The Napthine Liberal Government has today been forced to make changes to its construction industry code following last week’s decision by the Federal Court that found the Government’s code had discriminated against workers. The Federal Court ruled that the government had discriminated against workers employed by Lend Lease by threatening to not use the builder [...]
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Victorians with a disability living in state-run residential units are facing massive fee increases as a result of the Napthine Government State Budget, Member for Clayton Hong Lim said today. The 2013 State Budget revealed that a fee increase paid by those already living in Department of Humans Services (DHS) managed disability accommodation services will [...]
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campaign by local communities and the State Opposition to save the highly regarded School Focused Youth Service (SFYS) from closure appears to have been successful with Premier Napthine now saying the program will continue, Parliamentary Secretary for Education, Colin Brooks said today. Mr Brooks said that SFYS providers had previously been informed by the Napthine [...]
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The Napthine Government has released its latest hospital data which shows a further blowout in the number of Victorians waiting for elective surgery, Shadow Health Minister Gavin Jennings said today. Mr Jennings said the Victorian Health Services Performance Data for the March 2013 quarter showed nearly 3000 more people were added to the list in [...]
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The Napthine Liberal Government’s failure to produce a jobs plan after nearly three years in office has seen unemployment jump yet again with Victoria recording a youth unemployment rate of 21% – the highest in Australia, Shadow Employment Minister Tim Pallas said today. Mr Pallas said today’s Australian Bureau of Statistics April figures showed 5700 [...]
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“This Budget is cold comfort to Victorians on wThe 2013 Victorian Budget was a cynical exercise in cruelty and illusion, Leader of the Opposition Daniel Andrews said today. Mr Andrews said that a total of over $1 billion in cuts have been made to vital services that Victorians need and today’s Budget from Denis Napthine [...]
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Figures produced by the State Opposition today reveal the Napthine Government has directed the bulk of school maintenance funding to schools in Liberal and National party electorates, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Education, Colin Brooks, said today. Mr Brooks said that the Napthine Government announcement of $51.5 million on 22 April 2013 for school maintenance revealed [...]
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Clayton RSL Ceremony is at the front of Clayton Hall, 264 Clayton Road Clayton, commencing at 6.00am TRIBUTE:- At the going down of the sun… I crouched in a shallow trench on that hell of exposed beaches… steeply rising foothills bare of cover… a landscape pockmarked with war’s inevitable litter… piles of stores… equipment… ammunition… [...]
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Victorians in life-threatening emergencies are waiting longer for ambulances placing lives at risk across every suburb in Melbourne under the Napthine Government, Opposition Leader Daniel Andrews said today. Mr Andrews said the documents, obtained under freedom of information, demonstrate why one in four ambulances failed to meet the government’s own state-wide target of responding to [...]
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Primary and secondary schools across Victoria are still waiting for key capital funding promised to them by the Napthine Government ahead of this year’s State Budget, Leader of the Opposition, Daniel Andrews said today. Mr Andrews and Shadow Minister for Education, James Merlino said that the opposition had identified over twenty schools across the state, [...]
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The Napthine Government has had a $53 million fire sale of VicRoads land to fill the Government’s budget black holes, Shadow Minister for Roads and Road Safety Luke Donnellan said. Mr Donnellan said the latest Napthine Government attack on VicRoads resources would see road users suffer yet again. Freedom of Information documents obtained by the [...]
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Thousands of workers in the services sector – including banking, IT and call centres – would continue to be employed locally under a new policy announced on Saturday by Opposition Leader, Daniel Andrews. Under the policy released on Saturday at the Victorian Labor Party State Conference, companies that employ services staff in Victoria would get [...]
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NAPTHINE GOVERNMENT BROKEN PROMISE SENDING BED NUMBERS BACKWARDS
Posted on 22. Apr, 2013 by admin.
Figures released by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) today show the Coalition has broken a key election promise of delivering 100 extra hospital beds in its first full year in office, Shadow Minister for Health Gavin Jennings said. Mr Jennings said that the 2011/12 figures, which Health Minister David Davis has stated [...]
