News & events

2013-14 Budget

Information about the Portfolio and Indigenous Budget Statements 2013-14

Responsibility area: About FaHCSIA

Supporting people with mental illness in Bendigo

People with severe mental illness in Bendigo and the Goldfields region will have greater access to support services and other practical assistance close to home thanks to a $1.5 million investment in St Luke’s Anglicare.

Responsibility area: Mental Health

Supporting carers in Perth

Carers and families of people with a severe mental illness in Perth will have greater access to support services thanks to a $1.2 million investment for Mental Health Carers Arafmi to deliver a new Mental Health Respite: Carer Support Service.

Responsibility area: Mental Health

Volunteer Grants 2013

Call for applications now closed.

Responsibility area: Grants and Funding

Royal Commission Community-based Support Services Funding

Suitably qualified organisations are invited to submit an application to deliver support services to assist individuals affected through their engagement with the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.

Responsibility area: Families and Children

Public Housing Tenant’s Support Bill 2013 draft released

The Australian Government has released an exposure draft of a Bill aimed at assisting in the prevention of evictions and possible homelessness of public housing tenants (including tenants of state owned and managed Indigenous housing) due to unpaid rent.

Responsibility area: Housing Support

Occasional Paper No. 47

Occasional Paper No. 47, Young carers in receipt of Carer Payment and Carer Allowance 2001 to 2006: characteristics, experiences and post-care outcomes, has been released.

Responsibility area: About FaHCSIA

Occasional Paper No. 41

Occasional Paper No. 41, Responses to financial stress at life transition points, has been released

Responsibility area: About FaHCSIA

Family Mental Health Support Services – Call for Applications Open

Community organisations across Australia can apply for Australian Government funding to establish New Family Mental Health Support Services (New FMHSS) to provide early intervention and intensive support to vulnerable children and young people at risk of

Responsibility area: Mental Health

Six National Women’s Alliances

The six National Women’s Alliances will receive $4.8 million over three years to 2016 to continue bringing forward the views, voices and issues of a diverse array of Australian women to Government

Responsibility area: Women

Addressing Indigenous Disadvantage

Prime Minister Julia Gillard has today delivered the latest report card on the progress made to meet the Closing the Gap targets, which are focused on eliminating Indigenous disadvantage.

Responsibility area: Indigenous Australians

Two new approved money management courses

The Financial Wellbeing Course and Employment and Life Skills: Managing Money have been added to the list of approved money management courses.

Responsibility area: Indigenous Australians

Social Housing Initiative Review

An independent review of the Social Housing Initiative was undertaken by KPMG in late 2012 and the report on the review has been released.

Responsibility area: Housing Support

National Gambling Reform Acts 2012

On 29 November 2012, Federal Parliament passed gambling reform legislation that will see the most significant and far reaching national reforms put in place to reduce the harm from poker machines.

Responsibility area: Communities and Vulnerable People