This year’s National Multicultural Festival was a huge success with a record number of Canberrans flocking to the event to taste and experience wonderfully diverse cuisines and cultures from all corners of the globe. With over 250 stalls and six entertainment stages, the festival was a one-stop multicultural festival extravaganza with visitors treated to a [...]
by Kate Lundy
ComSuper and Defence Pension Update February 2011
This post is to update you on where we are at with the Comsuper and Defence Pension issue. Dr Mike Kelly MP, Ms Gai Brodtmann MP, Dr Andrew Leigh MP and myself sent this letter yesterday to the Minister for Finance and Deregulation, Senator the Hon. Penny Wong. As you can see, we are pressing for [...]
Gungahlin Mobile Office
I’m holding a Mobile Office at Gungahlin Marketplace tommorow (Saturday 5th February) 10:30am-12pm to hear what issues are important to you. If this Mobile Office time and location is not convenient, you can contact me by: Phone: 6230 0411 Fax: 6230 0413 Mail: 11 London Circuit, Canberra Email: senator.lundy@aph.gov.au
Welcome news for Open Source
Last week the Federal Labor Government’s Special Minister of State, Gary Gray announced the revised Federal Government policy on open source procurement. I have taken a long standing interest in open source and ICT procurement generally and want to acknowledge the merit of the revised policy, which aims to strengthen the consideration of open source software by agencies [...]
ComSuper and Defence Pension Update
The introduction of Senator Ronaldson’s Private Member’s Bill to change the indexation method applying to the DFRDB scheme is, understandably, receiving mixed support. Of course we value the contributions of our veterans and acknowledge our debt to them. I believe that any indexation improvements should apply to all of the relevant Defence and ComSuper schemes. [...]
R18+ adjournment speech – your comments
Tonight I presented an adjournment speech to the Australian Senate to table a petition and add my support for the introduction of an R18+ games classification in Australia. The speech is linked below, along with a few other useful references. I’d like to hear what you think. Kate Adjournment speech – http://www.katelundy.com.au/2010/11/23/adjournment-speech-supporting-an-r18-games-classification-in-australia/ Some additional useful [...]
Settlement Council of Australia Annual General Meeting
12 November 2010, Melbourne Let me begin by acknowledging and paying my respects to the traditional owners of this land on which we meet today, the Wathaurung, Jajowrong, Taungurong, Woiworung and Bunurong people who make up the Kulin Nation, now known by its European name of Melbourne. I thank them for their continuing contributions to [...]
Young people inspire through dance
T.A.O. stands for Together as One. I had the privilege to attend a performance of the TAO Boiz Crew yesterday at the Metropolitan Migrant Resource Centre (MMRC) Youth Centre in Perth as part of an informal meeting with members of our very diverse African communities including people originally from Sudan, Liberia, Burundi, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, [...]
The Office of the Information Commissioner
Today marks an exciting step for open data, open government and the Gov 2.0 agenda in Australia. Today the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) is being launched in Canberra at Parliament House by Brendan O’Connor, the Minister for Home Affairs. Also speaking at the launch is the new Information Commissioner Professor John MacMillan [...]
Friends of the Australian National Botanic Gardens turn 20!
This week we celebrate the 20th Birthday of the friends of the Australian National Botanic Gardens as well as the 40 year anniversary of the formal establishment of the Australian National Botanic Gardens. The vibrant presence and words of former Australian National Botanic Gardens (ANBG) staff member and Friends Life member Anne Joyce captured the [...]
