The Hon. Joe Hockey, October 2004–January 2007
Media releases
2006
- 13 December 2006—Release of Exposure Draft of the Access Card Bill
- 11 December 2006—Welfare fraud tipoffs save $125.6 million
- 30 November 2006 – Ministers announce additional drought buses
- 30 November 2006—Connecting with the kids over Christmas
- 27 November 2006—Hockey Announces Access Card Briefings
- 15 November 2006—Hockey unveils new Centrelink services
- 14 November 2006—AFL Star Becomes Human Services Indigenous Ambassador
- 08 November 2006—Your Card — Your Security
- 01 November 2006—Parents with child support debts should pay before booking their Christmas holiday
- 25 October 2006—Centrelink helping farmers through the Drought
- 18 October 2006—Child Support Agency ramps up tax compliance
- 05 October 2006—Workplace program helping separated Dads at home and work
- 05 October 2006—Centrelink Begins SMS Reminders
- 03 October 2006—CSA’s compliance success for 2005-06
- 25 September 2006—Minister Hockey announces groundbreaking trial
- 21 September 2006—Access Card Chief Technology Architect appointed
- 19 September 2006—Bad medicine on border security
- 07 September 2006—CSA continues to produce results
- 31 August 2006—Incentives recoup millions for children
- 29 August 2006—Hockey praises leading hearing research
- 25 August 2006—Minter Ellison appointed legal advisor to Access Card
- 23 August 2006—Indigenous Ambassadors to be role models at Croc Fest
- 22 August 2006—Minister for Human Services visits Port Augusta
- 21 August 2006—Hockey puts Indigenous services under the Spotlight
- 21 August 2006—Hockey Announces new Indigenous Ambassador
- 21 August 2006—IT jobs coup for Adelaide
- 18 August 2006—Have you heard it's Hearing Awareness Week
- 15 August 2006—Support for separated parents at the click of a button
- 11 August 2006—New Chairman for Australian Hearing
- 09 August 2006—Hockey announces payment for Matthew Pearce
- 07 August 2006—Operation Marcellus and Operation Chorus crackdown on Victoria’s cash economy and welfare fraud
- 04 August 2006—Financial investigators wanted to crackdown on dead beat parents
- 03 August 2006—Hockey welcomes submissions on Access Card
- 28 July 2006—Office of Access Card appoints KPMG for program monitoring and assurance
- 28 July 2006—Can you catch welfare cheats? Extra staff to boost complex Centrelink fraud investigations
- 26 July 2006—Centrelink's fraud blitz tops $1million
- 26 July 2006—New free guide to help step families have an easier time
- 24 July 2006—New Deputy Secretary for Access Card
- 19 July 2006—Appointment of Booz Allen Hamilton as lead advisor
- 28 June 2006—The Australian Government's vision for a single Health and Social Services Access Card
- 19 June 2006—Crackdown on dead-beats who hide income form the CSA
- 01 June 2006—Joint Media Release: Helping more Australians move into work
- 30 May 2006—Kyle Vander-Kuyp announced as an Indigenous Ambassador
- 24 May 2006—Professor Allan Fels to head Access Card Consumer and Privacy Taskforce
- 23 May 2006—Australian Government committed to assisting the Wadeye community
- 21 May 2006—Minister Hockey defends childcare for staff
- 15 May 2006—New home for Medicare and CSA in Parramatta
- 11 May 2006—First tenders and appointments called to deliver Access Card
- 9 May 2006—What the Government is doing to keep the system fair
- 9 May 2006—Centrelink - call centre supplementation
- 9 May 2006—Access Card to cut red tape for Health and Social Services
- 9 May 2006—Expansion of Remote Area Service Centres
- 4 May 2006—More help for people moving into work
- 3 May 2006—Cyclone assistance tops $100 million
- 30 March 2006—$21 million in cyclone relief payments
- 26 March 2006—Centrelink cyclone support
- 10 March 2006—$320 million for the jobless
- 2 March 2006—Road blitz on welfare cheats