The Coalition Government must do more to encourage Australians to partake in regular physical activity, following the release of a report by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare confirming that lack of fitness and regular physical exercise often results in increased risk of major illness, especially cardiovascular disease. Whilst the relationship between increased physical [...]
Monthly Archives: June 2002
Labor welcomes conference on Developing Sport Education Opportunities in the bush
The Labor Party has welcomed an initiative by the Australian Sports Commission to host a conference examining the reasons behind the current inequity of access to sport opportunities for rural and regional areas of Australia. The Australian Sports Commission’s Sport Education Section (SES) will be conducting the conference, to be held in Yeppoon, Queensland, from [...]
Kemp puts foot in mouth over AIS
Senator Rod Kemp can’t help putting his foot in his mouth. Instead of allowing negotiations to take place between the ACT Government and the Australian Institute of Sport over the proposed Gungahlin Drive Extension in good faith, Senator Kemp again used Senate Question Time to make misleading comments. Labor has consistently urged the Australian Sports [...]
Senate inquires into universal broadband access and role of public libraries in providing Internet access.
The Australian Labor Party, in conjunction with the Democrats, today initiated two Senate inquiries; one into universal broadband access and one into the role of public libraries in providing public Internet access. The Senate Environment, Communications, information Technology and Arts References Committee will conduct both the inquiries. In relation to broadband access, the purpose of [...]
The Policy and Politics of E-Security
The Policy and Politics of E-Security INSTO Keynote Address 25 June 2002 Westin Hotel, Sydney There probably is not a word that is more representative or more relevant to our current social, economic and cultural mood. Security is both a sentiment and tangible. It cannot be compromised. It is sacred. It is an issue that [...]
Childcare Web Page Launch
11 am Monday 24 June 2002 Central Canberra Family Day Care, 16 Balmain Lane, Acton Unions, employers, childcare professionals, government and parents all play a role in providing quality care for our children. Recognising that childcare is everyone’s responsibility is what this website and childcare campaign is all about. The website can be accessed by [...]
Online parents’ network for a Childcare campaign launched today
A parents’ network designed to be accessed via the Internet has been launched at the Central Canberra Family Day Care Centre in Acton today. This web page is designed to involve parents in the campaign to raise awareness about the benefits of childcare to the community as a whole. The theme of the campaign is [...]
Coalition vague on ICT procurement assistance for SMEs
The Coalition has paid only lip-service to small to medium enterprise (SME) concerns about Australian industry development in a recent announcement about information and communications technology (ICT) outsourcing arrangements, the Shadow Minister for Information Technology, Senator Kate Lundy, said today. “Labor is looking for a genuine commitment from the Coalition to create real opportunities for [...]
Census internet figures indicate that the job is only half done
Australians should be congratulated for being so quick to adopt the Internet as a new communications medium, Senator Kate Lundy, the Shadow Minister for Information Technology, said today. New ABS figures show that almost 7 million Australians had used the internet in the week preceding the 2001 Census. “Email and the World Wide Web are [...]
AFL fans get raw deal – again
AFL fans in the ACT have once again been treated shabbily, with no coverage of the important Collingwood versus Fremantle match on free-to-air television this Sunday. Instead of showing the Collingwood v Fremantle match, WIN Television (and Nine in Sydney) will be screening The Battle of the Bulge, a 1965 war drama starring Henry Fonda. [...]
