Publications

This Budget fact sheet outlines how the Government will provide funding for a further two years to implement, administer and monitor the Health Star Rating (HSR) system.

This Budget fact sheet outlines how the Government will continue to tackle drug and alcohol abuse, funding a comprehensive package to ensure people get the right services and support, when and where they need it.

This Budget fact sheet outlines how the Government is boosting support for people affected by domestic violence with an additional $9.6 million investment.

This Budget fact sheet outlines how the Government is introducing vital reforms to help safeguard the integrity of Australian sport and combat present, emerging and future threats from doping, match-fixing, illegal betting, organised crime, and corruption.

This Budget fact sheet outlines how the Government will develop a Sports Industry Growth Plan.

This Budget fact sheet outlines how the Government will expand the Community Sport Infrastructure Grants Program to support more community-led sport and physical activity projects and get more Australians moving more often.

This Budget fact sheet outlines how the Government will continue to support the Sporting Schools Program until 31 December 2020.

This Budget fact sheet outlines how the Government will fund a new national approach to help prepare talented able and disabled athletes for life before, during and after their elite sporting careers.

This Budget fact sheet outlines the Government's investment of $23.6 million to expand the role that Australian sport plays in promoting social inclusion and improving health outcomes.

This Budget fact sheet outlines the Government's further support of the Australian Sports Foundation to modernise its information and communication technology systems.

This Budget fact sheet outlines how the Government will expand the Sport Australia Hall of Fame mentoring program that partners Australia’s sporting heroes – Hall of Fame members – with young Australians who aspire to represent their country.

This Budget fact sheet outlines how the Government will boost grassroots participation in sport with new initiatives aimed at increasing opportunities for women and girls in tennis and netball.

This poster aims to prompt pregnant women to think about getting the free whooping cough vaccine when pregnant.

This research was conducted to further understand the knowledge base for adolescents and their parents around school-based vaccinations.

This strategy outlines Australia’s national approach to improving the health of men and boys – particularly those at greatest risk of poor health – and to reducing inequities between different groups.

These quarterly reports provide an update on the operation of the Home Care Packages Program. They include statistics on assessment, approvals, services, people waiting for services, wait times and maximum exit amounts.

The Australian Government welcomes the report of the Joint Standing Committee on the National Disability Insurance Scheme (the Committee) Inquiry into NDIS ICT Systems (the Report).

This final protocol describes the methodology reviewers will follow to assess use of enzyme replacement medicines under the Life Saving Drugs Program medicines for Gaucher disease (type 1).

This final protocol describes the methodology reviewers will follow to assess use of Life Saving Drugs Program medicines for Fabry disease.

The surveillance reports summarise the status of an ongoing outbreak of infectious syphilis among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in remote and rural areas of northern Australia. This report consolidates the monthly surveillance reports from May 2018 to January 2019.

The surveillance reports summarise the status of an ongoing outbreak of infectious syphilis among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in remote and rural areas of northern Australia. This report consolidates the monthly surveillance reports from March 2016 to February 2018.

This review showed that the program plays an effective and important role where Australia’s health and aged care systems meet. It has supported the early discharge of older people from hospital and can help delay their entry into residential care.

This fact sheet describes the Government’s reforms to private health insurance.

The Joint Standing Committee on the National Disability Insurance Scheme (the Committee) released a report into the provision of Assistive Technology (AT) under the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) in December 2018.

As part of the development of Australia’s Disability Strategy 2021–2031, the Department of Social Services engaged the Social Policy Research Centre of the University of New South Wales to undertake an independent, targeted review of implementation of the National Disability Strategy 2010–2020.