HON ALAN TUDGE MP Minister for Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs Speech at the Australia-UK Leadership Forum London ***CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY*** Thank you for the opportunity to lead this discussion on maintaining social cohesion and social trust. This is a big and important topic and goes to the heart of a well-functioning society. Our previous sessions…
HON ALAN TUDGE MP Minister for Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs Speech to The Sydney Institute Sydney, 14 June 2018 *** Check against delivery *** Introduction Earlier in the year, in a major speech at the Menzies Research Centre, I outlined the emerging challenges that we face as a successful multicultural nation. My key point was…
Hon Alan Tudge MP, the Federal Member for Aston, has today announced $423,000 for a project to improve and create a safer Boronia. This is a project that Mr Tudge has backed and fought for and comes on top of other local community safety projects he has delivered. The new funding has been committed under…
Turnbull Government investing $475 million to build transformational Monash Rail The Turnbull Government will invest $475 million to build the transformational Monash Rail line, tackling congestion and creating a vital transport link to a thriving jobs and education hub. Federal Minister for Urban Infrastructure and Cities Paul Fletcher said the funding, announced in the Federal…
The Turnbull Government will build the Melbourne Airport Rail Link, connecting the CBD and Tullamarine Airport for all Victorians. Alan Tudge MP said that a rail connection to Melbourne Airport had been talked about for 50 years but would now be brought to fruition through an investment of $5 billion from the Turnbull Government. He…
HON ALAN TUDGE MP Minister for Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs Speech to the Menzies Research Centre Sydney, 7 March 2018 *** Check against delivery *** The Prime Minister is surely right when he states that Australia is the most successful multicultural country in the world. More people from more countries have come here to start…
The building of a long awaited traffic bridge in Knox, Victoria, has taken a step forward with the completion of a traffic study set to inform the delivery of the $4.57 million Henderson Road Bridge. Federal Member for Aston, Alan Tudge said the bridge which was an election commitment, would improve the connection between Rowville and…
In a pointed speech to Infrastructure Partnerships Australia yesterday, the original proponent of the East West Link, Sir Rod Eddington, again called on Daniel Andrews and the Victorian Labor Government to build the missing link. Sir Eddington expressed his disappointment at the State Labor Government’s scrapping of the project and the associated $1.2 billion…
The Federal Member for Aston, Alan Tudge MP, has announced the winners of the 2017 Aston Community Awards. The Aston Community Awards celebrate local volunteers and community groups who give their time, skill and energy to helping others and making the Knox community a better place to live. The overall winners in the four award…
It appears that the Labor Party, ACOSS, and health groups who oppose our drug testing trial would rather see the continuation of the same destructive path, than try something new to avoid it. This week, the two of us announced drug testing trials for new welfare recipients as a way of assisting people to…