What's New What's Different 

More help for families

• More help for families measures

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

• Business Services – Security, Quality Services and Choice for People with Disabilities

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

• Centrelink – Implementation of Funding Model
• Centrelink – Call Centre Supplementation

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

Support for veterans

• Clarke Review into Veterans' Entitlements – Six Department of Veterans' Affairs Measures Affecting FaCS Programs