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September 2005

• Family First calls For Inquiry On Penatly

  Press Releases September 26 2005  |  Download press release  |  Read more »

  Under the Government’s workplace changes, employers would not be required to pay penalty rates (overtime and shift allowances).

  In considering whether the Government should allow employers the option of paying penalty rates, it is important to remember that they were the first paid work/family initiative.

• SPEECH TO PARLIAMENT: TRUTH IN FOOD LABELLING BILL

  Speeches September 15 2005  |  Download speech  |  Read more »

  Family First supports honest, accurate and prominent labelling of food products because this allows consumers to make informed decisions about what they buy.

  Labelling makes retailers and manufacturers accountable for what they serve up to consumers.

• SPEECH TO PARLIAMENT: TELSTRA (Transition to Full Privat Ownership) Bill 2005

  Speeches September 14 2005  |  Download speech  |  Read more »

  Mr President, at the outset may I say that for the record one of my brothers is an executive in Telstra—though, as I have learned in the last few weeks, that doesn’t mean that I am not as much in the dark as everybody else when it comes to knowing what goes on in Telstra.
  Family First is disappointed that the Government, which claims to be a champion of the family, is refusing to tell families how selling the rest of Telstra will affect them.

• Family First Rejects Telstra Sale

  Press Releases September 13 2005  |  Download press release  |  Read more »

  Family First is disappointed that the Government, which claims to be a champion of the family, is refusing to tell families how selling the rest of Telstra will affect them.

  When the Prime Minister announced during the election campaign that he would take up Family First’s proposal to prepare Family Impact Statements, the public thought the idea was to benefit them. So did Family First.

• Family First Says no to Government’s Broken Election Promise

  Press Releases September 05 2005  |  Download press release  |  Read more »

  The Government’s decision to increase the Medicare safety net limits is disturbing. It breaks the Government’s promise to Australian families that it would make sure everybody could afford medical services.