The Federal Member for Aston, the Hon Alan Tudge MP, has announced the National Broadband Network (NBN) will be rolled out throughout Knox from next year. As part of the NBN, superfast broadband is coming to the electorate of Aston under the accelerated rollout plan. Construction will begin next year with 90 per cent…
The Federal Member for Aston, the Hon Alan Tudge MP, has announced the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is set to start rolling out in Knox from 1 November 2017. The Prime Minister, Hon Malcolm Turnbull MP, today signed the formal agreement with the Victorian Government for the full NDIS roll out plan in the…
The Federal Member for Aston, the Hon Alan Tudge MP, has launched the Aston Ice Report on behalf of Knox residents outlining a plan of action for tackling the ice epidemic locally and nationally. Following the Federal Government’s announcement of a National Ice Action Strategy, Mr Tudge asked for feedback and ideas from local…
The Australian: The overwhelming feeling from the Prime Minister’s visit to indigenous communities late last month was optimism. That the tide may be turning and conditions slowly but steadily improving. In the seemingly intractable area of remote indigenous disadvantage, have we turned the corner? The week was spent in the Torres Strait Islands and northern…
The Federal Member for Aston, the Hon Alan Tudge MP, has presented the first 2015 Aston Shield award to a local student. Year 12 Waverly Christian College student Ezra Holt was awarded the prestigious Aston Shield award at a ceremony as part of the school’s assembly this morning. The award is named in honour of…
The Australian: What responsibility should we have over how welfare is delivered to those in need? Since the introduction of federal unemployment benefits in 1944, the government has provided welfare in cash. The reason is expedience: dropping cash into an account is simpler and cheaper than the traditional church welfare of providing clothes, food or…
The Australian: What responsibility should we have over how welfare is delivered to those in need? Since the introduction of federal unemployment benefits in 1944, the government has provided welfare in cash. The reason is expedience: dropping cash into an account is simpler and cheaper than the traditional church welfare of providing clothes, food or…
PARLIAMENT HOUSE, Canberra: Australia is in the midst of an ice epidemic. Every state and local government is affected, with the devastating effects of ice destroying young people and families across the country. Unfortunately the Knox municipality, which coincides broadly with the boundaries of my electorate of Aston, is not immune. In fact Knox has…
PARLIAMENT HOUSE, Canberra:Mr Speaker, may I congratulate you on your election to this high office. Labor are experts at peddling false information about the government’s policies. As we know, they will suggest that we have cut things when we have in fact increased the funding. They peddle misinformation in relation to our industrial relations policy.…
PARLIAMENT HOUSE, Canberra: I did not know Don Randall as well as Ken Wyatt and some of the other contributors have known him, but over the years I did get to know him quite well. I would like to take this opportunity to offer my condolences to Julie, his wife, and to Tess and Elliott…