Media Releases by The Hon Tanya Plibersek MP
First Stimulus House delivered in NSW
Premier Nathan Rees and Federal Housing Minister Tanya Plibersek today announced that the first home in the country built as part of the Federal Government’s Nation…
Victoria Hits Biggest First Home Boom for Seven Years
Victoria is in the middle of a first home buyer boom with more Victorians purchasing their own homes last month than at any other time…
Nation Building Economic Stimulus Plan supporting construction jobs in Melbourne’s inner north
Federal Housing Minister Tanya Plibersek today announced that over $1 million is being invested to upgrade 224 social housing dwellings in Melbourne’s inner north before the…
Time for action against Domestic Violence
Minister for Housing and the Status of Women, Tanya Plibersek and Victorian Minister for Housing, Richard Wynne today met with members of the Family Violence…
Government launches National Standards for the Primary Prevention of Sexual Assault through Education
The National Association of Services Against Sexual Violence (NASASV) has today taken an important step towards reducing violence against women in Australia with the release…
Rudd Government Opens Sydney City Family Relationship Centre
Attorney-General Robert McClelland and Tanya Plibersek have today officially opened the Sydney City Family Relationship Centre. Mr McClelland said the new Centre provides important advice and…
Nation Building Economic Stimulus Plan supporting construction jobs in Melbourne’s south-east
Federal Housing Minister Tanya Plibersek and Victorian Housing Minister Richard Wynne today visited Melbourne’s south-east, where over $780,000 is being invested to upgrade 128 social housing…
Nation Building Economic Stimulus Plan supporting construction jobs in Melbourne’s outer east
Federal Housing Minister Tanya Plibersek today visited Bayswater North, where over $410,000 is being invested to upgrade 66 social housing dwellings before the end of…
Six Month Extension for First Home Owners Boost
Tanya Plibersek today welcomed the six month extension of the First Home Owners Boost while visiting first home buyers in Sydney’s south west. Extending the…
Maintenance millions for local jobs and homes in Sydney’s Inner West
Federal Housing Minister Tanya Plibersek and NSW Housing Minister David Borger today announced that over $1.4 million is being invested in Sydney’s inner West suburbs…
2009-10 Women’s Budget Statement: Supporting women in a time of economic challenge
The 2009-10 Women’s Budget Statement adopts the theme Supporting Women in a Time of Economic Challenge. Economies across the world are experiencing one of the…
First Home Owner’s Boost Extended
Tonight the Rudd Government announces it will extend the highly successful First Home Owner’s Boost (FHOB) for an extra six months to support more Australian…
Record funding for Housing in 2009-10 Budget
The Australian Government is tackling homelessness and housing affordability with a record $15.3 billion investment in housing programs. Over the next three years the Rudd…
Nation Building Economic Stimulus Plan supporting construction jobs in Western Australia
The 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…
$3.4 million for Champion Lakes Regatta Centre
Anthony Albanese, Minister for Infrastructure and Local Government and Tanya Plibersek, , today announced the Rudd Government would offer $3.4 million for the Stage Two…
First National Rental Affordability Scheme homes open in South Australia
Federal Tanya Plibersek and South Australian Minister for Housing Jennifer Rankine today attended the first official opening of a National Rental Affordability Scheme (NRAS) project…
Housing Affordability Fund delivers for homebuyers in Campbelltown
Tanya Plibersek today announced that a local infrastructure proposal by the South Australian Government Department for Families and Communities which has been offered $250,000 to…
Rudd Government delivers savings for 250 homebuyers in Port Adelaide
Tanya Plibersek and Member for Port Adelaide Mark Butler today announced that a local infrastructure proposal by the City of Charles Sturt will be offered…
$2 million to redevelop Waterloo Youth Facility
Anthony Albanese, Minister for Infrastructure and Local Government and Tanya Plibersek, Member for Sydney, today announced that the Rudd Labor Government would offer $2 million…
ABS Building Approvals Rise for Second Consecutive Month
ABS Building Approvals Figures data released today shows the Rudd Government’s Nation Building Economic Stimulus Plan is continuing to deliver a much-needed boost to jobs…
More than 2100 jobs secured so far as part of massive new investment in Housing
NSW Housing Minister David Borger today announced that more than 2,100 jobs have been secured in NSW in the last three months as a direct…
$178 million jobs and housing bonanza for Queensland
Work is underway on the biggest ever investment in social housing infrastructure since the Chifley era – the first phase of which will see the…
Savings for more than 2,500 homebuyers in Blair
Tanya Plibersek and Member for Blair Shayne Neumann today announced a proposal by the Ipswich City Council has been offered $10 million to bring down…
Time for Action to Reduce Violence Against Women and Children
The Australian Government today released Time for Action, the major report of the National Council to Reduce Violence against Women and their Children. The report…
Ministers call on NSW builders to get involved in social housing construction
Federal Housing Minister Tanya Plibersek and NSW Housing Minister David Borger today called on builders across NSW to get involved in the construction of thousands…