New data has revealed families in Cockburn are being hammered by soaring childcare fees.
Read more...The latest NBN performance report and addition of suburbs listed for upgrade from copper to fibre still leaves WA short-changed, with the Morrison-Joyce government refusing to prioritise the state that has been lumped with the highest proportion of the worst NBN technology.
Read more...Projects for 15 community and sporting groups across the federal electorate of Fremantle are currently at or near completion thanks to a total of $150,000 in Stronger Communities Programme funding.
Read more...At a time when the need for social housing far outweighs supply we should make sure our economic recovery is channelled through lasting investments in reducing inequality and creating shared wellbeing.”
Read more...In the eight long years of the Abbott-Turnbull-Morrison government, the cost of accessing health care has soared across the federal electorate of Fremantle, and now Scott Morrison is using the cover of Victoria’s COVID outbreak to sneak in hundreds of changes to Medicare Benefit Schedule items that will increase cost and decrease access.
Read more...Film-making is one of a number of creative industries that should be a foundation stone of Australia’s economic diversification and job creation in future. Screen industries – which include film & television, but also gaming – are exactly the kind of sophisticated, high-tech, and high-skill human capital dependent manufacturing that we should be looking to build.
Read more...In its 8th year the Morrison government has delivered a tired flabby budget that is built on eye-watering levels of debt and aimed at addressing its political problems.
Read more...This week’s announcement of $411,000 in Australian Heritage Grant funding for Fremantle Prison is a welcome contribution to further improvement of the UNESCO World Heritage-listed site, especially with respect to the critical area of Indigenous heritage.
Read more...Labor welcomes the Morrison Government’s acknowledgement of serious and costly shortcomings in the regulatory system that cover the critical issue of how to ensure the proper and timely decommissioning of oil & gas infrastructure in Australian waters.
Read more...This is no ordinary Budget. It comes at a time when Australia is caught in the turmoil of a global pandemic with severe impacts on our economy and our way of life. We now face the first recession in 30 years and we do so from a weak foundation as a result of stagnant wages, low productivity, under-investment in education, and galloping debt.
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