Media 2006

DECEMBER 2006

• Port Kembla Industry Facilitation Fund (27/12/06)
   
• Labor Leadership - Joint Statement with Jennie George (4/12/06)
  
  
  NOVEMBER 2006
   
• Community Grants (30/11/06)
   
• 26 Local Schools Share in $2 Million Grants (28/11/06)
   
• BlueScope Tin Mill (28/11/06)
   
• Media Alert - Beyond Empathy Project Launch (21/11/06)
   
• Congratulations to Seawind Catamarans (20/11/06)
   
• Liberals and Business Mislead on High Court Industrial Relations Decision (15/11/06)
   
• High Court Decision on Industrial Relations (14/11/06)
   
• More Attacks on Pay and Conditions of Workers (13/11/06)
   
• Interest Rate Rise (7/11/06)
   
• Interest Rate Threat Compounded by Desperate Howard Government (6/11/06)
   
• Port Kembla Industry Facilitation Fund (3/11/06)
   
• Senator Demands Accountability, Then Goes into Hiding (2/11/06)
   
• Media Alert - Bird to Canvass Transport and Southern Group of Councils Meeting (2/11/06)
  
  
  OCTOBER 2006
   
• Can't You Take A Joke Senator? (31/10/06)
   
• Port Kembla Industry Facilitation Fund - Let's Get a Move ON (26/10/06)
   
• Minimum Wage Rise Welcome (26/10/06)
   
• Secret Price Hike for PBS Medicines - Joint Release with Julia Gillard MP (24/10/06)
   
• Wollongong Youth Unemployment Now 43.1% (24/10/06)
   
• Transport Corridor Study Expanded (20/10/06)
   
• Michelle Radford Presents $24,800 to Joanne Mackay Breast Cancer Foundation (19/10/06)
   
• BlueScope Steel Payment Delay Abysmal - Bird Refers Decision to ACCC (17/10/06)   Attachment
   
• Make Poverty History STAND UP! (16/101/06)
   
• Black Spot Nomination for Local Crash Sites (13/10/06)
   
• $180 Million Each Year Could Be Saved From John Howard's Spending Habits (13/10/06)
   
• Skills Catch Up (12/10/06)
   
• Save Medibank Private From Howard Sell-Off (5/10/06)  Attachment
   
• Media Alert - Recognition Awards (Reg and Marj Doherty) as part of Celebrating Seniors Awards (4/10/06)
   
• Time for Low Pay Freeze to End (2/10/06)
  
  
  SEPTEMBER 2006
   
• New Minister Must Expand Transport Corridor Study (24/9/06)
   
• Congratulations Seawind! (19/9/06)
   
• Jobless Figures Go Up in Wollongong (14/9/06)
   
• $100,000 to Wollongong Council for Flood Mitigation (8/9/06)
  
  
  AUGUST 2006
   
• Bird to Switch on $150,000 New Printing Machine for Local Printer (27/8/06)
   
• Success!!!  Herceptin Approved on PBS (22/8/06)
   
• Sydney-Wollongong Transport Corridor Strategy Underway (20/8/06)
   
• Australian Fair Pay Commission Wollongong Consultations (18/8/06)
   
• Wollongong's Unemployment Still Double National Figure (17/8/06)
   
• Ruddock Denies Funding for Legal Centres Conference in Wollongong (15/8/06)
   
• Maldon-Dombarton's Rise a Quiet Satisfaction (14/8/06)
   
• Port Kembla Assistance Package - Briefing Held This Afternoon (11/8/06)
   
• $13 Million to Wollongong City Council (11/8/06)
   
• Port Kembla Assistance Fund - Minister Agrees to Bird's Briefing Request (9/8/06)    Attachment   
   
• Bird Says Time for Detail on Port Kembla Assistance Fund (9/8/06)    Attachment 1    Attachment 2
   
• Labor Shadow Minister for Communications to Visit Wollongong (2/8/06)
   
