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Youth, student and carer allowance rates rise from 1 January
01/12/2017
4 December 2017
Payments to about one million youth, students and carers will rise from 1 January 2018.
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Quality of NDIS services assured
30/11/2017
30 November 2017
Participants in the National Disability Insurance Scheme, along with their families and carers, can now be assured of quality services and appropriate safeguards following the passage of legislation in the Senate to establish the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission.
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Palm Island joins campaign to put door to door traders on notice
26/11/2017
Palm Island officially became a Do Not Knock informed community this month with the unveiling of new high-profile signage at a community event. The Do . . .
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Third National Mentorship Program begins in Cairns
26/11/2017
The third national Indigenous Financial Counselling Mentorship Program sponsored by the Commonwealth Bank commenced in Cairns on October the 16th, 2017. . . .
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Chasing buffalo and financial empowerment
26/11/2017
by Carmen Daniels & Aaron Davis Chasing buffalo and financial empowerment in the Canadian prairies became the theme of our recent fact-finding . . .
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Government seeks new approaches to tackle welfare dependency
22/11/2017
22 November 2017
Migrants and refugees, at risk young people, Newstart recipients over 50 years of age and carers will benefit from the next tranche of the Government’s $96.1 million Try, Test and Learn Fund.
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Outcome-based Welfare Reform
22/11/2017
22 November 2017
A central purpose in speaking before you today is to share with you data collated over the last year that we consider demonstrates enormous success in ensuring fewer Australians move onto welfare and more move from welfare to work.
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