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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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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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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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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