Paid Parental Leave – ABC
Transcript by The Hon Jenny Macklin MPE & O E – PROOF ONLY FRAN KELLY: Well let’s get some more answers now on the Government’s paid parental scheme and how it…
The Hon Jenny Macklin MP
Paid Parental Leave
Transcript by The Hon Jenny Macklin MPALEXANDRA KIRK: Jenny Macklin, the Government’s proposed paid parental leave scheme comes with a means test – $150,000 for the primary carer. It’s a figure…
$4.4 million for parenting website
Media Release by The Hon Jenny Macklin MPThe Raising Children website will be expanded to include parenting information on pre-teen and teenage years with the help of a $4.4 million Australian Government…
Rudd Government to Introduce Paid Parental Leave
Media Release by The Hon Jenny Macklin MPThe Rudd Government will deliver an historic Paid Parental Leave (PPL) scheme to support Australian families and prepare Australia for the economic and social challenges…
Nation Building Economic Stimulus Plan supporting construction jobs in Western Australia
Media Release by The Hon Jenny Macklin MPThe Australian and Western Australian Governments today announced that construction is underway on the repairs and maintenance component of the Rudd Government’s Nation Building Economic…
Removal of Asbestos at Areyonga
Media Release by The Hon Jenny Macklin MPAsbestos removalists, McMahon Services, this week began work on removing asbestos containing debris in the remote community of Areyonga in the Northern Territory. In April,…
$90,000 for Youth Insearch
Media Release by The Hon Jenny Macklin MPCounselling and support services for vulnerable youth will be boosted in New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria with a $90,000 Australian Government grant to Youth…
Same-sex reform education campaign
Media Release by The Hon Jenny Macklin MPThe Australian Government will provide $450,000 for a community education campaign to inform same-sex couples about implications of recent reforms to legislation, which enable same-sex…
$125 million Alice Springs Transformation Plan
Media Release by The Hon Jenny Macklin MPThe Australian and Northern Territory Governments have written to Tangentyere Council with a significantly expanded offer of more than $125 million for housing, infrastructure and…
Carers – ABC Radio National
Transcript by The Hon Jenny Macklin MP*** E & OE – Proof only *** JENNY MACKLIN:…just listening to some of the people on your program this morning and having read some…
National Framework for Protecting Australia’s Children
Media Release by The Hon Jenny Macklin MPThe Australian Government is providing $61.6 million over four years to help protect Australia’s vulnerable children from child abuse and neglect under the National Framework…
$178 million jobs and housing bonanza for Queensland
Media Release by The Hon Jenny Macklin MPWork is underway on the biggest ever investment in social housing infrastructure since the Chifley era – the first phase of which will see the…
Australian Government extends support for Victorians affected by bushfires
Media Release by The Hon Jenny Macklin MPEmployees, farmers and small business operators affected by the Victorian bushfires will continue to receive financial support from the Australian Government’s Income Recovery Subsidy, which…
Launch of the ARACY Report: Inverting the pyramid: Enhancing systems for protecting children
Transcript by The Hon Jenny Macklin MP*** CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY *** JENNY MACKLIN: I am very pleased to be here with Professor Fiona Stanley to launch Inverting the Pyramid enhancing systems…
Launch of ARACY Report – Inverting the Pyramid: Enhancing Systems for Protecting Children
Speech by The Hon Jenny Macklin MP*** Check Against Delivery *** First, I would like to acknowledge the elders past and present of the Kulin Nations on whose lands we meet.…
$1.9 million to tackle child abuse
Media Release by The Hon Jenny Macklin MPThe Australian Government will provide $1.9 million in immediate funding to key non-government organisations for projects aimed at preventing child abuse and neglect as well…
Joint initiative supports the sharing of Indigenous Culture
Media Release by The Hon Jenny Macklin MPA new cultural centre, funded through a partnership between the Australian and Queensland governments and the Hope Vale Community Learning Centre, will boost support for…
Town camp leases, Income Management and Welfare for School
Transcript by The Hon Jenny Macklin MPJENNY MACKLIN: Thanks everyone for being here today, and I am very pleased to be here with my Federal Ministerial colleague, Warren Snowdon, and the…
Keeping Indigenous culture strong for the future
Media Release by The Hon Jenny Macklin MPThe Australian Government has taken the first steps towards establishing a national Indigenous Cultural Education and Knowledge Centre, one of the ideas to emerge from…
Queensland Family Responsibilities Commission reports positive results
Media Release by The Hon Jenny Macklin MPThe Queensland Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnerships Desley Boyle and Federal Minister for Indigenous Affairs Jenny Macklin said early evidence from the…
Family Relationship Services, Income Management – Doorstop, WA Anglicare
Transcript by The Hon Jenny Macklin MPE & O E – PROOF ONLY Subject: Family relationship services, income management IAN CARTER: Can I begin by acknowledging the Noongar people as the…
Town Camps
Transcript by The Hon Jenny Macklin MPROHAN BARWICK: Yesterday the Federal Government insisted that the old scattergun approach to Indigenous affairs hasn’t worked and that something different was needed. They announced…
Newcastle job seekers eye Defence Force career
Media Release by The Hon Jenny Macklin MPTwenty-one Indigenous job seekers in the Newcastle region are a step closer to a career with the Australian Defence Forces after graduating today from an…
$100 Million for Family Relationship Services
Media Release by The Hon Jenny Macklin MPMinister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, Jenny Macklin, and Attorney-General, Robert McClelland, today announced the Government would invest more than $100 million…
Hostel accommodation for Indigenous trainees and apprentices in WA
Media Release by The Hon Jenny Macklin MPBurks Park, four kilometres from the town of Halls Creek, will be the site for the first hostel to accommodate up to 24 young Indigenous…