FEDERAL Member for Leichhardt Warren Entsch is encouraging organisations in the Far North to apply for Federal Government funding to help clean-up and rehabilitate the environment. It comes after flooding and severe weather events earlier this year affected a number of local government areas in Leichhardt – Aurukun, Cook, Douglas, Hope Vale, Lockhart River, Mapoon,…
LEICHHARDT MP Warren Entsch has congratulated the Cairns Hockey Association on the installation of their new $400,000 artificial turf, saying it will help the club to attract more national and international events.Mr Entsch, a long-time supporter of the club and patron of the Remote Indigenous Hockey Program’s North Queensland Rubies, attended the official opening celebrations…
**Watch this speech on YouTube** I rise this evening to take the opportunity to highlight that next month is Bowel Cancer Awareness Month. This annual initiative, running through the month of June, aims to raise public awareness of a disease that claims the lives of 77 Australians every week. Bowel cancer is the second most common type…