Kim Beazley, Leader of the Opposition and Senator Kate Lundy, Shadow Minister for Sport and Recreation Labor congratulates the Australian women’s football team, the Matildas, for their performance at the Asian Football Confederation Cup and their automatic qualification for the 2007 FIFA World Cup in China. The Matildas were unlucky to go down to China [...]
Monthly Archives: July 2006
Radio Kate: Industrial Relations – Filipino chefs and cooks
Transcript There’s been another breakthrough in the dispute against the Canberra restaurants involved with the Filipino chefs and cooks. What we now know is that Zeffirelli’s Restaurant have paid all monies outstanding to the people who were in their employ when the dispute first started. This is an important breakthrough and a further vindication that [...]
Radio Kate: Childhood Obesity
Transcript The Health Minister Tony Abbott has made a fool of himself by rejecting the Labor State Health Ministers attempt to pull together a national taskforce to tackle childhood obesity. Labor’s view on the other hand is we need to get involved with this taskforce and work with our State Health Ministers to come up [...]
Re-brand, re-hash and re-announce – that’s this Government’s way
The Government’s obesity announcement today represents a re-branded, re-hashed mish-mash of existing initiatives. The only new announcement is the National Nutrition Survey, which should have been done years ago! It has been 10 long years since the last National Nutrition Survey so today’s news that another will finally be done under the Howard Government is [...]
Radio Kate: National Nutritional Survey
Transcript The Government’s obesity announcement represents a re-branded, re-hashed mish-mash of existing initiatives. The only new announcement is the National Nutrition Survey, which should have been done years ago. It has been 10 long years since the last National Nutrition Survey, so today’s news that another will finally be done under the Howard Government is [...]
Kate’s View: North Melbourne Football Club
Transcript (Interview with journalist Bill D’Arcy) Hi Kate. Hi. How are you. Good thank you. You’ve announced that you’re disappointed the Kangaroos are moving north. What lies at the heart of your disappointment. What I am disappointed about is, I think it’s critically important for the people of the ACT and the region to have [...]
Radio Kate: North Melbourne Football Club
Transcript I am really disappointed that the Kangaroos are moving north. I think the AFL has an obligation to all of Australia, not just the State capitals to make sure their game is truly national. And that means having an ongoing presence here in Canberra. I am pleased the ACT Minister for Sport is [...]
Clear guidelines still needed for athlete fund
It is about time Sports Minister Rod Kemp improved the way the funding is provided to our elite athletes. As more details emerge about the Government’s scheme, formerly Direct Athlete Support (DAS), now re-badged Australian Government Sport Training Grant (AGSTG), Labor hopes that the Minister also includes specific guidelines and criteria for the distribution of [...]
Kangaroos or not … keep AFL in Canberra
I am disappointed with the decision today that the Kangaroos will no longer play three of their home games in Canberra. It is my hope that the campaign to keep the Kangaroos in Canberra stands as a strong reminder to the AFL that the sport’s future is not just about where the money is – [...]
Labor Senator Kate Lundy addresses LHMU Union Delegate’s
“A Federal Labor Government will rip up John Howard’s extreme industrial relations laws” Senator Lundy said today in her address to a delegate’s convention of the Liquor Hospitality and Miscellaneous Union (LHMU) in Canberra this week. John Howard’s dog-eat-dog industrial relations world pits worker against worker. Labor will get rid of this brutal and unfair [...]
