The Australian Government will provide additional financial assistance to West Australians who have been seriously affected by this week’s devastating bushfires. The Government has activated…
Voluntary income management has been expanded across the four Cape York Welfare Reform communities to help people better manage their budgets to meet the costs…
The Doomadgee Sport and Recreation Precinct will be redeveloped with more than $2.5 million Australian and Queensland Government funding. A Police-Citizens Youth Club (PCYC) will…
New figures released by the Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs show that over the last five years the numbers of Australians…
The Rudd Government today announced that at least 50 per cent of new social housing units delivered under the Nation Building Economic Stimulus Plan will…
The Rudd Government will provide the Albany Youth Support Association with $353,000 over the next 18 months to run a new Reconnect homeless intervention service…
Today is the 30th anniversary of the United Nations’ adoption of the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). In…
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The Australian Government has formally handed Maralinga back to its traditional Aboriginal owners, 58 years after the British Nuclear Tests Program made parts of it…
An environmentally-sustainable 15-storey housing block will be built in Waymouth Street as part of a new Commonwealth and State Government project that will both showcase…
The upgrade to the Horn Island Airport will now go ahead following the announcement of an additional $3.1 million in joint Australian and Queensland Government…
The Australian and Tasmanian Governments today announced that Centacare Tasmania will receive a $12 million funding package which will see 78 new housing units built…
Australian families under financial pressure will have access to more than 50 new financial counsellors and an additional 49 emergency relief providers in disadvantaged communities…
The Council of Mayors (SEQ) will streamline development approvals across Councils in the south east with the assistance of $4.75 million in funding from the…
Tanya Plibersek today launched an innovative Gold Coast Housing Company project that will deliver 22 affordable homes at Upper Coomera. Ms Plibersek was joined at…
The Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, Jenny Macklin, today welcomed the appointment of Mick Gooda to the Australian Human Rights Commission…
Indigenous parents living in Northern Territory Emergency Response (NTER) communities have reported that their children are eating more and are healthier, since the introduction of…
To meet the growing demand for volunteers the Australian Government is delivering a $250,000 funding boost to train new volunteers and assist in accreditation of…
To meet the growing demand for volunteers the Australian Government is delivering a $250,000 funding boost to train new volunteers and assist in accreditation of…
The Opposition Shadow Minister for Families, Kevin Andrews, has confirmed that it is Liberal Party policy to remove the means test on the baby bonus…
The Commonwealth and State Government will today announce a $130 million urban renewal project, which will transform the Woodville West area with better housing, new…
The Australian Government is providing nearly $1.5 million worth of grants to support 22,500 volunteer fire-fighting and emergency workers across the country. Of this, New…
The increasing number of women becoming pregnant and having babies will benefit from the Rudd Government’s improved maternity services and support programs. The Australian Institute…
Early intervention services, which draw on kinship ties of Aboriginal people to build strong families and protect children, are being established in the Alice Springs…
Federal Tanya Plibersek and Queensland Member for Townsville Mandy Johnstone today launched a new RentConnect service in Townsville. The expansion of RentConnect – an existing…