Boothby e-newsletter - Budget 2012

May 11, 2012

Inside this edition:

• Coalition Budget Reply 2012: Restoring Hope, Reward and Opportunity 
• Reviving Foreign Language study in Boothby schools 
• Flinders Centre for Innovation in Cancer - A long road, but worth it 
• Remembering our veterans 
• Community Connections
• Community Feedback 
• Out and about in Boothby

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Boothby e-newsletter - April 2012

April 20, 2012

Inside this edition:

• Lest we forget
• Brighton Town Hall Community Forum
• Tonsley Park Redevelopment Master Plan released
• Flinders Hospital waiting times
• Continued mismanagement of GP Super Clinics
• Community feedback
• Representing your interests
• Out and about in Boothby

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Brighton Town Hall Community Forum

April 19, 2012

Proposed council plans for the original Brighton Town Hall have been a source of great concern for many residents in Brighton and the surrounding areas for the last couple of weeks.

Last night a community forum was held in the Brighton Tennis clubrooms to facilitate discussion between the City of Holdfast Bay Council and community members concerned about the proposed revocation of the community land status and sale of the site. ... Read more »

Lest we forget

April 18, 2012

ANZAC Day is fast approaching and the community is gearing up for services around Boothby. I will be attending two local events, the Dawn Service at Blackwood and a breakfast at Colonel Light Gardens. I hope to see many of you there, or else I encourage you to attend one of the other local services.

Some of you may have heard about the recent report commissioned by the Gillard Labor Government to investigate what the Centenary of ANZAC means to Australians and how it will affect multicultural Australia. It was disappointing to see this money wasted when most Australians, myself included, are fully supportive of our veterans and what this day means.

The welfare of our veterans is also very important to me, and there is no better day than ANZAC Day to recognise this, and reiterate the Coalition’s pledge to commit to the fair indexation of DFRB and DFRDB military superannuation pensions.

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ABC 891 with Ian Henschke

April 18, 2012

There is a proposal currently before Holdfast Bay Council to revoke the community land status of the former Brighton Town Hall.

Come along to my Community Forum tonight to have your say about what you think should happen to the site.

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