All of Australia will be behind the Australian Socceroos tonight as they take on Uruguay in the final qualifier for the 2006 World Cup Finals. In what will certainly be a thrilling and heart stopping match, I know that all Australians will be filled with pride and admiration as the Socceroos take the field in [...]
Yearly Archives: 2005
Telstra’s job cuts and CDMA shutdown show customers are last in Telstra’s priorities
What is going on in Telstra? Does Telstra think that customers are stupid? After the hard sell of CDMA into Canberra by their local, earnest, yet completely unreliable sales team, Canberrans awoke to the news that service will be shut down over the next three years. Does that mean people have to wait three years [...]
Massive Canberra turnout demonstrates commitment
Today’s community industrial relations protest saw at least 5,000 Canberran’s joining hundreds of thousands of workers across the country, turning out for the biggest combined protest in Australia’s history. Despite the desperate attempts by the Howard Government to sabotage the Canberra protest by intimidating and bullying Commonwealth public servants through a series of confusing and [...]
Howard Government uses threats and bullying to sabotage community IR protest
Some Commonwealth Public Servants are being threatened with retribution if they attend the National Day of Community Protest at Canberra’s Thoroughbred Park tomorrow. There have also been confusing and conflicting messages to employees from a range of federal agencies and departments in an attempt to create uncertainty amongst commonwealth employees about their attendance at the [...]
Minister Kemp up to his neck in Rorts
The Howard Government announced 38 specific sports facility grants during last year’s election campaign. The overwhelming majority of these grants were in marginal Liberal seats, a staggering 22 grants were shared between only two marginal Liberal seats: McEwen in Victoria and Makin in South Australia. Today Senator Lundy accused the Government of cynically using the [...]
Walking School Bus a great start
ACT Labor Senator Kate Lundy will board Giralang Primary School’s Walking School Bus this morning, during Children’s Week to highlight a great initiative in our community that addresses our children’s wellbeing. “It is now widely accepted that our children are leading far more sedentary lifestyles which combined with a generally poorer diet, has lead to [...]
Belconnen Blue Devils should be reinstated
The Belconnen Blue Devils, the ACT’s premier football team, have been omitted from the 2006 NSW Premier League Season after teams to form the competition were announced late last week. ”This disappointing decision comes despite the team qualifying for finals in four of the five seasons they have competed in the competition – so this [...]
Stanhope’s web spotlight foils Howard Government secrecy on terror
By putting the proposed anti-terror legislation up on the internet, the ACT’s Chief Minister Jon Stanhope has done a great public service to Australians. The Howard Government hoped to prevent detailed scrutiny and debate of this legislation and in a bold move Mr Stanhope has circumvented this attempted secrecy by placing the draft bills on [...]
Government Does Nothing as Australian’s Weight Balloons
The Howard Government has done nothing to arrest the dramatic rise of obesity amongst Australians. Current estimates suggest that 2.4 million Australian adults are obese and a further 4.9 million are overweight. Levels of obesity amongst women have doubled in the last 15 years. Children’s obesity is estimated to have nearly tripled in the last ten [...]
Obesity Increases
Australians are getting bigger. Senator LUNDY (Australian Capital Territory) (10.22 pm)-Tonight I rise to once again bring the Senate’s attention to one of the most glaring policy failures after nine long years of the Howard government: Australia’s general population is physically bigger. Current estimates suggest that 2.4 million Australian adults are obese and a further [...]
