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31 March 2012
Victoria Minister for Mental Health Mary Wooldridge New Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender And Intersex (GLBTI) Health Ministerial Advisory Committee For Victoria Victor P Taffa The Victorian Coalition Government is establishing a Ministerial Advisory Committee to provide advice on the delivery of election commitments related to the health of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and intersex (GLBTI) Victorians and appropriate [...]
Posted in Welfare Services
31 March 2012
Victoria Minister for Innovation, Services and Small Business Louise Asher Daylight Saving Ends This Sunday Victor P Taffa Victorians should turn their clocks back one hour as daylight saving ends this weekend, Minister for Innovation, Services and Small Business Louise Asher said today. Daylight saving ends this Sunday 1 April 2012 at 3am. “With the end of [...]
Posted in News
31 March 2012
Western Australia Minister for Mines and Petroleum Norman Moore Report Release Locked By Legal Undertaking Victor P Taffa Supreme Court ruling precludes Varanus report’s release Apache Northwest given opportunity to be heard Mines and Petroleum Minister Norman Moore today rejected calls from Opposition spokesperson Jon Ford for him to ‘immediately’ release the final investigation report into the Varanus [...]
Posted in Resources
31 March 2012
Western Australia Minister for Science and Innovation John Day Astrofest To Foster Wonder At WA’s Night Sky Victor P Taffa Festival brings science of astronomy to the people Includes shows, telescopes, spacedomes and astrophotography This engagement promotes science as a career option Science and Innovation Minister John Day today announced the commencement of Perth Astrofest, which takes place tomorrow [...]
Posted in Technology
30 March 2012
Tasmania Shadow Treasurer Peter Gutwein Giddings Tries To Shift The Blame On Budget Pain Victor P Taffa Tasmanians should not be fooled by the Premier’s transparent attempt today to try and shift the blame for her upcoming self-described “tough budget,” to Wayne Swan, Shadow Treasurer Peter Gutwein said. “It is Labor and the Greens’ financial incompetence and consistent overspending [...]
Posted in Business
30 March 2012
Tasmania Shadow Minister for Education and Skills Michael Ferguson McKim Refuses To End Uncertainty On School Closures Victor P Taffa Nick McKim’s policy to close schools to try and fix his budget mess has caused considerable trauma to school communities, according to Shadow Minister for Education and Skills Michael Ferguson. “When given the opportunity to clear up how he [...]
Posted in Education
30 March 2012
Victoria Minister for Community Services Mary Wooldridge Coalition Responds To Community Visitors Annual Report 2010-11 Victor P Taffa The important role of Community Visitors in the Victorian community was acknowledged today with the first-ever tabling in Parliament of a government response to a Community Visitor’s annual report. Community Visitors are volunteers empowered by law to visit Victorian accommodation facilities [...]
Posted in Welfare Services
30 March 2012
Victoria Minister for Technology Gordon Rich-Phillips Broadband Plan Leaves Victoria Lagging Behind Victor P Taffa The Gillard Government has dudded Victoria in its construction plans for the next three-year rollout of the National Broadband Network. Technology Minister Gordon Rich-Phillips said Victoria had received less than 20 % of the program funding despite being home to a quarter of [...]
Posted in Technology
29 March 2012
Victoria Minister for Energy and Resources Michael O’Brien Victorian Government Funds Pioneering Hydro-Electric Project Victor P Taffa The Victorian Coalition Government announced funding today for a cutting-edge hydro-electricity project that uses unique Victorian-developed technology to harness kinetic energy in open water flow to generate power. Minister for Energy and Resources Michael O’Brien said Cetus Energy had been granted [...]
Posted in Technology
29 March 2012
Victoria Minister for Technology Gordon Rich-Phillips Victoria Attracts Another 20 Highly Skilled IT Jobs Victor P Taffa Harbour MSP, an Australasian leader in data centres, is set to commence operations from its Melbourne data centre, creating 20 new highly skilled technology jobs in Victoria over the next four years. Making the announcement today, Technology Minister Gordon Rich-Phillips said, [...]
