Press Office

TUE 14 MAY 2013

A Fairer Funding Plan For All Australian Schools

The Gillard Government has made a $9.8 billion commitment to increase school funding over six years, along with better indexation and reforms to lift student achievement, under the National Plan for School Improvement.  ...

TUE 14 MAY 2013

Gillard Government Delivers DisabilityCare Australia

The Gillard Government will invest $14.3 billion over seven years to roll out DisabilityCare Australia, the national disability insurance scheme, across the country. ...

TUE 14 MAY 2013

Government Funds The Important Work Of The Royal Commission

The Gillard Government is providing $434.1 million over four years from 2012-13 to support the work of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. ...

SAT 11 MAY 2013

Transcript of Doorstop Interview

PM: It’s a very moving experience to be here and to see the rows of Australian war dead. ...

SAT 11 MAY 2013

Transcript of Doorstop Interview

JOURNALIST: So are you aware of the latest breakout of 18 Vietnamese asylum seekers from the Northam Immigration Detention Centre? ...

SAT 11 MAY 2013

Transcript of Remarks at Northern Territory DisabilityCare Launch

PM: Thank you very much to everyone for gathering here today and thank you most significantly to you for making us so welcome and for your long career here, working with people with disabilities. ...

SAT 11 MAY 2013

Transcript of Doorstop Interview

PM: It’s a very moving experience to be here and to see the rows of Australian war dead. ...

SAT 11 MAY 2013

Prime Minister concludes visit to Papua New Guinea

Prime Minister Julia Gillard today concluded her visit to Papua New Guinea, having held discussions with PNG’s Prime Minister Peter O’Neill and his senior ministers. The Prime Ministers signed a Joint Partnership Declaration, building on the Declaration of Principles...

SAT 11 MAY 2013

DisabilityCare Australia to be rolled out in the Northern Territory

The Gillard Government and the Northern Territory Government have reached an historic agreement today that will see DisabilityCare Australia, the national disability insurance scheme, rolled out across the Northern Territory by July 2019. ...

FRI 10 MAY 2013

Working With Business To Support PNG Women

Prime Minister Julia Gillard today announced Australia would work with the PNG business community to enhance the status of women in workplaces in Papua New Guinea. ...