Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs

The Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs ( FaHCSIA ) (German: Ministry of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs ) was a Ministry of the Commonwealth of Australia . The main administrative building was in the south of Canberra in the suburb of Greenway . It was founded in 2007 and dissolved in 2013.

Duties and Office Holders

The Ministry's task was to develop and implement a social policy for Australian society. The FaHCSIA's Office of Indigenous Policy Coordination for Aborigines is an important division of this ministry.

The current ministers and parliamentary state secretaries (September 2011) are:

• The Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs is Jenny Macklin
• The Minister for Social Housing and Homelessness is Mark Arbib
• Minister for the Status of Women is Kate Ellis
• Parliamentary Secretary for Disabilities and Carers is Senator Jan McLucas
• Parliamentary Secretary for Community Services is Julie Collins

Programs

The ministry offered support and / or programs for the following target groups:

• Families and children
• Students and young people
• Disabled person
• People in need of care
• Old people
• Homeless or people at risk of homelessness
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders
• Gambling addicts and drug addicts
• Social worker

Furthermore, it developed concepts for equal rights for women in its own ministry.

Web links

• Official website (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ fahcsia.gov.au : Programs & Services , in English, accessed September 19, 2011