Senator the Hon Amanda Vanstone

WA Government Fails People With Disabilities

Media Release by Senator the Hon Amanda Vanstone

Ms Sheila McHale, the Western Australian Disabilities Minister, is failing people with disabilities in Western Australia by choosing to play politics rather than committing to…

ACT Government Fails People With Disabilities

Media Release by Senator the Hon Amanda Vanstone

Mr Jon Stanhope, the ACT Disabilities Minister, is failing people with disabilities in the ACT by choosing to play politics rather than committing to a…

Victorian Government Fails People With Disabilities

Media Release by Senator the Hon Amanda Vanstone

Ms Bronwyn Pike, the Victorian Disabilities Minister, is failing people with disabilities in Victoria by choosing to play politics rather than committing to a new…

NSW Government Fails People With Disabilities

Media Release by Senator the Hon Amanda Vanstone

Ms Carmel Tebbutt, the New South Wales Disabilities Minister, is failing people with disabilities in New South Wales by choosing to play politics rather than…

Llewellyn Wrong on Disability Funding

Media Release by Senator the Hon Amanda Vanstone

Mr David Llewellyn, the Tasmanian Disabilities Minister, is dead wrong when he asserts that the Commonwealth’s offer for the next Commonwealth State and Territory Disability…

NT Government Fails People With Disabilities

Media Release by Senator the Hon Amanda Vanstone

Ms Jane Aagaard, the Northern Territory Disabilities Minister, is failing people with disabilities in the Northern Territory by choosing to play politics rather than committing…

SA Government fails people with disabilities

Media Release by Senator the Hon Amanda Vanstone

Ms Stephanie Key, the South Australian Disabilities Minister, is failing people with disabilities in South Australia by choosing to play politics rather than committing to…

Boost to pension and adult benefit rates

Media Release by Senator the Hon Amanda Vanstone

Over 3.9 million pensioners and adults receiving income support will benefit from a rise in pension and adult benefit rates from 20 September 2002. The…

States Reluctant To Commit to Extra Disability Funding

Media Release by Senator the Hon Amanda Vanstone

Today I have again written to the State and Territory Disability Ministers asking them to outline their funding commitments for a third five-year Commonwealth State…

PM’s Employer of the Year Awards – Victoria

Media Release by Senator the Hon Amanda Vanstone

I want to congratulate the state and territory winners of the 2001 Prime Minister’s Employer of the Year Awards. All of the winners have shown…

PM’s Employer of the Year Awards – Tasmania

Media Release by Senator the Hon Amanda Vanstone

I want to congratulate the state and territory winners of the 2001 Prime Minister’s Employer of the Year Awards. All of the winners have shown…

PM’s Employer of the Year Awards – ACT

Media Release by Senator the Hon Amanda Vanstone

I want to congratulate the state and territory winners of the 2001 Prime Minister’s Employer of the Year Awards. All of the winners have shown…

Welfare Cheat Taken to the Cleaners

Media Release by Senator the Hon Amanda Vanstone

A tip-off that was then followed up by a quality Centrelink investigation has led to the sentencing of a Newcastle woman for defrauding the Commonwealth…

ACOSS inadvertently misleads

Media Release by Senator the Hon Amanda Vanstone

ACOSS should have checked its figures before making embarrassing claims about increases in breaches in today’s media. The facts are that on ACOSS’s own estimate…

NSW Short-Changes Disability Services $111m In 2001-02

Media Release by Senator the Hon Amanda Vanstone

Disabled people in New South Wales are being forced to go without support services as a result of the NSW Government’s inept management of funding…

Community and Business Getting Together

Media Release by Senator the Hon Amanda Vanstone

I am pleased to acknowledge the release of the report, ‘Mutual Benefit – Community and Business Getting Together’ that focuses on partnerships in the disability…

Families Want Long Term Security

Media Release by Senator the Hon Amanda Vanstone

“Like generations of parents before them, parents today want to give their children more than they had,” Senator Vanstone said today. For people who grew…

Fraudster’s evasive efforts futile

Media Release by Senator the Hon Amanda Vanstone

A Tasmanian man who tried to evade a summons to appear in court by faking a move interstate was sentenced to 10 months jail in…