Labor congratulates the Australian women’s water polo team who overcame the reigning Olympic champions Italy 10-7 to win the FINA Women’s Water Polo World Cup in Tianjin, China overnight.
The determined Aussie women led the Italians by 5-0 early on in the game and never looked back.
The team were ranked 6th in the world last year. [...]
Monthly Archives: August 2007
Win to the Aussie women in the pool
Australian Citizenship Ammendment Bill 2007 – Second Reading Speech
Australian Citizenship Amendment Bill 2007 – Second Reading Speech
Open Australia link here.
Senator LUNDY (Australian Capital Territory) (1.16 p.m.)
The Australian Citizenship Amendment (Citizenship Testing) Bill 2007 amends the Australian Citizenship Act 2007 to provide for the testing of prospective applicants for Australian citizenship by conferral. The Australian Citizenship Act 2007 requires that applicants for citizenship (1) [...]
Humphries’ scare campaign on the Public Service another desperate exercise
Senator Lundy said today that Senator Gary Humphries’ scare campaign on the Public Service is desperate, irresponsible and misleading.
The facts are that in Lindsay Tanner’s address to the National Press Club on Wednesday 8 August 2007, he said:
the public sector and government spending has been growing faster than the economy;
the growth is in inappropriate areas [...]
Canberrans suffering after ninth interest rate rise
Today’s interest rate rise, the ninth since 2002, will put additional pressure on already stressed Canberra families, say Federal ACT representatives, Senator Kate Lundy, Annette Ellis MP and Bob McMullan MP.
“These families have been repeatedly told by John Howard that they have never been better off, when owning a home is out of the reach [...]
Telstra Boss has form on Landline Connection Delays
Telstra CEO Sol Trujillo has form on leaving households for months without phone lines, something the Howard Government has known since he was appointed were aware of before Telstra was fully privatized and put beyond the scrutiny of Parliament.
In fact, his former company in the US was sued for hundreds of millions of dollars for [...]
