Member for Western Victoria, Gayle Tierney is continuing to apply pressure on the Baillieu Government to immediately reinstate funding for the National Centre for Farmer Health. In response to the Minister’s answer provided in the last Parliament sitting week Ms Tierney accused the Baillieu Government of passing the funding buck to the Federal Government. “The…
State Labor Upper House Members Gayle Tierney and Jaala Pulford have continued their support for Golden Plains Shire calling on the Government to fund Bannockburn K-12 in Parliament this week. Ms Tierney said the hard work from the Golden Plains Shire has not slowed, but the support from the state government has ground to a…
My adjournment matter this evening is directed to the Minister for Agriculture and Food Security, and it relates to the Baillieu government’s decision to close Department of Primary Industries (DPI) offices in Western Victoria Region. Over the past weeks and months my electorate office has been very busy dealing with emails, telephone calls and constituents…
Ms TIERNEY (Western Victoria) — I will also make a contribution in relation to taking note of the 2012-13 budget papers. In preparation for my budget response today, I revisited my response to last year’s midyear financial report and the economic and social environment that the state was in at that time. It is true…
I also congratulate Portarlington Community Association and the combined local community groups that held the Biggest Afternoon Tea last Thursday, coordinated by Madge Pinge and Gemma Tobschall. They raised a massive amount of $11 000, and I thank them for their amazing contribution, which will go to the cancer centre in Geelong. The volunteers on…
I also congratulate the Geelong Manufacturing Council for holding a two-day conference last Tuesday and Wednesday on clean technology. It was a very well-attended conference and provided an enormous amount of practical information and contacts to a whole range of businesses in Geelong and the surrounding area.
Last month in Texas, Donna Campbell, a researcher at the Geelong Hospital, was given the international excellence in clinical research award for outstanding leadership. The award was in recognition of Ms Campbell’s work in setting up pharmaceutical research trials and, more recently, the work she has done with GP-based Alzheimer’s disease trials. This is an…