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November 24, 2011
I rise to add my support to the Social Security Legislation Amendment (Family Participation Measures) Bill 2011. This bill introduces amendments to the Social Security Act 1991 and the Social Security (Administration) Act 1999 with the aim of helping teenage parents and jobless families in particular. It identifies some 10 disadvantaged locations across Australia where trials will be undertaken to... Click here for full story
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November 23, 2011
I also rise to speak on the package of 11 bills which form the minerals resource rent tax legislation 2011. The introduction of the carbon tax was a big blow to the mineral industries in Australia, and now this minerals resource rent tax requires the minerals sector to dig even deeper to fill the holes left after Labor's profligate spending.We are told this tax was negotiated with three large comp... Click here for full story
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November 23, 2011
This motion is about the great distress and hardship that is now afflicting some farming families who have been caught up in a backflip, a change of mind, in relation to Exceptional Circumstances Exit Grants. We hope through this motion that the government will change its mind and put less than $5 million into making good on what, we believe, was a commitment that will give some farm families a ch... Click here for full story
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November 23, 2011
The date 27 May 2011 is seared into the memories of the citizens of the tiny town of Girgarre in Northern Victoria. Girgarre is typical of your country town: a population of about 600 people, a great little school, great footy and netball teams, a new war memorial outside the RSL, a regular farmers market and now a famous annual music muster dedicated to learners and performers run by volunteers.L... Click here for full story
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November 7, 2011
Dr STONE (Murray) (20:40): I have great pleasure in seconding this motion, which notes that it is the 10th anniversary of the Harkin-Engel Protocol, which aimed to help bring an end to the use of forced child labour in cocoa production. The protocol drew attention to the plight of trafficked children in the cocoa plantations of West Africa, notably in Cote D'Ivoire and Ghana. West Africa produces ... Click here for full story
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November 7, 2011
Dr STONE (Murray) (12:35): I rise to speak on the Social Security Amendment (Student Income Support Reforms) Bill 2011. I can understand why the previous speaker, the member for Lyne, was so shrill in defence of his actions. I think he stands condemned and should be ashamed for his blocking and cutting down of debate on this legislation the last time it was before the parliament. It was because o... Click here for full story
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November 7, 2011
Dr STONE (Murray) (11:32): The motion put by the member for La Trobe refers to a valuable alternative program to years 11 and 12 offered in the final years of Victorian secondary schooling. The member said that VCAL funds have been cut, but that is quite simply misinformation. In reality, there is no reduction to actual student funding for the Victorian Certificate of Applied Learning, commonly ca... Click here for full story
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September 25, 2011
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Tuesday, 20 September 2011
Dr STONE (Murray) (17:51): Life has been very tough for thousands of hardworking families in my electorate of Murray in northern Victoria over the last few years, yet the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, and Senator Brown, Leader... Click here for full story
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September 14, 2011
House of Representatives
12 September 2011
FOETAL ALCOHOL SPECTRUM DISORDER
The order of the day having been read for the resumption of the debate on the motion of Dr Stone—That this House:
(1) notes that:
(a) Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) is an overarching term used to describe a range of
physical, mental, behavioural, learning and development diso... Click here for full story
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August 26, 2011
Long Tan Speech to House of Representatives
18:20 Wednesday 24th August 2011
I join others in supporting this motion. As a patron of the Goulburn Valley Vietnam Veterans Association and also as the proud mother of an Australian Army officer, I can say that I have some sense of what it must have been like for the mothers, the wives and the sisters of the Vietnam veterans as they returned ... Click here for full story
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