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| Subject: LOL, statist advice service fails to woo couples Sat Aug 02, 2014 8:25 pm | |
| Kevin Andrews' love revolution is a slow burner.
Almost all of the free relationship counselling vouchers under the Social Services Minister's scheme to introduce more harmony in Australians' love lives remain up for grabs.
With a limit of 100,000 vouchers available to couples, a spokeswoman for Mr Andrews urged people to register as ''soon as possible'' when the scheme launched on July 1.
So far, only about 1400 couples have taken the government up on the offer, leaving about 98,600 vouchers going spare for sessions on parenting, conflict resolution and financial management.
Mr Andrews - who is a fan of regular marriage counselling himself - has labelled the initial take up ''very encouraging''. ''I believe as more people hear about this program, more couples will take advantage of the offer,'' he said.
While the $200 vouchers are open to all committed couples over the age of 18 regardless of their marital status or sexuality, most people who have registered are between 25 and 34 years old and are engaged to be married.
http://www.smh.com.au/national/advice-service-fails-to-woo-couples-20140802-3d0up.html |
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