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April 2007

• Only FAMILY FIRST Has a Workplace Plan That is Pro-Worker and Pro-Business

  Press Releases April 30 2007  |  Download press release  |  Read more »

  FAMILY FIRST is the only party with a workplace plan that strikes a real balance between the needs of workers and the needs of business, particularly small business.

• ANZAC Day Not Guaranteed as a Public Holiday

  Press Releases April 22 2007  |  Download press release  |  Read more »

  ANZAC Day is not guaranteed as a public holiday.

  Before Work Choices, public holidays like Anzac Day were guaranteed conditions. Workers had a legal right to take them off. But if they did work, they were guaranteed penalty rates.

• Federal Government Turning Blind Eye to Black Spot

  Press Releases April 18 2007  |  Download press release  |  Read more »

  The Federal Government is turning a blind eye to the dangerous Princes Highway and must immediately fund its upgrade, FAMILY FIRST Leader Steve Fielding said today.

• Loss of Conditions Shows Need for FAMILY FIRST’s Workplace Bill

  Press Releases April 17 2007  |  Download press release  |  Read more »

  REPORTS today of secret figures showing almost half of all workers on individual contracts are being fleeced of basic conditions like public holidays and penalty rates shows the need for FAMILY FIRST’s Bill to give back to workers what the Howard Government has taken away.

• Top Health Expert Endorses FAMILY FIRST’s Plan on Alcohol Toll

  Press Releases April 17 2007  |  Download press release  |  Read more »

  ONE of Australia’s top health experts has endorsed FAMILY FIRST’s campaign and 10-point action plan to reduce Australia’s alcohol toll.
  Dr Alex Wodak, director of the alcohol and drug service at Sydney’s St Vincent’s Hospital and president of the Australian Drug Law Reform Foundation, commended FAMILY FIRST for taking up an important issue the major parties have ignored.

• Kevin Rudd’s Support for FAMILY FIRST’s Workplace Legislation

  Press Releases April 17 2007  |  Download press release  |  Read more »

  KEVIN Rudd’s comments today that he plans to restore basic working conditions are an endorsement of FAMILY FIRST’s workplace legislation.

• FAMILY FIRST’s 10-Point Plan to Reduce Australia’s ALcohol Toll

  Press Releases April 16 2007  |  Download press release  |  Read more »

  Australia has a drinking problem. Alcohol is a legal substance which is killing Australians, particularly young Australians, and FAMILY FIRST is today launching a campaign to reduce the alcohol toll.

• Families at Risk in Federal Government’s Failure to Fund Superpipe

  Press Releases April 16 2007  |  Download press release  |  Read more »

  FAMILIES in Bendigo and Ballarat could face skyrocketing water prices unless the Federal Government funds the Goldfields Superpipe, FAMILY FIRST leader Steve Fielding warned today.

• Australians Want a Party that Supports Family Values Not Extemism

  Press Releases April 13 2007  |  Download press release  |  Read more »

  Leopards cannot change their spots.

  Despite the extreme Greens’ latest marketing attempts to make themselves more presentable, the fundamentals haven’t changed.

• FAMILY FIRST Calls on Kevin Rudd to Put Up or Shut Up

  Press Releases April 12 2007  |  Download press release  |  Read more »

  FAMILY FIRST calls on Labor leader Kevin Rudd to immediately release the detail of his industrial relations plan. Kevin Rudd has to put up or shut up.

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