What's New What's Different 

• Support for Indigenous Australians
• Seniors' Support
• Assisting people with disabilities and their Carers
• Responding to unforseen events
• Ensuring Benefits Go To those In Need
• Child Support Reforms
• Other Measures

Support for Indigenous Australians

• Strengthening Indigenous Communities - reducing substance abuse (petrol sniffing)
• Strengthening Indigenous Communities - extending Family Income Management and improving family payment outcomes for Indigenous children
• Strengthening Indigenous Communities - expansion of Home Ownership on Indigenous Land Programme
• Strengthening Indigenous Communities - reforming the delivery capacity of Indigenous corporations
• Strengthening Indigenous Communities - Indigenous community leadership
• Strengthening Indigenous Communities - Family and Community Networks Initiative - continue funding

Seniors' Support

• Fraud and Compliance - improved assessment of the value of real estate assets

Assisting people with disabilities and their Carers

• Peer support groups for parents of young children with disabilities - establishment
• Fraud and Compliance - detecting incorrect Carer payments
• Quality assurance and disability employment places - continue funding
• Carer Allowance (child) - addition to the lists of recognised disabilities

Responding to unforseen events

• Social and community impact recovery incident facility - establishment
• National Emergency Call Centre - establishment

Ensuring Benefits Go To those In Need

• Fraud and Compliance - continuation of accelerated claimant matching detecting incorrect rent assistance

Child Support Reforms

• Child Support Reforms - a new formula
• Child Support Reforms - aligning income definitions
• Child Support Reforms - changes to the Family Tax Benefit maintenance arrangements
• Child Support Reforms - improving compliance
• Child Support Reforms - external review
• Child Support Reforms - Family Relationship Centres
• Child Support Reforms - communications strategy

Other Measures

• Assurance of Support Scheme - additional funding
• Domestic Violence - Crisis Payments to victims who remain in the home
• Social Security Appeals Tribunal (SSAT) recruitment
• Japan - social security agreement
• Migration Programme - 3000 additional family stream places for 2005-06
• Migration Programme - 4000 place increase in the family stream for 2006-07
• Nonprofit Australia - continue support