Centrelink Assistance for Severe Weather
Centrelink is providing assistance on behalf of the Australian Government to people affected by the floods and severe weather conditions being experienced in Queensland and other areas of Australia. As part of a package of assistance, Disaster Income Recovery Subsidy is available to a range of foreign nationals, such as those on temporary skilled visas, New Zealand nationals on temporary visas and temporary family class visas, who were living or working in Australia at the time of the disaster and have experienced a loss of income as a direct result of the disaster.Information on the assistance Centrelink is providing is currently available in English on Centrelink's website. Relevant fact sheets are being translated into 13 languages and published on the We speak your language section of the Centrelink Website. Information will be broadcast on SBS national radio in 15 languages and published in-language in a number of ethnic newspapers shortly. In addition, the Centrelink website contains details of Centrelink offices closed due to flooding and special arrangements for customers residing in the affected areas
Please find a link to the relevant part of the Centrelink web site below.
Centrelink assistance for flooding and severe weather November 2010 - January 2011
Acknowledgements
Centre for Cultural Diversity in Ageing acknowledges and pays respect to the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation, on whose land this website was developed. We pay our respects to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, their ancestors and elders, both past and present and acknowledge their continuing connection to land, sea and community. We hope our work contributes to the wider project of respect and recognition between cultures in Australia. Centre for Cultural Diversity in Ageing receives project funding from the Australian Department of Health and Aged Care to administer the Partners in Culturally Appropriate Care (PICAC) program in Victoria.
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37%
37% of people aged 65 years and over in Australia were born overseas.
400
There are over 400 separately identified languages spoken in Australian homes.
120
Australians follow more than 120 religious and spiritual beliefs.
28% & 20%
28% percent of people using home care and 20% percent of people using permanent residential care are from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
36%
36% of care attendants in residential aged care are identified as being from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
250
Australia’s Indigenous peoples are two distinct cultural groups made up of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. But there is great diversity within these two broadly described groups exemplified by the over 250 different language groups spread across the nation.