EMPLOYMENT AND TRADE: JOB LOSSES

To ask the Assistant Treasurer (for  the Minister for Employment and Trade): In  relation to the 20  job  losses due to the  redundancies made at Brockman  Engineering in Geelong, what assistance will the  Napthine  government provide these workers who have been affected by these job cuts just weeks before Christmas. ANSWER: I am informed that:…

BEAUFORT AMBULANCE STATION

My adjournment matter is for the attention of the  Minister for Health,  David  Davis, who is in  the  chamber, and it  is  in relation to  ambulance  services  in  Beaufort. In the May 2012 state budget the coalition government promised  a  new  24-hour  ambulance  station for Beaufort. However,  late  last year  an  internal  memo leaked  to …

TIERNEY FIGHTS FOR COLAC FINANCIAL COUNSELING SERVICE

Member for Western Victoria Gayle Tierney has taken the fight to retain Colac Area Health’s financial counselling program to State Parliament. In a speech made last night, Ms Tierney called on the Minister for Health, David Davis to immediately restore funding to the financial counselling service. “Cutting funding for such a valuable service in Colac…