CATHERINE KING & ANDREW GILES – MEDIA RELEASE – ANOTHER 5 COMMUTER CARPARKS FALL VICTIM TO MORRISON GOVERNMENT DEBACLE – TUESDAY, 18 MAY 2021
Tuesday, 18 May 2021
The Morrison Government’s Commuter Carpark debacle has widened overnight, with another five promised carparks joining South Morang on the chopping block. Coming just weeks before the release of a highly anticipated ANAO report, the latest development in this rolling fiasco of an infrastructure program means that commuters at Brighton Beach, Balaclava, Mitcham, Kananook and Seaford
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KING & BUTLER – MEDIA RELEASE – WESTERN SYDNEY AIRPORT ENVIRONMENTAL “OFFSETS” – THURSDAY, 29 APRIL, 2021
Wednesday, 12 May 2021
Labor is deeply troubled by reports in the Guardian Australia yesterday that the federal Department of Infrastructure has purchased environmental offsets associated with Western Sydney Airport from organisations and individuals who have consulted for government on those very same projects. The Morrison Government must urgently explain the expenditure of $37.5 million on the selected offset sites. What
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CATHERINE KING – SPEECH – TWU CONFERENCE SPEECH – DARWIN – THURSDAY, 6 MAY 2021
Wednesday, 12 May 2021
DARWIN THURSDAY, 6 MAY 2021 *** CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY *** Thank you very much for the invitation to address you all today. After a year of meeting over zoom, remotely delivering speeches and cancelled interstate trips, it is a pleasure to once more stand in front of a crowd of friendly faces. We might not be back to normal
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CATHERINE KING – MEDIA RELEASE – SO MUCH FOR AN INFRASTRUCTURE BUDGET: $3.3B WORTH OF CUTS OVER THE NEXT FOUR YEARS – WEDNESDAY, 12 MAY 2021
Wednesday, 12 May 2021
After spending all day on Monday talking about their supposed record investment in infrastructure, a close read of the Budget Papers reveals the reality of more cuts and years-long delays to the projects Australians need. What the Morrison Government press release didn’t tell us is that there will be a $3.3 billion cut to infrastructure
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CATHERINE KING – TRANSCRIPT – RADIO INTERVIEW – AUSTRALIA TODAY WITH STEVE PRICE – TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2021
Tuesday, 11 May 2021
E&OE TRANSCRIPTRADIO INTERVIEWSCA RADIO AUSTRALIA TODAY WITH STEVE PRICETUESDAY, 11 MAY 2021 SUBJECTS: Morrison Government’s latest infrastructure announcements; 2021 Budget, Tourism, Affordable housing. STEVE PRICE, HOST: Figures compiled by the Australian Automobile Association, according to the Australian Financial Review today, show that $4.4 billion has been committed in the last five budgets, a shortfall of
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CATHERINE KING – TRANSCRIPT – DOORSTOP INTERVIEW – PARLIAMENT HOUSE, CANBERRA – MONDAY, 10 MAY 2021
Monday, 10 May 2021
SUBJECT: Morrison Government’s latest infrastructure announcements. CATHERINE KING, SHADOW MINISTER FOR INFRASTRUCTURE, TRANSPORT AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT: Today, yet again, we’ve got an announcement from the government around infrastructure. This government, every time it announces infrastructure projects you have to look at the fine print. What we see again is a government that has spent almost
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CATHERINE KING – TRANSCRIPT – TELEVISION INTERVIEW – SKY NEWS WITH TOM CONNELL – MONDAY, 10 MAY 2021
Monday, 10 May 2021
SUBJECTS: Morrison Government’s latest infrastructure announcements; China. TOM CONNELL, HOST: Joining me live is Catherine King, Shadow Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development. Thanks for your time. You’ve read no doubt about the planned additional spend today. What have you made of it? CATHERINE KING, SHADOW MINISTER FOR INFRASTRUCTURE, TRANSPORT AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT: Well
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DREYFUS, KING & BUTLER – MEDIA RELEASE – NEW AIRPORT LAND DEAL SHOWS WE NEED A NATIONAL INTEGRITY COMMISSION NOW – FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2021
Friday, 07 May 2021
Further revelations around land deals in Western Sydney by the Coalition Government again highlights the need for a national anti-corruption commission. The NSW Government has today referred its purchases of tens of millions of dollars in environmental offsets in Western Sydney to its Independent Commission Against Corruption after questions were raised about possible conflicts of interest.
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KRISTINA KENEALLY & CATHERINE KING – MEDIA RELEASE – MORRISON’S BUILDING BETTER RORTS FUND EXPOSED – FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2021
Friday, 07 May 2021
The Morrison Government has been caught out pork barrelling and rorting taxpayer money again this time through the Building Better Regions Fund (BBRF). 44 of the 163 grants went to seats held by Michael McCormack and three of his ministerial mates who decide which projects gets funded. This funding was meant to help communities
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CATHERINE KING – MEDIA RELEASE – LABOR WELCOMES APPOINTMENT OF PIP SPENCE AS CASA CEO – MONDAY, 26 APRIL 2021
Monday, 26 April 2021
Labor welcomes the appointment of a new team to head the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA), with Pip Spence appointed as CEO and Director of Aviation Safety and former Defence Force Chief Mark Binskin appointed as board chair. CASA is responsible for ensuring that Australia’s aviation sector is well-regulated and, most importantly, safe. The appointment of Ms
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