News & Media Releases

Budget 2015: Federal funding guarantee for preschools in Deakin

04 May 2015

The Abbott Government is to continue the 15 hours per week four-year-old kindergarten programme with $840 million over 2016 and 2017.

Budget 2015: Child care visit gives parents a say on upcoming families’ package

01 May 2015

Minister for Social Services Scott Morrison visited Croydon South to discuss the Abbott Government’s upcoming families’ package, which includes a $246m pilot programme to extend subsidy support to home care services provided by nannies.

Media Statement: Labor’s Western Distributor Proposal

30 April 2015

The announcement today that Daniel Andrews will begin planning the new Western Distributor road ahead of the congestion-busting East West Link is a slap in the face to residents in Melbourne’s outer-eastern suburbs.

LABOR’S EAST WEST LINK BETRAYAL

16 April 2015

Residents in Melbourne’s outer-eastern suburbs will despair at Labor’s decision to put the East West Link project on the scrap heap.

Surrey Rd and Junction Rd Intersection Upgrade approved

16 April 2015

Joint media statement – Briggs/Sukkar – $500,000 to deliver the Surrey Road and Junction Road intersection upgrade in Blackburn North.

No Jab, No Play and No Pay for Childcare

12 April 2015

From 1 January 2016, childcare and family payments will be denied to parents who don’t vaccinate their children.

Michael Sukkar congratulates new jobactive services in Deakin

10 April 2015

Federal Member for Deakin, Michael Sukkar, today congratulated the organisations that have won contracts to deliver employment services to job seekers and employers in Deakin.