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Your Caring Way has launched!
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Carers celebrated as National Carers Week launches next week
Australia’s 2.7 million unpaid carers will be recognised and celebrated during National Carers Week 2019 this October. The national campaign will officially launch in Brisbane on Friday 11 October at ...
Carers Queensland's response to the Regional Delivery Partners announcement
A new regional network of service providers to help carers access new and improved services from April next year was announced by the Australian Government yesterday. Ten not-for-profit organisations ...
Unprecedented support for Australia’s carers
The Morrison Government is introducing the single biggest reform in more than a decade to better support Australia’s 2.7 million carers. Minister for Families and Social Services Anne Ruston today ann ...
Carers Queensland getting real about reconciliation
Carers Queensland has a long history of getting real about reconciliation, and this National Reconciliation Week the organisation is re-committing to walking together with the Aboriginal and Torres St ...
Additional support for carers welcomed
The Treasurer’s announcement last night of an additional $84.3 million to support family and friend carers will help ease the major transition underway in the nationally-funded carer support sector to ...
Carers Queensland building on experience to deliver NDIS program
Carers Queensland, one of the National Disability Insurance Scheme’s (NDIS) Partners in the Community, is celebrating the official opening of six new offices across Queensland. Ashmore, Logan, Eight M ...
Call for superannuation guarantee for carers
Carers Australia welcomes the motion introduced by Senator Griff and passed by the Senate on Monday, recognising the plight of carers who have had to give up paid work to provide care for family membe ...
Quality of Life survey shows carers are becoming more socially isolated
Social isolation and profound loneliness are two common factors in the lives of unpaid carers in Queensland, Carers Queensland’s Quality of Life Audit 2018 has revealed. Anxiety, depression and fear o ...
Minister Coralee O’Rourke to launch National Carers Week in Brisbane
Minister for Communities and Minister for Disability Services and Seniors, Coralee O’Rourke will officially launch National Carers Week 2018 on Friday 12 October at the Gala Lunch event hosted by Care ...
Carers Queensland to improve disability support with new NDIS funding
4 June 2018 Carers Queensland is the new National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) Local Area Coordination, Partners in the Community service provider for five new service areas in Queensland. The a ...
Budget 2018: What it means for carers
The 2018-19 Australian Federal Budget was released on Tuesday 8 May . The Budget included the measures to design and fund an integrated service delivery system to carers that was announced by the Min ...
