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March 25, 2024

Live sheep export transition to higher value chilled and frozen trade

If anyone wants an example of massive obvious change, it would be very hard to go past the fact that over the last 20 years the live sheep trade has declined by more than 90 per cent.

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March 20, 2024

Labor is fixing the broken Administrative Appeals Tribunal

The previous government has never had much regard for Australia’s Public Service. It’s always been looking to crunch Australian’s Public Service into smaller and smaller pieces, outsource its work, underpay its staff, knock people’s morale around and casualise roles within those sectors. That is part of what happened to the AAT.

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March 20, 2024

Tabling of JSCOT Report 214 – Acts of the Universal Postal Union

As a result of the declining use of letters and increased volume of parcels, in addition to the fact that the majority of parcels are now being handled by operators outside the UPU system, the UPU has sensibly initiated work to open itself up to wider postal sector players and to modernise the institution in order to deliver better outcomes.

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March 20, 2024

Visit to Jilbup Primary School

Jilbup Primary is, of course, a fresh instalment of high quality public school education infrastructure, thanks to the Cook Labor government. It will benefit hugely from the brilliant shared effort between state and federal Labor governments, with $770 million from the Albanese government to make WA the first jurisdiction to reach 100 per cent of the Schooling Resource Standard.

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March 18, 2024

Good sleep is vital for good health

There’s certainly evidence that too many Australians sleep badly and that too many of us are taking poor sleep for granted, or, at least, feeling like there’s no real alternative other than to put up with something we assume can’t be fixed. That’s wrong, and it’s consigning millions of Australians to unnecessary and sometimes quite serious impacts on their physical and mental health with broader consequences for productivity and health system costs.

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February 28, 2024

Report on Treaties Committee Delegation to India and Singapore

The delegation’s visit to India and Singapore allowed members of the committee to discuss and examine firsthand the impacts of the various treaties and agreements which are shaping our engagement and collaboration.

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February 27, 2024

Labor is securing Fremantle’s shipbuilding future

As an island continent, we must have a properly equipped Navy and we must maintain a first-rate standard of sovereign shipbuilding capacity. The Albanese Labor government sees that very clearly, and we’re taking action to make sure that the shipbuilding hub at the Australian Marine Complex at Henderson, in my electorate of Fremantle, is secure and growing in its role as a national centre of manufacturing excellence.

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February 26, 2024

‘Help to Buy’ scheme will help more home-buyers

The Commonwealth has a role to help support housing options for all Australians, but particularly for those fleeing domestic violence, as well as younger, low-income, older, and poorer Australians. The Help to Buy 2023 Bill is one of those measures, along with a whole range of things that we’re doing after a decade of neglect.

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February 14, 2024

Julian Assange must go free

We must never forget that, contrary to the idea that our safety and well-being depends more than anything else on secrecy, the reality is that our safety and well-being is at enormous risk when the most grave applications of state power are not held to account.

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February 12, 2024

Albanese Government fully funding WA schools

Education is the great driver and guarantor of opportunity and equality. It’s the best way of supporting social mobility and of resisting the socioeconomic factors that otherwise limit a child’s potential as a result of their postcode or circumstances.

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