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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Radio Kate: Defence Department Cleaners
Transcript Two major national unions have joined forces to fight the unfair imposition on their members of lower wages through AWAs by new Defence contractor, Serco Sodexho. The LHMU, representing the cleaners and the NUW representing stores and distribution workers have both identified deficiencies relating to sick leave and public holidays in the AWAs. [...]
Radio Kate: IR Laws Small Business Burden
Transcript The onerous record keeping requirements in the Howard Government’s extreme industrial relations laws are a regulatory burden that small businesses don’t want and don’t need. Instead of making Australian workplaces simpler, John Howard’s ideological obsession has burdened business with more workplace red tape and that acts as a dead weight on productivity. For many [...]
Radio Kate: Defence Department Cleaners
Transcript Seventy-five Canberra cleaners are fighting for the right to remain on collective agreements in the face of a push to AWA’s (Australian Workplace Agreements) by new Defence Department cleaning contractors. The cleaners and their union, the LHMU, met with Kim Beazley and local Labor representatives including myself, Bob McMullan and Annette Ellis to discuss [...]
Radio Kate: Women’s Sport and Recreation Senate Inquiry
Transcript The bipartisan Report of the Senate Inquiry into Women’s Sport and Recreation in Australia has been tabled in the Senate. It expresses many findings and contains 18 recommendations. If fully implemented, the Committee is confident a discernible positive difference will be made to the experience of girls and women in sport. We all agree [...]
Radio Kate: Telstra Fire Sale
Transcript The Howard Government has once again put ideology ahead of affordable broadband by announcing the Telstra fire sale. This sale, with half the shares kept in the so-called future fund, means the Howard Government will continue to protect Telstra’s monopoly, leaving consumers frustrated with the lack of affordable broadband in many areas. Residents in [...]
Radio Kate: ABC Culture Wars
Transcript The Howard Government is continuing its culture and history wars through even more blatant interference in the ABC. A yet to be completed ABC drama series chronicling the 1998 waterfront dispute has been attacked by a Liberal Senator as being anti-Howard government despite assurances by the distinguished writer Sue Smith that she has gone [...]
