More help for families
More flexibility for carers and better support for people in care
- Carers – Payment of One-Off Carer Bonus
- Carer Allowance – Expand Eligibility Criteria
- Carers – Respite and Information Services for Younger Carers
- Carers – Increased Access to Respite for Older Carers
More assistance for business services
Greater assistance and child care choices for Australian families
- Family Assistance – Additional Outside School Hours Care Places
- Family Assistance – Additional Family Day Care Places
- Family Assistance – Increased Funding for the Child Care Support Program
- Family Assistance – Stronger Families and Communities Strategy – Continuation of Funding for a Refocussed Early Childhood Strategy
- Family Assistance – Additional Playgroup Services
- Household Organisational Management Expenses (HOME) Advice Program
Ensuring benefits go to those in need
- Compliance – Parenting Payment (Single) – Relationship Status Reviews
- Compliance – 'Keeping the System Fair' Education Campaign
- Compliance – Continuation of Data-Matching Measures to Improve Control of Incorrect Payment and Fraud
- Compliance Reviews – Improved Service Profiling
- Compliance Reviews – Expand Data-Matching
- Centrelink – Assessment of Income and Assets held in Trusts and Private Companies
Improved Centrelink service delivery
Support for migrants and humanitarian entrants
- Settlement Services for Migrants and Humanitarian Entrants – Job Placement, Employment and Training and Reconnect Services
- Settlement Services for Migrants and Humanitarian Entrants – Family Relationships Services
- Regional Migration Initiatives
- Humanitarian Program
- Migration (Non-Humanitarian) Program
Assistance for senior Australians
- A More Flexible and Adaptable Retirement Income System – Assets Test Exemption for Income Streams
- Commonwealth Seniors Health Card – Great Southern Rail Service Concession
Assistance for students
- Our Universities – Exempt Fee-Waiver and Fee-Pay Scholarships from Social Security Income Tests
- Our Universities – Exempt Commonwealth Learning Scholarships from Social Security Income Tests
Other measures
- Social Security Agreement with Ireland – Revised Agreement
- Child Support Agency – New Funding Agreement
- Auslan Interpreting Services – Enhanced Access
- Voluntary Work Initiative – Continuation of Funding
- Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey – Extended Funding
- Welfare Reform Consultative Forum – Extension
- Prime Minister's Community Business Partnership
- Indigenous Financial Management
- National Illicit Drug Strategy – Additional Funding
Sugar industry reform
- Sugar Industry Reform Programme 2004 – Crisis Counselling
- Sugar Industry Reform Programme 2004 – Intergenerational Transfer