KEYNOTE ADDRESS TO AUSTRALIAN LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION’S NATIONAL ROADS AND TRANSPORT CONFERENCE
Wednesday, 20 November 2019
Check against delivery Good morning and it’s a pleasure to join you here today. I begin by acknowledging the traditional owners of the land upon which we meet, and I pay my respects to their elders past, present and emerging. To President David O’Loughlin and to Adrian and the team at ALGA, thank you for
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SCOTT MORRISON’S CRUEL CUTS TO CAIRNS HOSPITAL
Friday, 28 September 2018
Scott Morrison’s hospital cuts will hit Cairns hard, leaving local residents facing longer wait times for elective surgery and emergency treatment. The Liberals have slashed more than $7 million in funding from Cairns Hospital – one of the deepest cuts from any hospital in Queensland – and the effects are already being felt. As Treasurer,
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TURNBULL CUTTING $5.71 MILLION OUT OF THE BALLARAT REGION’S PUBLIC HOSPITALS
Tuesday, 27 March 2018
Surgeries will be delayed, nurse and doctor numbers will decline and emergency department wait times will increase all throughout the Ballarat region, with the Turnbull Government cutting $5.71 million from local public hospitals from 2017-2020. Turnbull is cutting hundreds of millions out of Australia’s public hospitals between 2017- 2020, with Ballarat Health Services facing a
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140,000 APPRENTICES LOST UNDER THE LIBERALS AND NATIONALS – HANSON’S ‘DEAL’ FOR 1000 IS A JOKE
Monday, 26 March 2018
Federal member for Ballarat Catherine King has today slammed Pauline Hanson’s deal to deliver $65 billion in tax cuts for the big end of town in exchange for 1000 apprenticeships as a pathetic con job. Since the Liberals and Nationals came to government Australia has lost over 140,000 apprenticeships – a decline of over 35
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