Senator Kate Lundy today attended the opening of three adaptable housing units in Weavell Place, Kambah . The units are part of the ACT Governments comprehensive plan to provide Canberrans with more affordable and adaptable housing options and demonstrate the ACT Governments initiative when it comes to building versatile housing. ‘Adaptable housing’ means that a structure that [...]
Monthly Archives: June 2007
Petrol Spotlight 07
On the Queen’s Birthday on the June 2007 long weekend, I want to shine a spotlight on petrol pricing in the ACT. I need your help! Residents are sceptical and fed up with petrol prices going up before long weekends and on public service paydays, so by recording the local petrol prices around Canberra, I [...]
Howard’s catch-up broadband pitch no help to Canberrans still in the broadband backwater
The Howard Government’s so-called Australia Connected ignores the plight of thousands of people in city, suburban and outer metropolitan areas that are denied access to broadband because of the poor quality of existing infrastructure. The recent Gungahlin Broadband Survey, conducted by Senator Kate Lundy, showed that Canberrans are still in the broadband backwater with 74 [...]
Howard Government willing to support anything in an attempt to save face on illicit drugs in sport
It appears that Ministers Brandis and Pyne will support any policy on illicit drugs in sport as long as it is different to the AFL. This morning, Minister Chris Pyne gave ‘a great salute’ to the NRL’s approach to illicit drugs in sport and went on to say: “George Brandis and I regard the NRL’s [...]
Children’s Health
Adjournment Speech 19 June 2007 Children’s Health Senator Lundy (Australian Capital Territory) (11.49pm) One in four Australian children is overweight or obese. Type 2 diabetes has risen dramatically over the last five years. One in eight children has asthma and one in 12 has a chronic allergy. But perhaps some of the most concerning statistics [...]
Players must behave
Whether they like it or not – sports men and women are role models and as such players have a responsibility to behave themselves on and off the field. Increasingly it seems that some professional sports people think they are a law unto themselves when they are out late at night. In the regards to [...]
Outcomes of the ‘Shine a Spotlight on Petrol Prices’ Campaign
This week Senator Kate Lundy has been asking ACT residents to call in with their local petrol prices to shine a spotlight on petrol prices in the lead up to the long weekend. Wednesday 6 June was the cheapest day to purchase petrol this week in the ACT costing on average 137.5 cents per litre, [...]
NCA Powers Well Beyond Reasonable
Once again the NCA is using its power under the national Capital Plan to thwart the efforts of the elected ACT Labor Government to improve the lives of Canberrans, in this case the residents of the Long Stay Caravan Park in Narrabundah. Reports this morning of the NCA delaying the land swap deal negotiated between [...]
Shine a Spotlight on ACT Petrol Prices
Today Senator Lundy called on ACT residents to help monitor local petrol prices in the lead up to the Queens Birthday long weekend. “The Canberra community is fed up with huge fluctuations in the price of petrol, there has definitely been a growing level of frustration as petrol prices continue to go through the roof”, [...]
Labor forces Government to listen to older Canberrans
Today Senator Kate Lundy, Federal Member for Canberra Annette Ellis MP and Federal Member for Fraser Bob McMullan MP joined together to urge all senior Australians and groups to make a submission by 20 July 2007 to the Senate Inquiry that Labor has established into the cost of living pressures facing older Australians. “Older Australians [...]
