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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
Paul demands a fair go for Hornsby Hospital in Federal Parliament
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Paul Fletcher spoke in Federal Parliament yesterday to demand a fair go for Hornsby Hospital - the major public hospital in Bradfield.
Mr Fletcher told the Parliament that the hospital has fine medical staff who work in difficult circumstances because much of the hospital is in very poor condition.
Mr Fletcher said that the situation was so desperate that the hospital’s medical staff had been forced to mount a campaign calling on the New South Wales government to urgently fund improvement to the facilities there.
“I was recently with the chair of the medical staff council, Dr Richard Harris, in Hornsby Mall gathering signatures for a petition. The petition will be presented in this Parliament, and I hope to be able to do that in coming weeks,” Mr Fletcher told the Federal Parliament.
Mr Fletcher noted that the great majority of hospitals in New South Wales which had received significant capital funding for facilities improvements in the last ten years were in Labor seats: Auburn Hospital in the electorate of Auburn; Wyong Hospital (Wyong); Campbelltown Hospital (Wollondilly); Concord Hospital (Drummoyne); Prince of Wales Hospital (Coogee); Liverpool Hospital (Liverpool); Royal Prince Alfred Hospital (Marrickville) and Westmead Hospital (Parramatta).
Mr Fletcher noted that the New South Wales Labor Government’s mismanagement of hospital funding in New South Wales was compounded by its failure to secure a fair share of funding from the Rudd Government’s $3.1 billion Health and Hospitals Fund.
Not only did NSW get only $424 million – less than Victoria, Queensland and Western Australia, and well below New South Wales’s share of the population – but there was not one cent for Hornsby Hospital.
Mr Fletcher said it was a matter for considerable regret that something as important as health funding has been so clearly the subject of political decision making.
“On behalf of the people of Hornsby and the surrounding areas, give us a fair go for Hornsby Hospital”, Mr Fletcher concluded.
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| Paul Fletcher with Dr Richard Harris | Paul Fletcher with a Bradfield Resident |