Older people in Bonner will get extra support and care services-such as cleaning, meals, nursing care and transport-to remain living independently at home thanks to a $1,280,052 Australian Government investment. The Member for Bonner, Ross Vasta MP, said the funding was part of a $240 million investment under the Commonwealth Home and Community Care (HACC)…
Ross Vasta welcomes the decision by the Australian Taxation Office to withdraw its draft ruling about the way GST is applied to moveable home sites. The decision means there will be no change to the longstanding GST treatment of rented mobile homes. Submissions about the draft ruling convinced the ATO that mobile home…
Ross Vasta Member for Bonner said he was pleased with the progress the new Government has made in the first 100 days since the election. Monday 16 December marks 100 days since the 7 September election. “We are implementing the plan that we took to the election to build a strong, prosperous economy and…
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…