Women’s Safety Package to Stop the Violence
Media Release by The Hon Christian Porter MPWomen and children in Australia have the right to feel safe and live without fear of violence. Yet, one in six Australian women has experienced…
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Coalition Government delivers yet another payment boost for age pensioners
Media Release by The Hon Scott Morrison MPThe Coalition Government has delivered another increase to Australia’s 3.7 million pensioners, giving single pensioners a $6.80 boost to their fortnightly payments or $176.80 a…
Delivering the NDIS to more than half of eligible Australians
Media Release by Senator the Hon Mitch FifieldThe Commonwealth, New South Wales and Victorian governments today signed the first agreements for the full rollout of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). Today’s…
Delivering the National Disability Insurance Scheme
Media Release by Senator the Hon Mitch FifieldThe Australian Government is committed to delivering the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). The agreements with the New South Wales and Victorian Governments for the…
Labor and the unions wrong again
Media Release by The Hon Scott Morrison MPMinister for Social Services, the Hon. Scott Morrison told Parliament today that the best way to control our welfare expenditure is to get Australians into…
Innovative local solution for NDIS staff in the Blue Mountains and Hawkesbury region
Media Release by Senator the Hon Mitch FifieldNational Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) staff have today started work on the ground in Katoomba and Windsor, following the early commencement of the National Disability…
Applications open for service providers to deliver Coalition Government’s Nanny Pilot
Media Release by The Hon Scott Morrison MPMinister for Social Services, the Hon. Scott Morrison today announced service providers can now apply to deliver the Australian Government’s new Nanny Pilot Programme, which…
Labor short on funding facts
Media Release by Senator the Hon Mitch FifieldThe Coalition Government is 100 per cent committed to delivering and funding the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) in full. The Coalition has supported the…
The Syrian and Iraqi humanitarian crisis
Media Release by The Hon Scott Morrison MPAustralia will resettle an additional 12,000 refugees who are fleeing the conflict in Syria and Iraq. Our focus will be on those most in need…
Coalition government invests $1.7 million to research philanthropic support
Media Release by The Hon Scott Morrison MPThe Coalition Government will invest in research to better understand philanthropic behaviour in Australia, Minister for Social Services, the Hon. Scott Morrison announced today during…
Changes to end child swapping in family day care
Media Release by The Hon Scott Morrison MPMinister for Social Services, the Hon. Scott Morrison today announced new rules to eliminate the widespread abuse of payments through ‘child swapping’ in the family…
NDIS Board Appointment Process
Media Release by Senator the Hon Mitch FifieldIt is important to correct the record on issues related to the Board of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) covered in today’s Australian Financial…
25 years of National Child Protection Week
Media Release by The Hon Scott Morrison MPMinister for Social Services, the Hon. Scott Morrison today presented a national award to an innovative counselling service for promoting child safety and wellbeing. Minister…
Coalition Government tackles illegal offshore wagering
Media Release by The Hon Scott Morrison MPMinister for Social Services, the Hon. Scott Morrison today announced a review of illegal offshore wagering, delivering on the Coalition Government’s election commitment to investigate…
National Disability Insurance Agency Board
Media Release by Senator the Hon Mitch FifieldA process has begun to make appointments to the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) Board, as the current terms of Board members expire on 30…
Labor’s child care scare campaign
Media Release by The Hon Scott Morrison MPReports today that hundreds of thousands of families will be thousands of dollars worse off under the Government’s Jobs for Families package on child care…
Investing $650 million for Australian Disability Enterprise jobs
Media Release by Senator the Hon Mitch FifieldThe Australian Government is delivering employment certainty for up to 20,000 people with disability by committing more than $650 million to Australian Disability Enterprise (ADE)…
New Director for Australian Institute of Family Studies
Media Release by The Hon Scott Morrison MPThe Australian Government has appointed Ms Anne Hollonds as the new Director of the Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS), the government’s principal source of…
Coalition Government offers jobs support for young people with mental illness
Media Release by Senator the Hon Mitch FifieldThe Coalition Government will invest $1 million in a new initiative to help young people with mental illness find jobs. The Coalition Government is committed…
Better start for Indigenous children
Media Release by The Hon Scott Morrison MPThe Minister for Social Services, the Hon Scott Morrison, met with representatives from the Secretariat National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care (SNAICC) last week to…
More people benefitting from the NDIS
Media Release by Senator the Hon Mitch FifieldThe Assistant Minister for Social Services, Senator Mitch Fifield, today released the latest Quarterly Report of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). It shows more…
Apply for new aged care places
Media Release by Senator the Hon Mitch FifieldApplications for the Aged Care Approvals Round (ACAR) opened today, with existing and prospective providers of Australian Government-funded aged care encouraged to apply. There will…
Coalition Government helps protect Adelaide families
Media Release by The Hon Scott Morrison MPMinister for Social Services, the Hon. Scott Morrison today announced that from 1 October 2015, the child protection measure of income management will be introduced…
BSWAT payment scheme begins today
Media Release by Senator the Hon Mitch FifieldThe Business Services Wage Assessment Tool (BSWAT) payment scheme has opened for registrations and applications. Through the scheme, employees of Australian Disability Enterprises (ADEs) who…
Have your say on the future of aged care advocacy services
Media Release by Senator the Hon Mitch FifieldThe Australian Government is calling for feedback on an options paper released as part of its review of Commonwealth Aged Care Advocacy Services. Advocacy services…