Young children and their parents in Northern Tasmania will benefit from their playgroup owning its own premises with the help of funding from the Australian…
Volunteering in Tasmania will benefit from more than $310,000 in new funding from the Australian Government to acknowledge volunteers and encourage more people to give…
Volunteering in Tasmania will benefit from more than $310,000 in new funding from the Australian Government to acknowledge volunteers and encourage more people to give…
The Minister for Family and Community Services, Senator Kay Patterson today announced the continuation of $390 000 over four years in Howard Government funding for…
The Howard Government is saddened by the horrific events, which transpired in London on the morning of 7 July 2005. The Minister for Family and…
E&OE Kelvin Spiller, CEO, Endeavour Foundation Peter Short, Chair, Endeavour Foundation Board of Directors Other members of the Endeavour Board Distinguished guests Ladies and Gentlemen…
People who are blind or visually impaired will now have better access to blockbuster movies on DVDs such as Million Dollar Baby and Hotel Rwanda,…
E&OE Ladies and gentlemen Introduction Thank you, Fiona Sharkie for your introduction. I would first like thank Joy for her welcome on behalf of the…
The highly successful Violence Against Women, Australia Says Notelevision advertisements will resume later this month as part of a significantly boosted Australian Government campaign to…
Labor are once again scaremongering Australian families by only telling half the story about the cost of child care, following the release yesterday of the…
More families and children are accessing more approved child care services with better qualified workers than ever before, demonstrating the Australian child care sector’s growth.…
People with disabilities will be given a greater variety of employment choices with the opening of a packaging room in Melbourne today. The Minister for…
More than 290,000 self-funded retirees holding Commonwealth Seniors Health Cards (CSHC) are now receiving a $101.40 payment as the second instalment of the Howard Government’s…
Gippslanders were today invited to celebrate new activities and services for children and families in the area, at an event in Lakes Entrance hosted by…
About 900,000 part-pension recipients may get pension rate increases of up to $12.00 a fortnight from 1 July following the annual indexation of social security…
A new Social Security Agreement between Australian and Belgium will commence on 1 July 2005. The Minister for Family and Community Services, Senator Kay Patterson,…
All Australian States and Territories have now accepted the Howard Government’s offer of an extension of the current Supported Accommodation Assistance Program (SAAP IV), for…
The Government today tabled its response to the watershed report of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Family and Community Affairs on child custody,…
Extra assistance for Australian parents returning to work following the birth of a child and the extension of Maternity Payment for adopted children will now…
E&OE My State parliamentary colleagues Anne Glover AO, President NIFTEY SA Ms Stephanie Page, Executive Director, Early Childhood Services, Department of Education and Children’s Services…
Indigenous South Australians will be helped to take action against family violence and child abuse in their own communities thanks to three major projects worth…
Twenty-four early childhood services across Australia will be boosted to provide parental advice on the availability of other social support services with the help of…
People who are blind, or visually impaired, will now have better access to a wide range of information through the extension of an innovative system…
A ‘Bilby Bus’, which provides specialised mobile playgroups to families in caravan parks and housing estates in metropolitan Adelaide, will receive an extra $81,000 in…
The Howard Government is delivering its Budget commitment to assist parents with child care with moves to allocate 15,000 new Outside School Hours Care (OSHC)…