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Premier Denis Napthine must explain to the residents of the Lyndhurst electorate why he has failed to tackle crime and what his Government will do to fix the rising crime rate in the local area, Shadow Minister for Police, Jacinta Allan said today. Ms Allan today visited Springvale with Labor’s candidate for Lyndhurst Martin Pakula [...]
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Premier Denis Napthine has continued Ted Baillieu’s do-nothing approach on jobs, as Victoria lost 300 jobs a day in the last month, ensuring the state remains at the bottom of Australia’s jobs pack, Opposition Leader Daniel Andrews said today. Mr Andrews said that the latest Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) unemployment data, released today, indicated [...]
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The Napthine Government today proved it was a policy free zone by serving up a half-baked imitation of Labor’s commitment to mandate the purchasing of locally made cars by all government agencies, Opposition Leader Daniel Andrews said today. Mr Andrew’s said today’s glib announcement with no detail by Mr Napthine is further evidence that the [...]
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The Shadow Minister for Higher Education, Steve Herbert, today welcomed the opening of Labor’s $288 million AgriBio centre at Latrobe University by Denis Napthine. “This visionary project will attract leading researchers from across the world as part of a 400-strong scientific community, which is why Labor committed the $288 million funding and did the hard [...]
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Chisholm Institute of TAFE has struggled with the massive changes forced upon it by the Baillieu and Napthine Governments, Opposition Leader Daniel Andrews said today. Mr Andrews visited Chisholm’s Berwick campus with Member for Narre Warren North Luke Donnellan to discuss what impact the Coalition Government’s changes to TAFE were having in the local area. [...]
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The Napthine Government’s continuing failure to invest in Victoria has contributed to more than two years of falling job advertisements, with Victoria recording the worst figures for any state or territory in Australia, Shadow Treasurer Tim Pallas said today. Today’s ANZ jobs advertisement research found the number of Victorian job advertisements continued to fall, recording [...]
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A lucrative contract to provide first aid and emergency medical care to the state’s fire-fighters was won by a company which reportedly doesn’t have the facilities to fulfil the important role, Labor’s Parliamentary Secretary for Health Wade Noonan said today. Mr Noonan said the safety of DSE and CFA fire-fighters was paramount and Premier Denis [...]
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The Napthine Government have continued the turmoil in Victoria’s vocational education and training system, having sacked or planning to sack up to 9 of the 14 TAFE board chairs, including Jonathon Forster, Chair of Holmesglen TAFE board, Shadow Skills and Apprenticeships Steve Herbert said today. Mr Herbert said the sacking of the TAFE board chairs [...]
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Premier Denis Napthine has failed to guarantee Victoria’s most popular holiday destinations will have paramedics on duty over the busy Easter period, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Health, Wade Noonan said today. Mr Noonan said that shortfalls in ambulance staffing across the recent Labour Day long weekend had prompted the State Opposition to raise the matter [...]
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Victorian commuters will not see an improvement in rail services under the Napthine Government for nearly a decade despite their election promises, Shadow Minister for Public Transport Fiona Richardson said today. Ms Richardson said the Liberal Government’s announcement today of an un-costed 30 year plan was an insult to commuters. “This is just the latest [...]
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The Napthine Government mismanagement of the Victorian economy has been laid bare for all to see in a scathing report by Westpac Bank, Shadow Treasurer Tim Pallas said today. Mr Pallas said the Westpac report “Coast to Coast: March 2013” confirmed what the State Opposition has been saying repeatedly, that the State Government’s negativity and [...]
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It’s been revealed that Ambulance Victoria are proposing to cut their driver education training program for new graduate paramedics as part of a drastic cost cutting program, Opposition Parliamentary Secretary for Health, Wade Noonan, said today. Mr Noonan said a leaked internal document proposed to cut the 5-day driver induction program from 2014, forcing new [...]
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At the Building Business Bridges to Asia Annual Dinner on 20 March 2013, in the Victorian Parliament House, accompanied by 7 of his senior economic related portfolio Shadow Ministers, the Honourable Daniel Andrews, Leader of the Labor Party, in front of 70 Asian business community leaders, announced the promotion of Clayton MP Hong Lim to [...]
