The Minister for Agriculture, Warren Truss, has misled Australia’s recreational and sports fishers about Labor’s fishing policy. Labor’s policy includes funding Recfish Australia as the peak national organisation representing the interests of all Australian recreational and sport fishers, club members and non-club members alike. Mr Truss claimed today that Recfish Australia had received funding from [...]
Yearly Archives: 2001
Alston has ‘luddite’ tag added to ‘global village idiot’.
Communications Minister Senator Alston has been described as the global village idiot. Now he’s the “world’s biggest luddite” according to a leading British online journal. In the latest online issue of The Register, Senator Alston has been ridiculed for comments he made during a debate with Senator Kate Lundy on information technology in Australia. The [...]
Field of Women
ACT Senator Kate Lundy has urged the people of Canberra to join her in raising awareness of breast cancer by participating in the Field of Women 2001 walk this Sunday from Lennox Gardens to the Southern Cross Yacht Club starting at 10.30 am. “Field of Women is a very important way to highlight the fact [...]
Capitals embark on exciting new season
ACT Senator Kate Lundy has wished the Canberra TransACT Capitals well as they embark on an exciting new season in the WNBL. Senator Lundy, the Shadow Minister for Sport, said she was certain the Capitals could go one better this season than last, and recapture the crown they won in season 1999/2000. “I particularly look [...]
Is a vote for Reid a vote for Humphries?
The ACT branch of the Australian Labor Party today called on Senator Margaret Reid to end speculation that senior figures within the Liberal Party are encouraging her to stand down if elected to a further term at the Federal election on 10 November and make way for Chief Minister Gary Humphries. There has been increasing [...]
DMO move another blow to Canberra
“The Howard Government’s decision to shift the Defence Materials Organisation (DMO) from Canberra is another blow to Canberra from the Howard Government and will result in a dramatic downturn in the prospects for small and medium Australian companies in the Defence market,” Senator Lundy said today. “The Coalition’s decision to relocate the DMO from Canberra [...]
Labor urges young people to CLICK HERE TO RESET YOUR DEMOCRACY!
Labor’s Shadow Minister for Youth Affairs, Senator Kate Lundy, has launched her CLICK HERE TO RESET YOUR DEMOCRACY website, urging all young people to enrol and find out about civic process surrounding elections. The launch was co-hosted by the ACT Shadow Minister for Youth Affairs, Simon Corbell MLA, and was attended by Labor members as [...]
A clear choice for the ACT
“The November 10 Federal election is an important opportunity for the voters of the ACT to express their view about Australia’s future security, at home and abroad, ACT Senator Kate Lundy said today. “As Kim Beazley has said, this election is about a secure future for all Australians. “The people of Canberra, and indeed all [...]
ICT TRADE DEFICIT A FEATURE OF COALITION FAILURE
The ICT deficit stands at $16 billion, an increase of 11% compound, since 1996. This presents one of the starkest illustrations of the Howard Government’s profound failure to invest in Australia’s future.” Senator Lundy, Shadow Minister Assisting on Information Technology, said today. This deficit is continuing to increase because medium size companies that manufacture indigenous [...]
Tax Office outsourcing problems exposed
The Assistant Treasurer, Rod Kemp, admitted in Senate Question Time today that Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has paid extraordinarily high prices for basic information technology and office equipment under their outsourcing deal with EDS. EDS, a multinational with a five-year contract worth $487 million with the Australian Taxation Office, is reported as significantly overcharging the [...]
