CATHERINE KING & GLENN STERLE – MEDIA RELEASE – INLAND RAIL BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD – FRIDAY, 23 APRIL 2021
Friday, 23 April 2021
The Senate Inquiry into the Management of the Inland Rail project yesterday heard that the Morrison Government has no plan where Inland Rail will start, where it will end, the route it will take or how it will interact with existing stations up and down the country. Appearing before the Senate Inquiry, the Australian Rail
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CATHERINE KING & ANDREW GILES – MEDIA RELEASE – THREE MORE COMMUTER CARPARKS TO BE DUMPED – WEDNESDAY, 21 APRIL 2021
Wednesday, 21 April 2021
Reports today that three more commuter carparks at suburban train stations are set to be dumped underline the chaos that is the Morrison Government’s Commuter Carpark Fund. Promised ahead of the 2019 Election, these carparks were meant to ease congestion on busy city roads and get more commuters onto trains. Instead, these ill-thought-out commitments have been
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CATHERINE KING – TRANSCRIPT – RADIO INTERVIEW – ABC VICTORIA STATEWIDE DRIVE – MONDAY, 12 APRIL 2021
Tuesday, 13 April 2021
E&OE TRANSCRIPT RADIO INTERVIEWABC VICTORIA STATEWIDE DRIVEMONDAY, 12 APRIL 2021 SUBJECT: Vaccines. MATT TRIBE, HOST: Joining me is Federal Labor member for Ballarat and former shadow health minister, Catherine King. Catherine, Good afternoon. CATHERINE KING, SHADOW MINISTER FOR INFRASTRUCTURE, TRANSPORT AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT: Good afternoon, Matt. TRIBE: Your colleagues aren’t holding back in their criticism of
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CATHERINE KING – TRANSCRIPT – TELEVISION INTERVIEW – SKY NEWS – SUNDAY, 11 APRIL 2021
Monday, 12 April 2021
E&OE TRANSCRIPT TELEVISION INTERVIEWSKY NEWS “SHARRI”SUNDAY, 11 APRIL 2021 SUBJECTS: Vaccines, domestic violence, China Embassy press conference. SHARRI MARKSON, HOST: Catherine, Australia is safe, we’re COVID free. Many of the issues the Morrison Government is facing when it comes to the delays over the vaccinations are completely, entirely beyond its control, the export controls from the
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CATHERINE KING – MEDIA RELEASE – MORRISON GOVERNMENT RIPS OFF REGIONS AGAIN – WEDNESDAY, 7 APRIL 20
Wednesday, 07 April 2021
Once again, the Morrison Government has put its political interests ahead of regional communities with 112 of 330 projects approved under round three of the Building Better Regions Fund (BBRF) by a secret ministerial panel and against his Department’s recommendations. Unsurprisingly, this is the same round announced in the run up to the 2019 Federal Election that
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CATHERINE KING – TRANSCRIPT – DOORSTOP INTERVIEW – MELBOURNE – WEDNESDAY, 7 APRIL 2021
Wednesday, 07 April 2021
E&OE TRANSCRIPTDOORSTOP INTERVIEWMELBOURNEWEDNESDAY, 7 APRIL 2021 SUBJECTS: Government’s regional rorts; vaccine roll-out; Christine Holgate. CATHERINE KING, SHADOW MINISTER FOR INFRASTRUCTURE, TRANSPORT AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT: Another day and another scandal from the Morrison Government. This comes after a long list of rorts that we’ve seen from the Morrison Government. First we had Sports Rorts where we
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CATHERINE KING – TRANSCRIPT – RADIO INTERVIEW – ABC CAPRICORNIA – WEDNESDAY, 7 APRIL 2021
Wednesday, 07 April 2021
E&OE TRANSCRIPTRADIO INTERVIEWABC CAPRICORNIAWEDNESDAY, 7 APRIL 2021 SUBJECT: Government’s regional rorts. PAUL CULLIVER, HOST: I’m speaking with the Shadow Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development. Good morning to you Catherine King. CATHERINE KING, SHADOW MINISTER FOR INFRASTRUCTURE, TRANSPORT AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT: Good morning. CULLIVER: First of all, how much responsibility should ministers have for
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CATHERINE KING – MEDIA RELEASE – CHEAP FLIGHTS A CHEAP TRICK AS AVIATION WORKERS STOOD DOWN – WEDNESDAY, 31 MARCH 2021
Wednesday, 31 March 2021
Just hours before online sales for the Morrison Government’s much-hyped half-price airfares scheme begins, it has today been revealed as a cheap trick for aviation workers with hundreds of Virgin Australia staff being stood down without pay. The Deputy Prime Minister likes to repeat his line that “planes in the air means jobs on the ground”,
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CATHERINE KING & PATRICK GORMAN – MEDIA RELEASE – LIBERAL MP ABOLISHES TRUTH IN ADVERTISEMENT – TUESDAY, 23 MARCH 2021
Tuesday, 23 March 2021
Liberal Member for Stirling Vince Connelly has been caught out misleading constituents over claims construction of an unfunded road project is set to start “soon”. In an advertisement to his electorate during the WA State Election campaign, Mr Connelly claimed planning was underway and construction was starting soon on a Reid Highway-Erindale Road interchange. Evidence
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CATHERINE KING – TRANSCRIPT – DOORSTOP INTERVIEW – PARLIAMENT HOUSE, CANBERRA – TUESDAY, 23 MARCH 2021
Tuesday, 23 March 2021
E&OE TRANSCRIPTDOORSTOP INTERVIEWPARLIAMENT HOUSE, CANBERRATUESDAY, 23 MARCH 2021 SUBJECTS: Parliament House culture, PM’s failure of leadership, Brittany Higgins. CATHERINE KING, SHADOW MINISTER FOR INFRASTRUCTURE, TRANSPORT AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT: I want to start by acknowledging that there are many, many of our fellow Australians at the moment who are feeling very anxious about the floods that
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