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Deputy Premier Peter Ryan’s new portfolio of ‘State Development’ is nothing short of a farce, with Mr Ryan not responsible for one piece of legislation, for one policy area, for one program or for any allocation of funding, Shadow Minister for Regional and Rural Victoria, Jacinta Allan said today. Ms Allan said that the Parliamentary [...]
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The Napthine Government has hit Victorian families with a record tax grab in the last six months while families faced increased living costs, Shadow Treasurer Tim Pallas said today. Mr Pallas said the Napthine Government’s 2012–13 Mid Year Financial Report was a slap in the face to Victorians and showed the government was more interested [...]
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Premier Napthine has done an about-face and will introduce “super monster trucks” on suburban and regional roads putting local residents and road users safety at risk, Shadow Minister for Roads and Road Safety Luke Donnellan said today. Mr Donnellan said Mr Napthine, who termed the phrase “super monster trucks” in Parliament in 2010, had failed [...]
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Newly appointed Premier Denis Napthine has missed a major opportunity to right the wrongs of the Victorian Coalition Government with today’s cabinet reshuffle. Mr Andrews said there were some clear losers from the decision, yet failing ministers in key service delivery areas such as health and education have been rewarded. “It’s clear that the motive [...]
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MONASH MEDICAL CENTRE MOORABBIN STRUGGLING WITH HEALTH CUTS AS WAITING LIST BLOWS OUT
Posted on 12. Mar, 2013 by admin.
New Premier Denis Napthine needs to address the chronic lack of funding at Monash Medical Centre Moorabbin campus, which is affecting patient care, Opposition Leader Daniel Andrews said today. Mr Andrews visited the Monash Medical Centre on a tour of several hospitals in Melbourne’s south-eastern suburbs. “The Coalition Government’s $616 million cuts to health are [...]
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Public Transport fares have increased by more than 18 per cent under the Napthine Liberal National Government, yet V/Line service quality and punctuality continue to worsen, Shadow Minister for Public Transport Fiona Richardson said today. Ms Richardson said three consecutive fare increases approved by the Napthine Liberal National Government had delivered nothing but hip pocket [...]
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New Premier Denis Napthine today told parliament he would not reverse the damaging cuts made to Victoria’s TAFE system, Opposition Leader Daniel Andrews said today. Mr Andrews said despite installing a new leader in Denis Napthine, it was clear in question time that the Liberal National Coalition was still committed to the $300 million cuts [...]
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The Baillieu Government’s internal crises’ are now impacting the Victorian economy with new figures today confirming the state is now in recession, Shadow Treasurer Tim Pallas said today. Mr Pallas said today’s Australian Bureau of Statistic State Final Demand figures show that Victoria is now in recession and is the third worst performing economy in [...]
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The Baillieu Government’s failure to invest in Victoria has contributed to more than two years of falling job advertisements, Shadow Treasurer Tim Pallas said today. The ANZ jobs advertisement research found the number of Victorian job advertisements continued to fall, recording a drop of 9.2 per cent for February or 45.5 per cent for the [...]
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The Baillieu Government’s appalling offer on ambulance paramedics’ pay and conditions will result in hundreds of staff moving interstate, Labor Parliamentary Secretary for Health, Wade Noonan, said today. Mr Noonan said the Baillieu Government’s offer to Victoria’s hardworking paramedics of the equivalent of an extra dollar a week was insulting and made many paramedics consider [...]
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The Baillieu Government’s road safety strategy is full of potholes just like many roads in Victoria, Shadow Minister for Roads and Road Safety, Luke Donnellan said today. Mr Donnellan said some of the initiatives announced by the Baillieu Government were carbon copies of the Victorian Labor Party’s road safety strategy launched 18 months ago. “Peter [...]
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BAILLIEU’S SHAME AS WAITING LIST AT OUR MONASH MEDICAL CENTRE’S HITS 3386
Posted on 01. Mar, 2013 by admin.
After months of delay, the Baillieu Government has finally released data detailing the health of the state’s hospital system, with number of people waiting for elective surgery blowing out to 47,760 Member for Clayton Hong Lim said. Mr Lim said the Baillieu Government today released the Victorian Health Services Performance Data for two quarters, both [...]
