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September 2006

• Get Ready for Telstra’s Slash and Burn Strategy

  Press Releases September 29 2006  |  Download press release  |  Read more »

  Telstra’s secret plans to axe more public phones across Melbourne is just the start of its slash and burn agenda.

  FAMILY FIRST strongly opposed flogging off the rest of Telstra, warning that services would be cut to boost profits.

• FAMILY FIRST at the Royal Melbourne Show

  Press Releases September 21 2006  |  Download press release  |  Read more »

  What’s a political party doing at the Royal Melbourne Show?

  FAMILY FIRST thinks a stand at the Show is a great way for the party to meet Victorian families and listen to their concerns.  This is the second year FAMILY FIRST has had a stand at the Show.

• FAMILY FIRST Raises $490 Selling Shorts for Charity

  Press Releases September 19 2006  |  Download press release  |  Read more »

  FAMILY FIRST leader Steve Fielding today raised $490 for charity after selling his shorts on auction site eBay.  The winning bid was from a FAMILY FIRST member.

• FAMILY FIRST Launches Campaign: “Hands Off Medibank Private”

  Press Releases September 17 2006  |  Download press release  |  Read more »

  FAMILY FIRST today launches its campaign “Hands off Medibank Private”.

  FAMILY FIRST will be distributing bumper stickers across the country calling on the Government to ditch its plan to flog off Australia’s largest insurer.

• First Our Parliament Imports Paper - Now It’s Mugs!

  Press Releases September 14 2006  |  Download press release  |  Read more »

  For more than a year FAMILY FIRST has raised concerns about the Australian Parliament importing paper – first from the United Kingdom and then Germany.

• QUESTION WITHOUT NOTICE: AUSTRALIAN MADE PRODUCTS

  Speeches September 14 2006  |  Download speech  |  Read more »

  My question is to the Minister for Finance and Administration, Senator Minchin. Minister, FAMILY FIRST believes that the Australian parliament should be a showcase for Australian-made products to proudly display Aussie talent. Recently, however, senators received a new set of mugs with the Senate logo, and they are made in China. Minister, why don’t government procurement guidelines recognise that Australia’s parliament should showcase Australian-made products?

• SPEECH TO PARLIAMENT: EUTHANASIA Suspension of standing orders to debate the motion

  Speeches September 14 2006  |  Download speech  |  Read more »

  “That the Senate supports the right of Australians to die with dignity”

• Major Parties Do Over Small Business

  Press Releases September 13 2006  |  Download press release  |  Read more »

  FAMILY FIRST condemns the Coalition and Labor for doing over small business to keep sweet with their big business mates.

  Government legislation – which passed the Senate today – gives the green light to Coles and Woolworths, which already control up to 70 per cent of the petrol market, to get even bigger.

• SPPECH TO PARLIAMENT: PETROLEUM RETAIL LEGISLATION REPEAL BILL 2006

  Speeches September 11 2006  |  Download speech  |  Read more »

  Family First believes the Petroleum Retail Legislation Repeal Bill 2006 will not ensure the lowest possible petrol prices for families and small businesses. That is why Family First will be moving amendments to the bill to ensure that no company selling petrol can own or operate more than 25 per cent of petrol retail sites. Family First wants to try to level the playing field for small businesses competing with the oil giants because that will lead to the lowest possible petrol prices for families and small businesses.

• SPEECH TO PARLIAMENT on the Report of the Community Affairs Legislation Committee

  Speeches September 11 2006  |  Download speech  |  Read more »

  on the Transparent Advertising and Notification of Pregnancy Counselling Services Bill 2005

  I rise to speak to the Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee’s report on the Transparent Advertising and Notification of Pregnancy Counselling Services Bill 2005.

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