November 2008

  • Rudd Plan Holds Schools To Ransom

    Press Releases November 28 2008  |  Download press release  |  Read more »

    The Rudd government is holding private schools to ransom, forcing them to agree to a national curriculum on private schools without even seeing the detail or face losing federal funding, Family First Leader Senator Steve Fielding said today.

  • Permit System Doesn’t Help Indigenous Australians

    Press Releases November 27 2008  |  Download press release  |  Read more »

    Family First is not convinced the permit system does anything to stop child abuse or drug and alcohol addiction in Indigenous communities and that’s why Family First voted not to have permits reinstated. 

  • Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs and Other Legislation Amendment

    Speeches November 27 2008  |  Download speech  |  Read more »

    Just over a year ago, both Labor and the coalition agreed to put in place a range of emergency measures in response to the problems of child sexual abuse confirmed in the Little children are sacred report.

  • Government ‘Blind Drunk’ On Alcohol Revenue

    Press Releases November 26 2008  |  Download press release  |  Read more »

    The Federal Government must be blind drunk on alcohol revenue to delay restricting alcohol ads on television when 72% of Australians want it.

  • Government’s Got Wrong End of The Pipe

    Press Releases November 25 2008  |  Download press release  |  Read more »

    The Sugarloaf Pipeline should be scrapped and replaced with a pipe from Tasmania that would deliver three times Victoria’s demand for water.

  • What’s Goldilocks Got To Do With Workplace Laws?

    Press Releases November 25 2008  |  Download press release  |  Read more »

    Australia’s workplace relations debate is like the story of Goldilocks – we can look at a number of options but in the end we have to get the workplace laws “just right”.

  • Water Amendment Bill 2008

    Speeches November 25 2008  |  Download speech  |  Read more »

    Last week I was told a distressing story. A grower from Mildura I had met on a visit there spoke about his uncle, a man who had been growing vines on his property for more than 40 years, following on from his father before him.

    The property had been part of his family for generations and the family had dealt with hard times in the past, but the current drought and the lack of water have crippled them.

    Five years ago the grower’s property was worth a million dollars. He sold it recently for less than a third of that and was left without enough money to clear his debts.

  • It’s Tough Keeping The Bastards Honest

    News Clippings Steve Fielding, by Steve Fielding, November 25 2008  |  Download clipping  |  Read more »

    Natasha Stott Despoja was right about one thing she wrote in her diatribe against Family First on November 18 , it is tough on the cross bench and being a lone voice in the Senate is challenging. It’s tough, as Don Chipp once said, to keep the bastards honest.

  • Social Security and Other Legislation Amendment (Economic Security Strategy) Bill 2008

    Speeches November 24 2008  |  Download speech  |  Read more »

    It has been a long time coming, but finally Australia’s four million pensioners, carers and seniors will get some help they so desperately need.

    Family First supports the Social Security and Other Legislation Amendment (Economic Security Strategy) Bill 2008, which provides a $10.4 billion stimulus to the Australian economy by giving Australia’s pensioners, carers and seniors and two million families bonus lump-sum payments early next month.

  • National Rental Affordability Scheme Bill 2008

    Speeches November 24 2008  |  Download speech  |  Read more »

    Home is a word that encompasses so much: a place to belong, somewhere safe, a haven or a refuge. But for 100,000 Australians home is a transitory thing. It is huddling in a cardboard box, sheltering in a doorway out of the rain or being bunked down on a friend’s couch with nowhere to go the next night. Home for these people is a temporary thing and does not come close to being a refuge from the world.

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