***Check against delivery*** Earlier this year, back in May, leaders of the corporate and indigenous community gathered at Darling Harbour for the Supply Nation Gala…
E&OE RAF EPSTEIN: Leader of the party and the country for six years and what do you get remembered for? A terrible rendition of Suspicious…
E&OE HELEN DALLEY: Another tranche of the anti-terror legislation, the national security legislation, which strips dual nationals of their Australian citizenship. Will that be passed…
Thank you Kieran, and thank you Auntie Jannette for your welcome to country. Thank you Tim for your beautiful rendition of You Raise Me Up.…
A Deloitte Access Economics evaluation into Place-Based Income Management is showing strong results for participants. Overall 85.5 per cent of people on income management voluntarily…
E&OE ALAN TUDGE: I’m very pleased to be here joined by my federal colleague Melissa Price as well as Terry Redman, the State Minister and…
E&OE JOHN MCGLUE: When does it start and what does it mean for the people of Kununurra and Wyndham who receive welfare payments right now?…
Kununurra and Wyndham in the East Kimberley will become the second trial site for the Welfare Debit Card. The introduction of the card will be…
E&OE… ALAN TUDGE: G’day Peter. PETER VAN ONSELEN: I’ve got to ask you about something. The last time we spoke you gave a passionate defence…
E&OE… TOM TILLEY: Alan Tudge, long time no speak. Thank you for joining us again. ALAN TUDGE: G’Day Tom, great to be with you. TOM…
E&OE MARIUS BENSON: Alan Tudge, good morning. ALAN TUDGE: Good morning Marius. MARIUS BENSON: It’s not a new point being made by ACOSS but it’s…
E&OE RAFAEL EPSTEIN: Alan Tudge is the Assistant Minister to the Prime Minister. He is the Member for Aston. Oh the Aston by-election. He owns…
E&OE PETER VAN ONSELEN: I am joined now in Melbourne by the Assistant Social Services Minister Alan Tudge. Thanks very much for being there. ALAN…
E&OE DAVID LIPSON: Alan Tudge, I know you’ve been working very hard on the welfare card for indigenous communities, just trialling this card. How are…
E&OE ALAN TUDGE: It’s been revealed that the costs of scrapping the East-West Link project has blown out to $861 million — $221 million more…
E&OE. Senator Fierravanti-Wells: I’m pleased to be here with Paris Aristotle. There has just been a meeting of the Refugee Resettlement Advisory Council, talking not…
E&OE JON FAINE: Mr Tudge good morning to you. ALAN TUDGE: Good morning Jon. JON FAINE: What’s the decision that the Government has taken on…
E&OE ALAN TUDGE: As you’d be aware, the Senate has just passed the Welfare Debit Card trial legislation. It was passed with the support of…
E&OE STEVE PRICE: Evening to you Minister. ALAN TUDGE: G’day Steve. ANDREW BOLT: Alan, this is a really interesting proposal. You get your welfare card…
E&OE… JOHN MCGLUE: Your legislation is being debated in the Senate today and even if it gets through, you have this hitch with Halls Creek…
Today the Social Security Legislation Amendment (Debit Card Trial) Bill 2015, passed the Senate. This is a watershed moment in how we deliver welfare. The…
E&OE… PATRICIA KARVELAS: Firstly if I can just ask you, as an Assistant Minister to the Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull’s first question in Question Time…
The Senate Community Affairs Committee has recommended that the Welfare Debit Card legislation be passed.I welcome this recommendation and ask that Labor now support the…
E&OE DAVID SPEERS: Let’s talk about the plan first before we get to where the legislation is going to go tonight. So eighty per cent…
E&OE GREG JENNET: Alan Tudge your Healthy Welfare Card trial legislation is due to be debated by the Senate today. What’s your expectation? Will it…