LOCAL RELEASES
MORE HELP FOR FAMILIES IN BRAND, LESS PRESSURE ON HOSPITALS
18 April 2022
Under Labor, families in Brand will get the bulk billed urgent medical care they need, without having to wait hours at over-burdened hospital emergency departments.
FEDERAL LABOR IS BACKING OUR WA VETERANS AND DEFENCE PERSONNEL
08 March 2022
An Albanese Labor Government will invest in defence personnel and veterans in Western Australia by providing $5 million in funding for a new Veteran Wellbeing Centre south of Perth.
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.