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Five Years of Broadband Policy Failure from Labor
Paul Fletcher’s Broadband Briefing
Five years after Labor announced its broadband policy, Australia’s broadband penetration ranking has dropped and Labor’s policy has made zero difference to the broadband service received by 99.9 per cent of Australians.
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Principal's Courageous Action Highlights Threat of Cyberbullying
A Queensland Principal's decisive and courageous action - threatening to expel children under 13 with Facebook profiles - highlights the real dangers of unrestricted social media use by children too young to judge the risks involved, said Paul Fletcher MP, Chair of the Coalition's Online Safety Working Group.
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Bradfield Community Meeting Calls on Gillard to Apologise
A Community Meeting held by Paul Fletcher MP, Member for Bradfield has resolved to call on Prime Minister Julia Gillard to apologise for her divisive and inappropriate comments about Sydney’s North Shore.
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Investors defrauded of $176 million in Trio collapse, parliamentary committee finds
Over 6000 Australian superannuation and other investors were defrauded of $176 million in the Trio scandal according to a Parliamentary Committee report just released, Member for Bradfield Paul Fletcher said today.
Mr Fletcher, a member of the Parliament's Corporations and Financial Services Committee, said the Committee began its inquiry last year on his recommendation, after he was approached by constituents who had lost money in the collapse of Trio.
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Schoolkids Bonus Budget Measures
Mr FLETCHER (Bradfield) (10:51): I am pleased to rise to speak on the Family Assistance and Other Legislation Amendment (Schoolkids Bonus Budget Measures) Bill 2012. Let me start by noting that the process under which the House of Representatives is being asked to consider this bill is a deeply deficient one. The first official announcement of this measure was in the Treasurer's budget speech last night. We now have a bill which was introduced this morning that was only available to members of the House to review from 9.30 this morning.
Written on Tuesday, 15 May 2012 00:00 in Parliamentary Speeches Read 30 times Read more...
Paul Fletcher MP - Federal Member for Bradfield - Liberal Party
What is the Coalition’s attitude towards local medical services?
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The Coalition strongly supports general practice as the cornerstone of primary healthcare.
The Coalition’s policy at the 2010 Federal election was to invest significantly in longer GP consultations, after-hours care, practice nurse services, MRI referrals, infrastructure grants and rural bonded scholarships.
Access to mental health services is also a priority issue for the community. The Coalition took a comprehensive $1.5 billion plan to the recent election to greatly improve access to services through 800 additional mental health beds, 60 new headspace sites and 20 early psychosis prevention and intervention centres.
The Coalition shares the concerns of many health and medical professionals that Labor’s policies undermine the doctor-patient relationship and the viability of existing family GP services.
The bungled implementation of the GP Super Clinics program represents another policy delivery failure for the Labor Government with only four of the original 36 fully operational after an entire term of Government.
Many doctors and other health professionals – and many patients - are also concerned that the viability of existing family GP practices will be jeopardised by Labor’s poor implementation of this program.
There is evidence that an unfair regulatory environment has been created for existing family GP clinics who have invested in valuable services for the community over many years. The withdrawal of services by established family GPs will be detrimental to patients who have grown to trust and rely on the dedicated services of their family GP over many years.
The Coalition will be seeking to ensure that no existing general practice services will be reduced or closed as a result of the Government’s GP Super Clinics program.