I want to congratulate Acumen Alliance and Marymead Child and Family Care Centre, who have won the ACT Medium Business 2002 Prime Minister’s Award for…
I want to congratulate DHL Worldwide Express and JJ Cahill Memorial High School for winning the NSW State Award in the Large Business category of…
I want to congratulate the two Tasmanian partnerships that have won State Awards in the 2002 Prime Minister’s Awards for Excellence in Community Business Partnerships.…
I want to congratulate the three South Australian partnerships that have won Prime Minister’s Awards for Excellence in Community Business Partnerships. Burns for Blinds and…
I want to congratulate the three Queensland partnerships that have won State awards in the 2002 Prime Minister’s Awards for Excellence in Community Business Partnerships.…
I want to congratulate the four Victorian partnerships that have won awards in the 2002 Prime Minister’s Awards for Excellence in Community Business Partnerships. A…
State and Territory Disability Ministers appear to be deliberately holding up settling a third Commonwealth State and Territory Disability Agreement (CSTDA). In doing so, the…
I want to congratulate the Midland Brick Company and Hills Community Support Group who have won the WA State Award in the Large Business Category…
The combined efforts of Alcan Gove, YBE Aboriginal enterprises, and a number of indigenous organisations and clans in north-east Arnhem Land have created YNOTS, a…
A new web site is now online to give Bali victims and their families a central point of information that contains all of the financial…
The Howard Government is committed to helping Australians affected by the Bali bombings and will cover all reasonable expenses associated with the tragedy for victims…
At today’s meeting with State and Territory Housing Ministers in Hobart I issued a challenge to the State and Territory governments by offering a new,…
I am pleased to announce that Centacare has been chosen to deliver early intervention services designed to prevent Indigenous family homelessness in the Salisbury area.Indigenous…
Carers Week will be celebrated from 20-26 October 2002. The theme is ‘Are You a Family Carer?’ with the focus being on reaching hidden carers…
Centrelink has extended the operating hours of its Bali Disaster hotline to 24 hour per day to ensure victims and their families get speedy access…
Centrelink has been recognised as one of Australia’s leading organisations, outdoing the toughest private sector competition in the nation to win the coveted Teleservices Centre…
If today’s Communique represents a genuine start by the States and Territories to detail their five year funding commitments, then I welcome it. The Commonwealth…
Today I am launching an important $500,000 national campaign to increase community awareness of domestic violence in non-English speaking background (NESB) communities. Starting this week,…
Many Australians on income support will receive even more personalised services with the launch of Centrelink’s Personal Advisers, as part of the Australians Working Together…
Following the success of the inaugural national Australian Women SpeakConference held in Canberra in August 2001, I am pleased to announce that a second conference…
Wayne Swan’s criticism of the Family Tax Benefit changes demonstrates that he completely misunderstands what we are planning to do. He either hasn’t properly read…
The Family Tax Benefit changes announced yesterday give families greater choice over how they receive their payments. Families’ entitlements have not been changed. No one…
The Government has listened to Australian families who have asked for more flexibility in the Family Tax Benefit (FTB) and Child Care Benefit (CCB) system.…
Centrelink has cancelled, suspended or reduced the welfare payments of 25 people following a swoop on taxi drivers completed in Brisbane this morning. The two-day…
Ms Judy Spence, the Queensland Disabilities Minister, is failing people with disabilities in Queensland by choosing to play politics rather than committing to a new…