The launch of the Emergency+ smartphone app by the Australian Government. When activated, the Emergency+ app provides users with their GPS reference which they can verbally provide to an emergency call taker to pinpoint their physical location. The increase in mobile phone use by Australians means that more than 65 per…
Small businesses and family enterprises in Bonner are one step closer to reduced red tape with the House of Representatives passing legislation to simplify payments under the Paid Parental Leave scheme. “The small businesses in Bonner have been unnecessarily bearing the ‘pay clerk’ burden and costs of the extra workload, not to…
Ross Vasta today announced that Government, Catholic and Independent schools throughout Bonner will have the funding certainty they need as a result of the Coalition Government investing an additional $2.8 billion over the next four years. “Labor left school funding in a mess,” said Ross Vasta. “Labor’s funding model was not…
The Coalition Government is keeping its election promise to the Australian people, with the House of Representatives yesterday voting to scrap the carbon tax. “The people of Bonner voted against the Carbon Tax and now I fulfilled my commitment to them in the Parliament,” said Ross Vasta the member for Bonner. “This was…
There is further proof that the carbon tax is a pointless burden on Australian families and businesses. The latest Quarterly Update of Australia’s National Greenhouse Gas Inventory report released today shows Australia’s emissions for the year to March 2013 are unchanged from the previous year. We already knew that the carbon tax is a multi-billion…
The Coalition has long been committed to the sale of Medibank Private. Medibank Private is a commercial business operating in a well functioning and competitive market with 34 competing funds. As such there is no compelling policy reason for the Government to continue to own Medibank. The privatisation of Medibank will also remove the current…
More than 740,000 Australian pensioners will benefit from the lowering of the social security deeming rates from 4 November 2013. The Minister for Social Services, Kevin Andrews, said the deeming rate will decrease to 2 per cent from 2.5 per cent for financial investments up to $46,600 for single pensioners and allowees, $77,400 for pensioner…
The decision by the Labor Opposition not to support the unconditional removal of the Carbon Tax confirms that nothing has changed with Labor.Bill Shorten has failed his first test of leadership.Instead of supporting the repeal of the Carbon Tax, Mr Shorten and Labor now want to “amend it” and, importantly, keep in place the laws that…
LNP Member for Bonner Ross Vasta is warning voters they risk getting a fine if they cannot get to a polling booth on Saturday and don’t vote early.Ross Vasta reminded voters that it was compulsory to vote in this year’s Federal election regardless of whether or not they were in the local area, interstate or…
The Coalition understands the importance of business and consumer confidence and wants confidence to return to Australia’s car sector.We want Australians to know that they can buy or lease a new motor vehicle with confidence, secure in the knowledge that a Coalition Government will not proceed with the Labor Government’s poorly thought through changes to…