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Crime in the Clayton electorate has again jumped showing the Baillieu Government’s so-called tough on crime stance is failing, with new police crime statistics showing significant rises across nearly all categories, Member for Clayton Hong Lim said today. Mr Lim said Victoria Police Local Government Area statistics showed an alarming jump in Assaults and Burglary [...]
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DISABLED VICTORIANS SLUGGED WITH MASSIVE FEE INCREASE
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MP HONG LIM IS PROMOTED TO SHADOW PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY
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BAILLIEU’S SHAME AS WAITING LIST AT OUR MONASH MEDICAL CENTRE’S HITS 3386
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CRIME RATES JUMP AGAIN UNDER BAILLIEU GOVERNMENT
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BAILLIEU CUTS LOCAL YOUTH SUICIDE PREVENTION SERVICE
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PARENTS TELL BAILLIEU: NO MORE CUTS TO EDUCATION
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Best wishes for 2013
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Remembrance Day 11 November
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HOLMESGLEN TAFE PLANS TO DEAL WITH CUTS FINALLY REVEALED
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BAILLIEU MINISTER ‘NO IDEA’ ABOUT HER OWN CUTS TO CHILDHOOD SERVICES
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RYAN’S STATE DEVELOPMENT IS A PORTFOLIO FOR NOTHING
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LIBERAL’S SET TO REPEAT HISTORY OF BAD DECISIONS ON REGIONAL PUBLIC TRANSPORT
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CFA TRUCKS DE-REGISTERED DUE TO BAILLIEU GOVERNMENT DITHERING
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THE COTTAGE CLOSES AS BAILLIEU RENEGS ON FUNDING PROMISE
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BAILLIEU ABANDONS ICONIC ROAD – PUTS FAMILIES AT RISK
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REGIONAL SPECIAL SCHOOLS SUFFER UNDER BAILLIEU CUTS
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TAFE CAMPUSES BEGIN TO CLOSE IN REGIONAL VICTORIA
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MORE REGIONAL JOBS AT RISK AS MENTAL HEALTH FUNDS CUT
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BAILLIEU-RYAN IDLE AS 16,400 REGIONAL JOBS ARE LOST
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REGIONAL TAFE CAMPUSES FACING CLOSURE
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NAPTHINE FORCED TO BACKDOWN ON UNFAIR CONSTRUCTION CODE
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NAPTHINE’S BACKFLIP ON YOUTH SUICIDE PREVENTION SERVICE
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NAPTHINE’S HEALTH SYSTEM: LONGEST WAITING LIST EVER
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NAPTHINE ADMITS HE IS FAILING TO CREATE JOBS
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YOU CAN’T TRUST NAPTHINE: MORE CUTS, MORE PAIN FOR VICTORIANS
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NAPTHINE’S VICTORIAN SCHOOLS FUNDING RORTS EXPOSED
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ANZAC DAY – LEST WE FORGET – SHOW YOUR PRIDE – BUY A BADGE
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AMBULANCE RESPONSE TIMES WORSE STILL UNDER NAPTHINE
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DENIS NAPTHINE STILL MISSING ON SCHOOL CAPITAL FUNDING
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NAPTHINE GOVERNMENT RIPS MORE MONEY OUT OF VICROADS
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BAILLIEU TRAILING THE NATION ON RENEWABLE ENERGY PLAN
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BAILLIEU CUTS STATE SOLAR SUPPORT FOR FAMILIES
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LADY APRIL HAMER AND BRACKS UNITE TO SAVE GREEN WEDGE
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BAILLIEU’S ENVIRONMENT POLICY FREE ZONE
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BAILLIEU THREATENS TO DIG UP NATIONAL PARKS
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VICTORIA LOSES ENERGY INVESTMENT AND JOBS UNDER BAILLIEU
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BAILLIEU IN HOT WATER ON ENERGY EFFICIENCY PROMISE
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BAILLIEU ABANDONS ENVIRONMENT ONE YEAR ON
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BAILLIEU AXES STANDARD SOLAR SCHEME BY STEALTH
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BAILLIEU’S SOLAR SCHEME SPARKS SAFETY FEARS