Nicola Roxon (Gellibrand, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Attorney-General) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Treasurer and Acting Prime Minister. Can the Acting Prime Minister confirm that the government ignored departmental data on suitable locations for family relationship centres and that, instead of these centres being located in places like Alice Springs, there are now plans to open centres in Murray, the Minister for Workforce Participation’s seat; Warringah, the health minister’s seat; Riverina, the former chair of the Family and Community Services Committee’s seat; Dickson, the Assistant Treasurer’s seat; and Bennelong, the Prime Minister’s seat—all contrary to departmental advice? Why are Warringah and Bennelong, which have among the lowest numbers of children eligible to receive child support and the lowest numbers of children in single-parent families, the most appropriate places to put these family services rather than areas such as Alice Springs?

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