Monthly Archives: February 2009

Attorney-General Robert McClelland has activated the Commonwealth Disaster Plan for New South Wales, authorising the use of Defence Force assets to support New South Wales fight fires at Singleton, in the Hunter Valley. The New South Wales Government has requested … Continue reading →

Attorney-General Robert McClelland has activated the Commonwealth Disaster plan, authorising the use of the Defence Force to supply and deliver thousands of food packs into the flooded Ingham area of North Queensland. The Queensland Government has made a request for … Continue reading →

Local MPs representing the St George region, Daryl Melham, Tony Burke and Robert McClelland, today welcomed the Rudd Government’s decisive $42 billion Nation Building and Jobs Plan which will support local jobs and significantly invest in local businesses and schools. … Continue reading →

The Prime Minister has today announced that legal profession reform will form part of the Government’s ongoing micro-economic reform agenda to strengthen the Australian economy in the face of the global financial crisis. Pursuing this important reform complements the decisive … Continue reading →

Attorney-General Robert McClelland has today authorised the use of Defence Force resources to urgently fly replacement communications fibre optic cable into the northwest of Western Australia. This follows the severing of a Telstra communications cable in the flooded Fitzroy River, … Continue reading →

Attorney-General Robert McClelland today welcomed the release of a report by the Australian Institute of Criminology on prevention of deliberate bushfires in Australia. The report, which provides recommendations on how to reduce the estimated $1.6 billion in damage caused by … Continue reading →