LOCAL RELEASES

MORRISON ‘REARRANGES TRUTH TO A LIE’ ON SUPPORT FOR CLIVE PALMER’S WA BORDER CHALLENGE

14 February 2022

Scott Morrison’s claim in Question Time that his support for Clive Palmer’s challenge to Western Australia’s borders was ‘normal convention’ is yet another example of Barnaby Joyce’s observation ‘how earnestly he rearranges the truth to a lie’. 
  
The facts are that during the entire time Christian Porter was Attorney-General he intervened in just 31 constitutional proceedings out of a total of 653. 

MR MORRISON KEEPS RIPPING OFF FAMILIES WITH CHILD CARE FEES

28 January 2022

The price of family child care has been jacked up by more than double the CPI inflation rate in 2021, causing stress and financial strain for Rockingham and Kwinana families.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics released the latest data on price increases to December 2021, showing child care prices increase in Perth by 8.6 per cent, while CPI inflation was only 3.5 per cent.

GP SHORTAGES IN THE SPOTLIGHT AS SENATE INQUIRY HEARINGS COMMENCE

03 November 2021

The shortage of GPs in Brand will be under the spotlight this week as the first public hearing of a Senate inquiry examining the issue gets underway in Canberra.

Labor called for the inquiry in a bid to investigate the critical lack of doctors across outer metropolitan, rural and regional Australia.

TAXPAYERS FORK OUT $1 MILLION FOR MORRISON’S WA BORDER HUMILIATION

13 August 2021

Scott Morrison and Christian Porter’s disastrous intervention to support Clive Palmer’s attack on Western Australia and Queensland’s COVID-19 border restrictions cost taxpayers over $1 million.

BRAND COMMUNITY GRANTS PROGRAMME

21 January 2021

Community groups in Brand can now submit expressions submissions of interest for round six of the Stronger Communities Grants Programme.

THE US ELECTION: FREE LECTURE IN ROCKINGHAM

02 December 2020

The 2020 US presidential election has been one of the talked-about global news stories of the year.

STATEMENT ON CLOSURE OF BP’S KWINANA REFINERY

30 October 2020

The closure of BP oil refinery in Kwinana is a devastating blow.

BRAND RESIDENTS TO HEAR FROM EXPERT ON GUT BACTERIA

22 October 2020

The second lecture in the Brand Community Lecture Series will be given on November 5 by the Premier’s Research Fellow, Professor Elaine Holmes.

CHILDCARE FEES CRIPPLING FAMILIES IN ROCKINGHAM AND KWINANA

16 October 2020

The cost of childcare for families in Rockingham and Kwinana is continuing to rise much faster than the national average and well above the rate of inflation, according to the Federal Government’s latest data.

BRAND MISSES OUT AGAIN IN FEDERAL BUDGET

08 October 2020

The Morrison Government continues to ignore the people of Brand, delivering a Federal Budget that falls well short of what is needed to create jobs and boost our local economy.