2005 Media releases
Welfare to Work – new data
3 November 2005
“New authoritative modelling shows that nothing can stop the current Government proposals from creating the perfect poverty trap”, NFAW spokesperson Marie Coleman said, releasing a third report from the National Centre for Economic and Social Modelling (NATSEM). Read more >>
Our government’s new poverty trap
13 September 2005
“NewStart Allowance is a Procrustean one-size fits all poverty trap for people with disabilities,” Marie Coleman said today. Read more >>
Marian Eldridge Award 2005
13 September 2005
The award commemorates writer Marian Eldridge, who died in 1997, and is made annually to an aspiring female writer to help develop promising talent. Read more >>
Government’s own figures prove Welfare-to-Work proposals not needed
24 August 2005
Reports that Centrelink data demonstrate the effectiveness of current efforts to enable people with disabilities and sole parents to get part-time jobs are very welcome. Read more >>
What Women Want
23 August 2005
Representatives of 64 national women’s organisations met in Canberra in July to discuss the proposed changes to the industrial relations laws and the income support payments and examined their impact on women, particularly on women of working age with a low income. Read more >>
Older disabled women adversely affected by welfare to work changes
19 August 2005
The National Foundation for Australian Women has expressed grave concern at the effects of the changes to disability pensioners under the Federal Government’s Welfare to Work policy NFAW spokesperson, Marie Coleman, Chair of the NFAW Social Policy Committee said today. Mrs Coleman was releasing the report of analysis carried out through the NFAW Read more >>
Policy statement on sexual and reproductive health, including access to services for the termination of pregnancy
5 May 2005
Recognising that State and Territory Governments in Australia have the constitutional powers to enact laws regarding the registration of medical and health establishments such as hospitals and day hospitals, the registration of health professionals thus giving them rights to practice, or which allow or disallow the sale of certain pharmaceutical products and related health products such as contraceptive devices, or to enact laws relating to the legality or otherwise of actions by health professionals which affect individual patients, and Noting that States and Territories also have the constitutional powers to make laws relating to the provision of public health education programs as well as to regulate the establishment and the curriculum of educational institutions, and Recognising that the Commonwealth Parliament has enacted laws for the provision of monies to the States and Territory Governments for specific purposes bearing on the financing of public hospitals, of public health programs, and of public and private schools, including through the Commonwealth-State Hospitals Agreement, and Recognising that the Commonwealth Parliament has enacted laws to provide for the provision of financial subsidies to individuals to defray the costs to the individual of purchase of approved pharmaceutical products, through the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, as well as of the costs to the individual of medical consultations, through the Medical Benefits Schedule of the National Health Insurance Act, and Taking account of the current discussion within the Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia and elsewhere concerning the desirability of modification of its policies and programs bearing on the management of women’s fertility and the termination of pregnancy, Read more >>
What are Australia’s health futures?
19 August 2005
The NFAW, in association with Manning Clark House, asks the question: Read more >>