A Crean Labor Government will invest $25 million over four years to establish a new fund to promote community wellbeing and reduce childhood obesity. Today’s policy release – Tackling Obesity and Promoting Community Wellbeing: Labor’s Plan for a Healthier and More Active Australia – is the first concerted federal effort to improve the general health [...]
Monthly Archives: October 2003
Sport Minister can’t read, can’t count
Labor has committed $25 million dollars of NEW money to their key health initiative Tackling Obesity and Promoting Community Wellbeing: Labor’s Plan for a Healthier and More Active Australia. This is clearly stated in our policy paper. However, actually reading Labor’s comprehensive yet concise policy document proved too much for the Minister for Sport. Contrary [...]
Wellbeing Policy
2003 Sports Industry Leaders Summit 14 October 2003 “Giving Our Kids a Sporting Chance” A National Approach to Overcoming Childhood Obesity Labor Policy Announcement: Tackling Obesity and Promoting Community Wellbeing: Labor’s plan for a healthy and more active Australia. Thank you for the opportunity to speak here today. The obesity issue is not a new [...]
Consumers lose as Telstra slows ADSL to protect Foxtel
Australian consumers are missing out on high-speed broadband services as Telstra protects its stake in Foxtel. Telstra’s ownership of the copper network and its 50% stake in Foxtel has contributed to its decision to artificially limit the speed of ADSL “broadband” services, a Senate Committee heard today. In a startling revelation, Dr Paul Brooks from [...]
ICT Offshoring
‘Women are IT’ Debate and Discussion Australia v’s Offshore – how can Australia win? Melbourne 10 October 2003 I’m pleased to get a chance to speak to the issue of ICT Offshoring. It’s obviously an important topic, and it’s not going away, but it has achieved special relevance with Telstra announcing a new $75 million [...]
Labor will protect consumers and improve anti-spam legislation
After eighteen months, the Howard Government’s anti-spam legislation still needs improvement. Labor is pleased the Government is finally taking this issue seriously. We need laws to prevent the large numbers of unwanted and sometimes offensive emails clogging up Australian in-boxes, costing consumers and businesses money. Improvements that Labor will be seeking to the two [...]
Alston’s final gift: more lip service
After seven years, Richard Alston has used his last day as Minister for the Arts to once again pay lip service to the Howard Government’s plans to introduce new legislation for a Resale Royalty scheme; a commitment Labor has already made to the visual arts sector. The Australian Arts community and Indigenous Arts groups [...]
Emerging Indigenous artists must be protected
Labor welcomes the announcement of long awaited support for indigenous art centres, providing that the proposed performance based funding scheme does not negatively impact upon emerging indigenous artists and their communities. It is also disappointing that the Howard Government has not endorsed a key Myer Report recommendation: the introduction of Resale Royalties for Artists. A [...]
Future-proofing a scam: Telstra Inquiry
The Senate inquiry into the Telstra sale bill has exposed the Howard Government’s claim that the network be “future-proofed” as a complete scam. Telstra is still installing cheap ‘line splitting’ equipment in rural and regional Australia despite it halving dial-up internet connection speeds and blocking ADSL (broadband) services. In short, this means that rural and [...]
