Jenny Macklin speech

ADDRESS TO THE AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT SOCIAL INCLUSION CONFERENCE, MELBOURNE


The Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, Jenny Macklin, discussed the Community Development Financial Institutions initiative to provide people and organisations, excluded from mainstream banks and services, with access to appropriate and fair financial products - mostly loans; a new income management system will be rolled out nationally aimed at fostering individual responsibility; providing a platform for people to move up and out of welfare dependence and to tackle the destructive, intergenerational cycle of passive welfare; and national standards for out of home care and improving the simple sharing of information between agencies.