Media Releases by The Hon Jenny Macklin MP
Boost for Youth Activities in Northern Territory
The Australian Government will deliver $2.6 million for 30 youth activity projects aimed at young people living in Indigenous communities in the Northern Territory. The…
Macklin Congratulates Australia Day Award Recipients
The Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, Jenny Macklin, today congratulated Indigenous and non-Indigenous people who were awarded Australia Day honours. “Australia…
$85,000 Boost for Darwin Youth
The Australian Government has committed $85,000 to a youth program of music, arts, craft and theatre activities for around 350 young people. A series of…
Investing In The Early Development Needs Of Our Indigenous Children
The Minister for Education, Julia Gillard and the Minister for Indigenous Affairs, Jenny Macklin today joined Professor Fiona Stanley to launch an innovative project that…
Macklin Meets Northern Territory Emergency Taskforce
The Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, Jenny Macklin, today met with the Northern Territory Emergency Taskforce to discuss the progress of…
Supporting the Wellbeing of Families and Children
Seventy-five new services will open across Australia this year to support the wellbeing of families and children. “I would like to congratulate the organisations selected…
$64.6 million committed to Northern Territory for Indigenous housing
The Australian Government is providing $64.6 million to housing in the Northern Territory in the 2007-08 financial year, through the Aboriginal Rental Housing Program and…
National Indigenous Council
The Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, Jenny Macklin, today thanked the National Indigenous Council and its members for their contribution to…
Income Management to begin in Wadeye
The Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, Jenny Macklin today announced the rollout, saying Wadeye now joined the more than 25 communities…
Australian Government provides funding to extend disability agreement
The Australian Government will provide over $315 million, to be paid fortnightly in advance, to State and Territory Governments to continue services for people with…
Income Management continues to roll out
Income management will commence tomorrow, 7 January 2008 in the Alice Springs Town Camps, Ingerreke and Amoonguna. The Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and…
Rudd and Bligh Governments to Deliver Cape York Welfare Reform
Federal Minister for Indigenous Affairs Jenny Macklin and the Queensland Premier Anna Bligh met today to finalise an historic agreement to work together to help…
Working Together Towards Reconciliation
Real progress on the path towards reconciliation took a step forward today with the first consultations to develop a national apology to the Stolen Generation.…
Building stronger Indigenous communities
Jobs, economic development and training opportunities for Indigenous Australians will be at the core of the Rudd Labor Government’s approach to income support. To meet…
Celebrate International Volunteer Day: December 5
Jenny Macklin and Ursula Stephens today celebrated International Volunteer Day in recognition of the vital contribution volunteers make to communities both here and abroad. International…
Inaugural national disability awards announced
Jenny Macklin and Bill Shorten today congratulated the recipients and finalists of the inaugural National Disability Awards announced last night at a special ceremony in…