patterson, today said that the ACOSS announcement did not paint a full or accurate picture of…
Centrelink has made special arrangements over Christmas and New Year to ensure customers are not disadvantaged by the holidays, Minister for Children and Youth Affairs,…
Around 390,000 Australian students and young people will receive an increase in their Youth Allowance and Austudy payments from next year, Minister for Children and…