Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C01281:clause:1ab_43
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C01281
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1AB cl 43
Character Range: 349800–354599

43        Financial Wellbeing and Capability                                                                                                                   To:
                                                                                                                                                               (a) improve the financial knowledge, skills and capabilities and financial resilience of vulnerable individuals and families; and
                                                                                                                                                               (b) in relation to problem gambling:
                                                                                                                                                               (i) alleviate the immediate impact of financial stress; and
                                                                                                                                                               (ii) progress initiatives and assist those at risk of homelessness;
                                                                                                                                                               by providing funding for the following:
                                                                                                                                                               (c) crisis support, financial capability‑building services, financial counselling and access to microfinance products;
                                                                                                                                                               (d) research and consultation, engagement activities and expert advice to inform the Commonwealth on issues relating to problem gambling.
                                                                                                                                                               This objective also has the effect it would have if it were limited to providing finding:
                                                                                                                                                               (a) by providing unemployment benefits; or
                                                                                                                                                               (b) by engaging in measures to meet Australia's international obligations in relation to children, in particular those under the Convention on the Rights of the Child; or
                                                                                                                                                               (c) by engaging in measures to meet Australia's international obligations in relation to persons with disabilities, in particular obligations under the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; or
                                                                                                                                                               (d) in a Territory; or
                                                                                                                                                               (e) by providing assistance to trading, financial and foreign corporations to which paragraph 51(xx) of the Constitution applies where the assistance relates to the existing activities of the corporations; or
                                                                                                                                                               (f) in relation to aliens or immigrants; or
                                                                                                                                                               (g) to assist persons who are insolvent or bankrupt to manage their insolvency or bankruptcy; or
                                                                                                                                                               (h) by providing grants of financial assistance to a State or Territory; or
                                                                                                                                                               (i) by engaging in measures that are peculiarly adapted to the government of a nation and cannot otherwise be carried on for the benefit of the nation; or
                                                                                                                                                               (j) in the exercise of the executive power of the Commonwealth.