FCAQ News
Payments for 3.8 million pension/welfare recipients
15/06/2017
15 June 2017
The Turnbull Government will provide a one-off payment of up to $75 to 3.8 million people, following the passage of legislation today in the Senate.
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Disability Employment Services Reforms Underway
14/06/2017
14 June 2017
The Australian Government has released an industry information paper that provides essential information for those delivering Disability Employment Services (DES) from 1 July 2018.
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Increasing age pension to 67 was Labor policy – News Corp stories wrong
04/06/2017
4 June 2017
News Corp stories this morning claiming that it was a Coalition Government decision to increase the age at which people can access the age pension from 65 to 67 are wrong.
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Speech to CEDA
01/06/2017
1 June 2017
Over the last 4 years the Government has focused on the overarching problem of sustainability in the welfare system. The problem BEING that welfare spending was growing faster than the taxpayers’ ability to pay for it.
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A million reasons to support young carers
31/05/2017
31 May 2017
Minister for Social Services, Christian Porter, and Assistant Minister for Social Services and Disability Services, Jane Prentice, today announced an additional $1 million to continue the Young Carer Bursary Program in 2018.
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New legislation to ensure quality of NDIS services
30/05/2017
31 May 2017
The Turnbull Government will today introduced legislation to establish the new National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) Quality and Safeguards Commission.
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Government to scrap compo for Labor’s scrapped Carbon Tax
30/05/2017
31 May 2017
The Turnbull Government is reintroducing legislation to end compensation for Labor’s now defunct Carbon Tax by closing the Energy Supplement to new welfare recipients.
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Queensland regions get early access to the NDIS
26/05/2017
26 May 2017
Hundreds of Queenslanders with disability in Ipswich, Bundaberg and Rockhampton will get earlier access to the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) thanks to a decision of the Commonwealth and Queensland Governments.
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Tasmania to trial GPS tracking of repeat family violence offenders
25/05/2017
25 May 2017
A three year trial of using GPS to track and monitor high risk family violence offenders will begin in Tasmania this year.
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