Community Legal Centres essential to a fair justice system
Wednesday, 01 March 2017 10:55In Western Australia we copped the double whammy. We have had cuts to financial advice services from the Barnett government and we now have the Turnbull government intent on cutting a full third of existing funding to CLCs, even though this will do harm to both individuals and the budget bottom line. It is bad government, plain and simple.
WA Government setting all the wrong records
Tuesday, 28 February 2017 13:39For the sake of jobs, for the sake of freight reliability and for the sake of regional security and our humanitarian disaster response capacity, we must act to strengthen and protect Australian shipping, Australian shipbuilding and the jobs and livelihoods of Australian seafarers. We must keep Fremantle port in public ownership. We must overcome the madness of the Perth Freight Link. Only Labor has those policies. Only Labor makes that commitment.
Coalition Goverment taking WA for granted
Monday, 27 February 2017 13:02So the area of greatest need in Western Australia, outer metro suburbs which have a particular regional function in WA, are going to get nothing as the NSRF becomes the Building Better Regions Fund.
Where's our infrastructure funding, Malcolm?
Wednesday, 15 February 2017 15:38There has been two-fifths of nothing for the people of Western Australia—no public transport, no congestion-busting projects like Community Connect South, no properly delivered broadband, no investment in projects like the second stage of the floating dock.
Renewable energy is the way forward
Tuesday, 14 February 2017 16:01There is only one way to protect our public assets, jobs and power prices; it is time to switch off the Colin Barnett government.
