Federal Labor representatives for the ACT, Senator Kate Lundy, Gai Brodtmann MP and Andrew Leigh MP, today welcomed the historic passage of the Clean Energy Future (CEF) legislative package to tackle climate change and move Australia to a clean energy economy. The CEF legislation will reduce greenhouse gas emissions and cut 160 million tonnes of pollution [...]
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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
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 [...]
Blueprint for a better world: the millennium development goals and you
Caritas Exhibition opening – Blueprint for a better world: the millennium development goals and you Old Parliament House, Canberra 22nd July 2010 I acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which we are gathered. Senator Gary Humphries Archbishop Mark Benedict Coleridge, Archbishop of Canberra and Goulburn Helen Forde, Community Engagement Manager, Caritas Australia Jenny [...]
100 years of the Garden City
Canberra celebrated it’s 97th birthday on 12 March 2010, meaning the Centenary while still 3 years away. This has not stopped the ACT Government and Chief Minister Jon Stanhope making sure we clearly mark each milestone towards this event. For example, on Friday 12 March, the Centenary of Canberra’s Creative Director, Robyn Archer, introduced the [...]
Adjournment Speech about Canberra history & ANBG
Below is the adjournment speech on Canberra and the ANBG given by Senator Lundy on the 15th June 2010. When the members of the first national parliament met in the elegantly refurbished Victorian parliament building over a century ago, in May 1901, they had the building of a new nation firmly in mind. The substance [...]
Delivery of $50 Green Rewards in 2010-11
Delivery arrangements for the $50 Green Rewards to households have today been announced by the Minister for Climate Change, Energy Efficiency and Water, Senator Penny Wong. The Government will deliver the $50 Green Rewards to households that received a Green Loans home sustainability assessment on or before 11 May 2010. As announced in the Budget, [...]
Launch of Shout Out For Climate Change Competition
Young Australians – from primary school kids to university students – have been invited to share their views on climate change, in a new schools competition announced today. Inspired by the success of the 2009 Think Climate, Think Change competition, which attracted more than 7500 entries from schools across the country, this year’s competition has [...]
More than $2.57 million to help ACT office buildings go green
Five commercial office buildings around the ACT will have their greenhouse gas emissions cut as a result of the latest grants under the Rudd Government’s Green Building Fund. The Green Building Fund reduces energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions by helping building owners to retro-fit commercial office buildings. Announcing the grants for Round 5, Innovation [...]
2010-11 Budget – Responsible management and a faster return to surplus
The Rudd Government will get the budget back in the black three years ahead of schedule and ahead of every major advanced economy. Senator for the ACT, Kate Lundy said she was proud to be part of a government that had worked so hard to keep the economy in a position of strength. “From a [...]
