Ministers

Portfolio responsibilities

Minister Morrison is responsible for:

• Overall responsibility for the Social Services portfolio, including policy, budget and expenditure matters and deregulation
• Civil Society, Charities, Volunteers and Not-for-profits
• Community Services
• Community Mental Health
• Emergency Relief
• Families and Children’s policy
• Payments and programmes to support families and children, including Paid Parental Leave
• Programmes and services to reduce violence against women and their children
• Financial Counselling
• Gambling regulation
• Housing and Homelessness Policy and Programmes
• Income management
• Income Support for Seniors
• Allowances Services and Concessions for Seniors
• Income Support for people of working age and students, including Newstart Allowance and Austudy/ABSTUDY
• Payments of programs under the Disabilities and Carers outcome including support for people with a disability and income support for carers
• International Social Security Agreements
• Social Security means test policy, nominee policy, advance payment policy and compensation provisions
• Pension Bonus Scheme policy
• Income support for people in Special Circumstances
• Supplementary Payments and Support for Income Support Recipients

Minister Fifield is responsible for:

• Policy and program aspects of the aged care system
• Regulation oversight of the aged care system
• Policy for and promotion of active ageing
• Services to help people with disabilities obtain and maintain employment
• Policy and program aspects of specialist supports for people with disability and their carers
• Day to day oversight of the National Disability Insurance Scheme
• Policy and program aspects of community supports for people with mental health issues and their carers
• Specialist Employment Services – Disability Employment Services
• Mental Health programmes

Parliamentary Secretary Fierravanti-Wells is responsible for:

• Multicultural Affairs
• Arrangement for settlement of migrants and humanitarian entrants other than migrant child and migrant adult education, including:
  • Humanitarian Settlement Services;
  • Settlement and other Grants programmes;
  • Complex Case Support; and
  • Diversity and Social Cohesion

Former Ministers and Parliamentary Secretaries

Former Ministerial and Parliamentary Secretary media releases and speeches are available from the Archived Media site.

Last updated: 25 December 2014 - 9:02pm