Media Releases by The Hon Tanya Plibersek MP
International Women’s Day
International Women’s Day provides all Australians with the opportunity to celebrate the progress made in advancing gender equality and the role of women in our…
Celebrating International Women’s Day at the Cricket World Cup
The Australian Government and Cricket Australia today celebrated International Women’s Day (IWD) at the 2009 Women’s Cricket World Cup match between Australia’s Southern Stars and…
Minister addresses United Nations on gender equality
Tanya Plibersek, is this week leading Australia’s delegation to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women in New York to further demonstrate the…
Australia Strengthens Women’s Rights
Attorney-General, Robert McClelland, and Tanya Plibersek, today welcomed the entry into force in Australia of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of…
$1.9 billion for Queensland Housing
Queensland will receive more than $1.9 billion in additional Commonwealth funding for housing over the next five years. Speaking at the Queensland Shelter Conference in…
Government announces new guidelines for release of surplus Commonwealth land
Lindsay Tanner, Minister for Finance and Deregulation and Tanya Plibersek, and the Status of Women today released new guidelines for the sale of surplus Commonwealth…
First home owners benefit from Government boost
New figures out today show that nearly 30,000 Australians received the Rudd Government’s First Home Owners Boost in its first three-and-a-half months of operation. The…
ABS Housing Finance data shows encouraging signs
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) data released today shows the number of new home loans for owner occupiers increased by 6.4 per cent in…
20,000 Social and Defence Homes – Nation Building Investment
To support jobs and invest in the long term future of the Australian economy and the Australian community the Rudd Government will construct over 20,000…
2009 Australia Day honours list highlights inspirational women
The 2009 Australia Day Honours list acknowledged 199 inspirational Australian women, including two of the three Companions (AC) in the General Division of the Order…
Child Protection Australia 2007- 08 report
The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare Child Protection Australia 2007-08 report shows that the number of children in out-of-home care in Australia rose by…
Government further reduces deeming rate
The Australian Government will further reduce the upper deeming rate from 5 per cent to 4 per cent from 26 January 2009. Tanya Plibersek, Acting…
Australian Government supports alcohol restrictions in Kimberley
The Australian Government welcomes the Western Australian Liquor Licensing Director Barry Sargeant’s proposal to extend tough alcohol restrictions across the Kimberley in WA. We encourage…
Housing Affordability Fund first round shortlist announced
The Australian Government has short listed 33 projects for funding under the first round of local projects for the Housing Affordability Fund. The Housing Affordability…
New figures released for first home owners boost
New figures out today show that more than 5,000 Australians took advantage of the Rudd Government’s First Home Owners Boost in its first full month…
Government launches 12 year plan to reduce homelessness in Australia
The White Paper on Homelessness, The Road Home, was launched today by the Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, and the , Tanya Plibersek. The White Paper…
Australia lodges latest report with the United Nations on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women
The Australian Government has lodged the sixth and seventh reports on the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against…
National rental affordability Scheme round two call for applications
The National Rental Affordability Scheme (NRAS) round two call for applications opens today, with the aim of making more affordable rental homes available sooner for…
Towards a New National Women’s Health Policy
The development of a new National Women’s Health Policy moved a step closer today with the Rudd Government’s release of a paper outlining the aims…
$71.5 million to stem homelessness in Queensland
Tanya Plibersek joined Queensland Housing Minister Robert Schwarten today to announce a new $71.5 million initiative to support Queenslanders experiencing homelessness. “The Federal Government will…
SA leading the field to reduce development application times
South Australia is one of the first states and territories to sign an agreement with the Commonwealth for assistance to get property subdivision applications happening…
First round offers for National Rental Affordability Scheme
The Australian Government is offering incentives to build up to 4,000 new affordable rental properties across the country in the first round of the National…
New homicide figures show need for action plan to reduce domestic violence
New data to be released today by the Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) shows that the proportion of domestic–related homicides in Australia remained constant in…
$10 billion to improve housing affordability and tackle homelessness
COAG has agreed to nearly $10 billion in funding for the National Affordable Housing Agreement (NAHA) and its associated National Partnership payments. These agreements commit…
Amnesty International hands over petition on White Ribbon Day
The Australian Government has welcomed today’s visit to Canberra by National Director of Amnesty International Australia, Claire Mallinson, as part of raising public awareness of…