Senator Lundy today called upon all sporting organisations to take responsibility for ensuring that the promotion of women’s sport is not reliant on athlete’s uniforms being designed to showcase perceived sex appeal. “Any decision that changes the dress code for female athletes from loose to body hugging lycra uniforms is sending the wrong message to [...]
Yearly Archives: 1998
National Children’s Summit highlights leadership void
Senator Kate Lundy, Federal Shadow Minister for Youth Affairs, today condemned the Prime Minister, Mr Howard, and his Minister for Youth Affairs, Dr Kemp, for failing to show leadership on youth issues. “The National Children’s Summit currently being held at Parliament House has highlighted the fact that the Community has had to take the lead [...]
Critical Infrastructure
Critical Infrastructure Protection Senate: MATTERS OF PUBLIC INTEREST Senator LUNDY (Australian Capital Territory) (1.52 p.m.)—Wednesday 2 December 1998 I rise today to alert the Senate to issues of vital national interest that this government has been exceptionally tardy in addressing. Right now, we have a unique window of opportunity to shape our future and to [...]
Government continues to block release of Y2K Documents
Senator Kate Lundy, Shadow Minister Assisting on Information Technology, today condemned the Government for refusing to release individual Commonwealth reports outlining the preparedness of each of the 37 departments and agencies to deal with the Millennium Bug. “It is clear from the Government’s action in voting against the order for the production of documents in [...]
E-Commerce & GST
Electronic Commerce and the Goods and Services Tax – Implementation Senate Adjournment Debate Senator LUNDY (Australian Capital Territory) Tuesday 1 December 1998 – 7.28 p.m One of the greatest ironies of the recent election was that, whilst economic commentators lamented the lack of scope in the tax debate, crucial elements of Labor’s tax package were [...]
ALP web page – a hit for on-line citizens
“During the recent federal election campaign, the ALP web site had over 1.6 million visits “, Senator Kate Lundy revealed today at a forum of party colleagues in Canberra. “The ALP experienced an ‘order of magnitude’ increase in the number of times people visited the party’s web page, peaking at 100,000 visits the day Kim [...]
Howard’s e-comm ‘agreement’ merely an OECD echo
“Yesterday’s announcement by Prime Minister Howard that Australia has agreed to a joint approach on e-commerce with the United States is not so much a negotiated bilateral agreement but simply the US imposing its preferred position on Australia, said Senator Kate Lundy, Shadow Minister assisting on Information Technology. “Many of the issues Mr Howard claims [...]
Water safety should be a priority
The Federal Government could do more to reduce the number of drownings each summer by providing funding for sports and recreational organisations involved in water activities, the Shadow Minister for Sport, Senator Kate Lundy, said today. In the last 25 years, approximately 2000 Australian children have died from drowning. In the last year alone over [...]
Kemp’s Youth Roundtable failing before it begins
Senator Kate Lundy, Shadow Minister for Sport and Youth Affairs, today condemned the Government for its failure to encourage young people to nominate for the National Youth Roundtable. “The Government’s move to extend the close of nominations because of the clear lack of interest indicated that Australia’s youth were also sceptical of the process and [...]
On-line forum ‘explore.cyberculture’ to consider social implications of the internet
Tomorrow has been nominated by as On-line day. As part of the day’s activities, the explore.cyberculture forum will focus on the social implications of the Internet. explore.cyberculture is being hosted by VICNET ans is both an on-line (streamed) and live event. Time: 10-11am Where: The lawns of the Victorian State Library. Check out the site [...]
