Foundations for a Stronger, Fairer Australia

To mark Social Inclusion Week 2011, the Minister for Social Inclusion, the Hon Tanya Plibersek MP has launched a report outlining the Australian Government’s social inclusion achievements, Foundations for a Stronger, Fairer Australia.

The report includes government action over the last four years that is helping to break down barriers between the most disadvantaged Australians and meaningful participation in the community and the workforce.

The report focuses on the six priority areas of the government’s social inclusion agenda where people face significant barriers:

• improving the life chances of children at the greatest risk of long term disadvantage
• helping jobless families with children to increase work opportunities, improve their parenting and build their capacity
• reducing the incidence of homelessness
• improving outcomes for people living with disability or mental illness and their carers
• closing the gap for Indigenous Australians and
• breaking the cycle of entrenched and multiple disadvantage in particular neighbourhoods and communities.
It also looks at what the government is doing to support multiculturalism and help newly arrived migrants and refugees begin their new lives in Australia.

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