Federal Member for Bonner Ross Vasta has visited LEAD Childcare Tingalpa to congratulate them on receiving a Most Improved Service award for their outstanding work this year, and to discuss their work helping families transition to the new Child Care Subsidy. The centre received the award out of 16 LEAD childcare services across Queensland at…
DetailsMakeables Tingalpa has invited local businesses to help provide valuable job skills and experience to people with disability. Makeables, an innovation of Multicap, is a not-for-profit disability employer that provides employment, job skills and lasting working relationships for people with a disability by delivering outstanding packaging and supply chain solutions. Local businesses in need of…
DetailsNutrition will be the theme for this year’s Veterans’ Health Week, with funding for applications to support events highlighting the week now open for Ex-Service organisations (ESOs) and community groups. Federal Member for Bonner Ross Vasta said Veterans’ Health Week in September was a fantastic opportunity for Ex-Service organisations and community groups to positively engage…
DetailsIt’s time Labor’s Amanda Rishworth familiarised herself with the Turnbull Government’s reforms to early childhood education and care so that she stops falsely scaring Bonner families, especially given she’s said a Shorten Labor Government would adopt our policy. “I intend to allow the new system to have time to bed down before I look at…
DetailsFamilies in Bonner are urged to make the switch to the Turnbull Government’s new child care and early learning system or risk missing out on the new subsidies. New data shows that with just weeks to go until the new system starts on 2 July, around 48% of families have already made the switch. “Families…
DetailsFederal Member for Bonner Ross Vasta today thanked everyone who has put in nominations for the second annual Bonner Volunteer Awards. The Bonner Volunteer Awards recognise individuals and groups that have demonstrated outstanding volunteer qualities, made a significant and lasting contribution to the community, and set a good example for fellow volunteers and inspired others…
DetailsLocal residents in Carindale flocked to take selfies with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and local MP Ross Vasta after the two were spotted walking through the Westfield shopping centre. Prior to a scheduled ‘Politics in the Pub’ event at the Carindale hotel, Prime Minister Turnbull and Mr Vasta took an impromptu walk through the food…
DetailsLytton company Advanced Robotic Technology (ART) is one of the successful recipients of a grant provided under the Accelerating Commercialisation element of the Australian Government’s Entrepreneurs’ Programme, Federal Member for Bonner Ross Vasta said today. ART has developed an advanced robotic structural steel processing system that has the potential to help Australian firms better compete…
DetailsThe Turnbull Government has announced in the 2018-19 Budget the listing of a life-changing breast cancer medicine on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme that would otherwise cost patients around $71,820 per year. Federal Member for Bonner, Ross Vasta, who today attended a Breast Cancer Australia afternoon tea held for women undergoing treatment for breast cancer, welcomed…
DetailsFederal Minister for Urban Infrastructure and Cities Paul Fletcher today joined Federal Member for Bonner Ross Vasta to inspect the intersection of Newnham Road and Wecker Road at Mt Gravatt East. Mr Vasta recently launched a community petition to fix the intersection that has already gathered hundreds of signatures. “This is a terrible intersection that…
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