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Annual Report 06–07
Output 1: Core Department
Vietnamese delegation visits—the Department of Human Services
In May 2007, the Core Department hosted a six-member delegation from Vietnam Social Security, to share experiences, successes and approaches to delivering social and health-related services, and to provide an overview of the Core Department’s role in managing the Human Services agencies in Australia.
The Core Department organised and facilitated meetings between the delegates and officials from:
- Centrelink and Medicare Australia, to discuss their operations;
- the Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, to discuss aged care policy; and
- the Department of Health and Ageing, to discuss health insurance policy.
Participants found the interaction highly valuable. The head of the delegation, Mr Nguyen Thanh Xuyen, Deputy General of the Vietnam Social Security Agency, stated:
Australia and Vietnam share similar challenges in providing cost-effective social security services to economically diverse populations in the context of rapidly changing technology and labour markets. I am impressed at the progress your department is making in addressing these issues.