31 July, 2008 02:00PM
Media Release
Brendan O'Connor
The acting Minister for Education, Brendan O’Connor, has welcomed new figures showing strong growth in university student numbers and enrolments in national priority areas.
31 July, 2008 01:30PM
Media Release
Kate Ellis
The Minister for Youth, Kate Ellis, today urged young people to ensure they are enrolled to vote as part of the Australian Electoral Commission’s national Enrol to Vote Week.
30 July, 2008 09:00AM
Media Release
Ursula Stephens
Parliamentary Secretary for the Voluntary Sector, Senator Ursula Stephens, has welcomed the announcement of more than $3 million dollars in funding grants to volunteer organisations at the front line of emergency management.
29 July, 2008 02:00PM
Media Release
Brendan O'Connor
An Australian Government program is providing literacy and numeracy training for apprentices for the first time in South Australia.
29 July, 2008 01:30PM
Media Release
Maxine McKew
Earlier this month the Rudd Government published data from the 2006 Australian Government Census of Child Care Services on the Office of Early Childhood Education and Child Care website.
29 July, 2008 11:30AM
Joint Media Release
Brendan O'Connor
The skills and employability of job seekers in Northern Adelaide will be boosted with the opening of a new career centre in Salisbury.
29 July, 2008 09:30AM
Media Release
Brendan O'Connor
Forty former Mitsubishi employees are undertaking training to help address skilled labour shortages in South Australia’s transport and distribution industry.
25 July, 2008 01:00PM
Joint Media Release
Julia Gillard
The National Transport Commission (NTC) will investigate and report on driver remuneration and payment methods in the Australian trucking industry and make recommendations for reform.
25 July, 2008 09:00AM
Media Release
Kate Ellis
A new report aimed at giving young Australians a stronger voice in Government decision making was launched today by the Minister for Youth, Kate Ellis, at the University of Western Australia.
24 July, 2008 02:00PM
Speech
Maxine McKew
Good evening and thank you for the invitation to join you here tonight. It’s marvellous to be in a room of warriors of battles past and present.
I’m delighted to have the opportunity to speak about issues that are incredibly important to me, and I think, to most Australian women.
One of the many joys of winning Bennelong has been entering public life at a time of record participation by women across all branches of government, in our legislative assemblies, in the executive and the j