• Interest Rates Up Again! (2/8/06)
  
  
  JULY 2006
   
• Child Care: Employer and Parent Partnership (28/7/06)
   
• Release Health Recommendations on MRI Approvals (24/07/06)
   
• Wollongong Overlooked Again on MRI Licence (23/07/06)
   
• Herceptin Now Needs Funds.  Last Hurdle is PBS Listing (14/7/06)
   
• Leadership of the Liberal Party (11/7/06)
  
  
  JUNE 2006
   
• Bird Welcomes Assistance Package (29/6/06)
   
• Letter to Treasurer on Port Kembla Assistance Package (29/6/06)    (Attachment)
   
• Small Business to Charge Interest on Unpaid Bills (27/6/06)
   
• Labor Forces Petrol Inquiry on Howard Government (21/6/06)
   
• WorkChoices: A Race to the Bottom (20/6/06)
   
• Volunteer Small Equipment Grants 2006 (19/6/06)
   
• IBC Overreacting to Labor Policy (16/6/06)
   
• Howard's Lawyers of Choice Bell the Cat on AWAs (13/6/06)
   
• Sharon Bird to Officially Open Illawarra Community Service Centre in Thirroul (8/6/06)
  
  
  MAY 2006
   
• Bird to Speak on Spotlight AWA Offer to Workers (25/5/06)    (Attachment)
   
• Senator Should Have Been a Journalist (25/5/06)
   
• 16 Local Schools Share $1.2 Million in Capital Funds (5/5/06)
   
• Howard Government Plays Politics on Local School Grants - Again! (3/5/06)
   
• Interest Rate Rise Pressures Family Budgets (3/5/06)
   
• Media Alert - Bird to Meet With Veterans and Promotes Free Hearing Tests (2/5/06)
   
• Bird Launches Work-Family Survey on May Day (1/5/06)
  
  
  APRIL 2006
   
• Second Chance, John!  MRI Licence for Wollongong Hospital (23/4/06)    (Attachment)
   
• Foreign Apprenticeship Visa to be Abolished by Labor (21/4/06)
   
• Cunningham Men, Women and Children Owe $24,276 for Australia's Foreign Debt (20/4/06)
   
• Lawyers Probe Still Unanswered After 7 Months (10/4/06)
   
• Finally, An End to Nuisance Marketing Phone Calls (4/4/06)   (Attachment)
  
  
  MARCH 2006
   
• 4 Wollongong Students Win Inaugural Australian Vocational Student Prize (29/3/06)
   
• Labor Moves to 'Disallow' Industrial Relations Regulations (28/3/06)
   
• Pay Averaging Undercuts Minimum Wage at Midnight Tonight (26/3/06)
   
• Harmony Day Celebrations in Wollongong (20/3/06)
   
• Wollongong Schools Help Out on Water Saving (20/3/06)
   
• Wollongong Families Face $33,000 Fines (20/3/06)
   
• Federal Labor Leader, Kim Beazley, in Wollongong (3/3/06)
  
  
  FEBRUARY 2006
   
• "Who Cares?" Former Parliamentary Secretary Tells Bird (28/2/06)
   
• Illawarra Labor MPs Slam Visa to Import Apprentices as Betrayal (Joint Statement with Jennie George MP -  27/2/06)
   
• Private Health Holders Cop It Again (26/2/06)
   
• Bird Congratulates Wollongong Uni for 'Punching Above its Weight' - Again (22/2/06)
   
• COAG Backs Bird Call on Logistics Chain (10/2/06)

JANUARY 2006

• Illawarra Should Establish Logistics Chain Coordination (31/01/06)
   
• Illawarra Business Chamber Survey Findings Confirm $55 Million in Wasted IR 'Dog's Breakfast' Advertising (13/1/06)
   
• Wollongong Managers, Engineers and Scientists to Lose Entitlements Under New Laws (12/1/06)    (Attachment)