Media Releases
Ambassadors for International Day of People with Disability 2023
The Albanese Labor Government is today naming 11 official Ambassadors for this year’s International Day of People with Disability (IDPwD), highlighting the diverse talents of people with disability across Australia.
Findings of the Disability Royal Commission
The Albanese Labor Government welcomes the final report of the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability.
Extending support for Melbourne Institute’s HILDA survey into Australian families
The Albanese Labor Government is providing $29.5 million to the Melbourne Institute to continue its research into Australian households.
Getting more Australians back into work
The Albanese Government is improving incentives to get more Australians into work.
Boosting opportunity for Australia’s most disadvantaged through social enterprises
The Albanese Government will work with the social enterprise sector to boost labour force participation and economic development in some of the nation’s most disadvantaged communities as a key outcome of the Employment White Paper.
Innovative perpetrator intervention to stop the cycle of violence
The Albanese Labor Government will provide more than $3.1 million over four years to the Tasmanian Government to deliver two trial programs aiming to break the cycle of violence against women and children through new programs focused on perpetrator behaviour.
Food relief facility for Tasmanians doing it tough
The Albanese Labor Government is delivering for Tasmanians in need of long-term food relief options through support to Loaves and Fishes to acquire a warehouse in Devonport.
Opening of Safe Places Inclusion Round
The Albanese Labor Government is committed to ending violence against women and children and ensuring they have a safe place to go when escaping violence.
Supporting victims and survivors of sexual violence - piloting new legal services models
The Albanese Labor Government will fund three new pilot programs aimed at improving our justice system for sexual violence victims and survivors.
Government demands dating sites do better by Australians
The Albanese Labor Government has made the request to online dating companies in writing as an action following the National Roundtable on Online Dating Safety.
Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence Commission to facilitate conversation on measuring the impact of the National Plan to End Violence Against Women and Children 2022-2032
The Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence Commission, in partnership with ANROWS, will today convene the first in a series of roundtables bringing together experts from across the country to advance the goal of ending violence against women and children in one generation.
Boosting support for Australians with autism
The Albanese Labor Government is supporting Australians with autism by investing in their future with an extension of funding for Autism CRC totalling $4 million in 2023-24.
Better meeting the needs of Australians with disability
The Albanese Labor Government will strengthen supports for people with disability outside the National Disability Insurance Scheme and more easily fund services through the introduction of the Disability Services and Inclusion Bill 2023 to Parliament today.
Legislation to ban credit cards for online gambling
Australians at risk of online gambling harm will be better protected through a ban on credit card payments and fines of up to $234,750 for companies who don’t enforce it, through legislation to be introduced by the Albanese Labor Government to Parliament today.
A stronger, more diverse and independent community sector
The Albanese Labor Government is inviting submissions seeking innovative approaches to community sector grant funding.
Open access to evidence on family, domestic and sexual violence
From today, anyone around the world will be able to access an Australian-led data initiative aimed at reducing the rates of family, domestic and sexual violence
New Chair for AIHW as wellbeing report shows pandemic effects linger
The Government has appointed former Minister for Health and current Chair of VicHealth, Nicola Roxon, as the new Chair of the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW), as the Institute’s two-yearly report on the wellbeing of Australia shows a mixed recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Millions of Australians set to receive boost to their payments
More than 5.5 million Australians will receive an increase to their income support payments and pensions when indexation takes effect in two weeks’ time on 20 September.
Consultations open on National Autism Strategy
The Albanese Labor Government has today opened public consultations on the development of a National Autism Strategy – Australia’s inaugural national strategy dedicated to improving life outcomes for Autistic people.
New grant opportunities to boost community participation of people with disability
The Albanese Government is continuing to help boost the social, economic and community participation of people with disability with the announcement today of $140 million in new grant opportunities under the Independent Linkages and Capacity Building (ILC) program.