Posted in Technology
29 March 2012
South Australia Shadow Minister for Health Martin Hamilton-Smith Hill Delivers Ruin To The Health Budget Victor P Taffa Health Minister Hill has been forced to reveal to Parliament that a forthcoming Auditor-General’s report is to savage his management of the $5 Billion Health budget and that his agencies have not complied with the Public Finance and Audit [...]
Posted in Health
29 March 2012
South Australia Opposition Leader Isobel Redmond Redmond Calls On Weatherill To Rule Out Dodgy How-To-Vote Cards At SA Election Victor P Taffa Saturday’s Queensland Election highlights the need for tougher electoral laws to deal with Labor’s latest dodgy election tactics. Liberal Leader Isobel Redmond today called on Premier Weatherill to rule out using dodgy how-to-vote cards at the [...]
Posted in Politics
28 March 2012
Tasmania Opposition Leader Will Hodgman Labor Members To Be Held To Account Over IGA Victor P Taffa Tomorrow each and every Labor Member of Parliament will be forced to put on the record whether or not they support the job-destroying forest deal, according to Opposition Leader Will Hodgman. “Each and every Labor member went to the 2010 election campaign [...]
Posted in Resources
28 March 2012
Tasmania Shadow Minister for Environment and Parks Matthew Groom Wightman Confused On High Conservation Value Forest Question Victor P Taffa The Minister for the Environment and Parks, Brian Wightman, failed once again to coherently outline his understanding of “high conservation value” in Parliament today – a term that is being used by the Greens and Environmental Non-Government Organisations [...]
Posted in Environment
28 March 2012
Victoria Minister for Innovation Services and Small Business Louise Asher Coalition Fulfils Commitment To Change Regional Melbourne Cup Day Arrangements Victor P Taffa Minister for Innovation, Services and Small Business Louise Asher has today written to all regional and rural councils to remind them of their opportunity to make alternative local public holiday arrangements for a public [...]
Posted in Sport
28 March 2012
Victoria Premier Ted Baillieu Victoria Minister for the Arts Ted Baillieu NGV Ranks With World’s Most Popular Galleries Victor P Taffa The 150th birthday celebrations may be over, but the gifts keep coming for the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV), with the announcement that the NGV was Australia’s most visited gallery and the 25th most visited art gallery in [...]
Posted in Literary & Arts
27 March 2012
Tasmania Shadow Minister for Forestry Peter Gutwein West Report Confirms Forest Deal Will Cost Thousands Of Jobs Victor P Taffa “The indicative analysis indicates that there would be substantial job losses associated with the transitioning of the native forest industry from its current wood supply levels to levels to achieve the land use allocations and wood flows specified [...]
Posted in Resources
27 March 2012
Tasmania Shadow Minister for Forestry Peter Gutwein West Report A Green Stitch-Up Victor P Taffa The West report is nothing more than a Green stitch up which ‘green-washes’ the devastating impact of the forest deal on jobs and on our regional communities, Shadow Minister for Forestry Peter Gutwein said. “When Bob Brown welcomes it, you know that you’ve been [...]
Posted in Resources
27 March 2012
Victoria Minister for Energy and Resources Michael O’Brien Victorian Coalition Government Funds Cutting Edge Solar Project Victor P Taffa The Victorian Coalition Government announced today it will provide $1 Million in funding for the cutting edge Victorian development of an ultra efficient solar power system. Minister for Energy and Resources Michael O’Brien said the RayGen solar power project [...]
Posted in Technology
27 March 2012
Victoria Minister for Major Projects Denis Napthine Key Objectives For Flinders Street Station Revealed Victor P Taffa Minister for Major Projects Denis Napthine today revealed the Victorian Coalition Government’s vision for a potential revamp of Flinders Street Station precinct with the release of the design competition’s Statement of Key Objectives document. Dr. Napthine said the document would give [...]
Posted in Transport
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