Media Releases by Senator the Hon Amanda Vanstone

Llewellyn Wrong on Disability Funding

Mr David Llewellyn, the Tasmanian Disabilities Minister, is dead wrong when he asserts that the Commonwealth’s offer for the next Commonwealth State and Territory Disability…

NT Government Fails People With Disabilities

Ms Jane Aagaard, the Northern Territory Disabilities Minister, is failing people with disabilities in the Northern Territory by choosing to play politics rather than committing…

SA Government fails people with disabilities

Ms Stephanie Key, the South Australian Disabilities Minister, is failing people with disabilities in South Australia by choosing to play politics rather than committing to…

Boost to pension and adult benefit rates

Over 3.9 million pensioners and adults receiving income support will benefit from a rise in pension and adult benefit rates from 20 September 2002. The…

Welfare Cheat Taken to the Cleaners

A tip-off that was then followed up by a quality Centrelink investigation has led to the sentencing of a Newcastle woman for defrauding the Commonwealth…

ACOSS inadvertently misleads

ACOSS should have checked its figures before making embarrassing claims about increases in breaches in today’s media. The facts are that on ACOSS’s own estimate…

Community and Business Getting Together

I am pleased to acknowledge the release of the report, ‘Mutual Benefit – Community and Business Getting Together’ that focuses on partnerships in the disability…

Families Want Long Term Security

“Like generations of parents before them, parents today want to give their children more than they had,” Senator Vanstone said today. For people who grew…