AN overwhelmed Les Borthwick received his much-needed mobility scooter in Cairns today, after the community generously responded to an appeal launched by Federal MP Warren Entsch. Les, 76, went into Cairns Base Hospital a year ago for a knee replacement but complications have forced him to undergo seven operations. During the most recent operation, a…
$6.5 MILLION will be cut from Cairns Base Hospital’s 2011-12/2012-13 budget as part of the Gillard Government’s attempt to achieve a surplus by ripping $1.6 billion from hospitals around the country. And much-needed rural services in Cape York and the Torres Strait/Northern Peninsula will also suffer, each hospital losing $900,000 worth of funding over the…
“THROWING more money at this is not going to fix the problem.” That was the response of Leichhardt MP Warren Entsch to the news yesterday that Foreign Affairs Minister Bob Carr had announced another $20 million for tuberculosis treatment in PNG. Mr Entsch has today again questioned why the government is not working hand in…
FEDERAL MP for Leichhardt Warren Entsch has welcomed the State Government’s decision to rescind controversial Daintree Power legislation that has left residents ‘off the grid’ for 12 years. The issue is one that Mr Entsch has long advocated for and he has today called on the Federal Government to also step up and ease the…
AS the summer break kicks off, school leavers, job seekers and GAP year students are urged to put their thinking caps on and come up with some ‘green’ projects for the coming year. Federal MP Warren Entsch has today launched the Coalition’s ‘Green Army’ environmental plan in Leichhardt, which will see thousands of young people…
FEDERAL MP Warren Entsch has hailed his 2012 Christmas Card Competition a huge success, after receiving almost 400 entries from students all over the electorate of Leichhardt. “I was blown away by the number of entries thank you so much to all the young people who made the effort to create and send in…