Labor wishes the Australian netball team the best of luck tonight as they take on arch rivals New Zealand in Wellington. The game is the first of a three match test series across the Tasman. The last test series was played in Australia with each team winning a match. I wish we could see more [...]
Yearly Archives: 2006
Radio Kate: Cross Media Laws – Two Canberra Outlets at Risk
Transcript Howard’s changes to cross media laws are bad news for Canberra because it could lead to the loss of two of the current six commercial media voices in this region. The National Party’s deal provides no safeguard or benefit here because the local outlets already provide more local content than is required under the [...]
More than 10,000 Canberra Votes at Risk
Are you on the Electoral Roll? Senator Kate Lundy together with Bob McMullan, Member for Fraser, and Annette Ellis, Member for Canberra, have today launched a campaign to make sure Canberrans are correctly enrolled on the ACT electoral roll before changes to the Commonwealth Electoral Act commence on December 11. Under the new rules, in [...]
Radio Kate: Canberra Voters At Risk
Transcript ACT Federal Labor representatives have launched a campaign to make sure Canberrans are correctly enrolled before changes to the Commonwealth Electoral Act commence on December 11. Under the new rules, when an election is announced by the Prime Minister, new voters will no longer have a week to enrol and existing voters no opportunity [...]
Software Freedom Day 2006
SFD Conference University of NSW, Sydney Thank you for having me here today to speak and celebrate international software freedom day! I want to give you an insight into how federal politics and policies impact upon Free and Open Source Software in Australia. There are three main areas of effect: Firstly, the Commonwealth Government as [...]
Radio Kate: Cross Media Laws
Transcript The Howard Government’s attack on cross media laws will result in a weakening of our democracy because a strong democratic society is one where its citizens are informed by quality, diverse media for news, current affairs and opinion. While the original cross media laws were designed to prevent concentration of media ownership, Howard’s changes [...]
Canberra Media Diversity at Risk
Evidence to Cross Media Inquiry shows Canberra diversity at risk I am gravely concerned that the Howard Government’s attempt to undermine Australia’s Cross Media laws will have a negative impact on the diversity of Canberra’s media. The Senate inquiry into the Cross Media Amendment Bills is proceeding in Canberra today and tomorrow. In a comprehensive [...]
Fair deal for Australia’s leading netballers
Labor commends the work of Netball Australia and the Australian Netball Players Association (ANPA), who have been able to come to an agreement over daily allowances paid to players representing Australia. While the $200 daily allowance is still substantially below the allowances paid to players representing Australia in a number of major sports, the allowance [...]
Radio Kate: My Blog – Crikey Article
Transcript (This is the text of an article I wrote for Crikey, Forget political spin, start blogging, and the transcript of the audio file.) Communicating meaningfully with the people I represent is what my blog tries to achieve. Not everyone reads the paper or newsletter or has time to watch the news and this is [...]
457 visa program mismanagement fails everyone
457 visa program mismanagement fails everyone: local workers, skilled migrants and industry. The Minister for Immigration has announced that 510 Skilled Migrants came into the ACT in 2005-2006. The construction industry saw the biggest percentage increase in the use of 457 temporary skilled migration visas with a 263% increase! Despite the Minister’s claims of how [...]
