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With one click, parents will now be able to get up-to-date information on child care vacancies, making it easier to to compare services and to make informed choices about the care that best suits them.Read more...
A new $130 million program will provide low-income and disadvantaged households with a wide range of resources to help them reduce energy and water costs and take the pressure off their power bills.Read more...
The CPRS contains a big package of household assistance - worth $49 billion over ten years - to ensure all low and middle income families are assisted with the cost of acting on climate change. Read more...
The Government will repeal all NTER laws that suspend the operation of the RDA to help build real and lasting change in Indigenous communities and end the unacceptably high levels of disadvantage.Read more...
Kevin Rudd and Labor
All Aussie men should swear to help end violence against women. Add your voice. Swear today at
http://www.myoath.com.au
You can read more about the White Ribbon Day campaign and its origins on the White Ribbon Day website. http://www.whiteribbonday.org.au/About-W
As it says on the White Ribbon Day website " t...he White Ribbon Foundation of Australia aims to eliminate violence against women by promoting culture-change around the issue.
White Ribbon Day was created by a handful of Canadian men in 1991 on the second anniversary of one man's massacre of fourteen women in Montreal. They began the White Ribbon Campaign to urge men to speak out against violence against women.
In 1999, the United Nations General Assembly declared November 25 the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (IDEVAW) and the White Ribbon has become the symbol for the day."
Australia has moved a step closer to action on climate change with the Rudd Government delivering an environmentally and economically responsible deal to secure the passage of the bill this week. Read more...
The Rudd Government will commission an inquiry to examine the feasibility of new approaches to long-term essential care and support for people with severe or profound disabilities, however acquired. Read more...
Kevin Rudd and Labor PM, Ministers Wong & Combet just announced the Government’s deal on the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme http://bit.ly/7H23aX #KevinPM Team
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Australia has today moved a step closer to action on climate change, after the Rudd Government this morning delivered a deal to the Opposition aimed at securing the passage of the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme this week.
Kevin Rudd and Labor PM announced feasibility study into a lifetime care and support scheme at the National Disability Awards Dinner.
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In announcing that it will oppose the creation of a national workplace relations system for the private sector, the Liberals have confirmed their place as political opportunists and workplace extremists.Read more...
The Rudd Government will triple the incentive paid to employers who take on apprentices in traditional trades with skill shortages like butchers, bakers, bricklayers, plumbers, and pastry cooks. Read more...
An extra eight billion litres will be released to internationally significant wetlands along the Murray River to assist threatened iconic river red gums and provide drought relief for wetland dependent species.Read more...
The Coalition has voted to stop the Government providing more than 150,000 students with start-up scholarships and denied potentially thousands of students the opportunity of a university education.Read more...
A new windfarm comprising 67 wind turbines capable of supplying electricity to around 60,000 homes will boost the nation's wind power capacity by more than 10% and help tackle the threat of climate change.Read more...
Australia will pledge $100M towards a world free from landmines, cluster munitions and other explosive remnants of war which blight more than 70 countries and kill and injure more than 5,000 people a year.Read more...
