ACT Senator Kate Lundy, Member for Canberra Gai Brodtmann and Member for Fraser Andrew Leigh are calling on Tony Abbott and Joe Hockey to be upfront about any planned cuts on Canberra in the Opposition’s formal budget reply on Thursday. With only one day until the budget reply speech to Parliament, they are calling on the [...]
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Woden Community Service: supporting our local community
It was a pleasure to visit the Woden Community Service (WCS) and meet some of our newest Canberrans. The Settlement Grants Program (SGP) which has provided a further $270,000 to the WCS to continue to provide this program, is targeted to meet the settlement needs of recently arrived humanitarian migrants and family stream migrants, as well [...]
Nicky Winmar’s proud legacy against racism in sport
20 years have now passed since Nicky Winmar made one of the most powerful gestures against racism in sport in Australia.
Women in Construction – still moving forward
I was pleased to welcome a group of dedicated individuals and organisations involved with the National Association for Women in Construction (NAWIC – of which I am Patron) to my Canberra office this week to provide me with an update on how their work has been progressing, and to present me with a wonderful [...]
A Minister’s Indiana Jones Moment
A couple of Fridays ago, I felt so lucky to be part of a very special Canberra Centenary year event: the re-uniting, for the first time in just over 100 years, of the three ‘golden trowels’ used at the city’s Foundation Stones/Naming ceremonies on 12 March 1913. The trowels— genuine working trowels on the day [...]
The Big Steps were worth it
Me and some of the children at Spence Children’s Cottage This week, I took a morning to visit three Canberra childcare centres – Nicholls Early Childhood Centre, Spence Children’s Cottage and Baringa Childcare Centre where I was welcomed with smiles and song (in some cases), and lots of chatter and fun. I wanted to [...]
International Women’s Day 2013
I had the pleasure of attending the Migrant and Refugee Settlement Services morning tea and exhibition and the United Nations Women Lunch today in Canberra to celebrate International Women’s Day. Today is a day to celebrate the contributions and achievements of women, in particular migrant women have not only made in Australia but around the [...]
No place for division in Australia
Throughout the weekend I have been stewing over the comments of the Liberal Opposition spokesperson for Immigration. I have been weighing up whether or not his bile warrants a response. But now, let me be absolutely clear, the sort of racial profiling that Scott Morrison proposes has no place in our modern and dynamic nation. [...]
History shows Liberal axe always falls on Canberra
From a policy and outcomes perspective, it really doesn’t matter who emerges victorious in the shambolic Liberal senate pre-selection race between incumbent Humphries and aspirant Seselja. The Liberals have a proven track record of inability when it comes to securing jobs in Canberra. Rather than all the attention being on the Liberal party factional pre-selection [...]
