Entsch welcomes insurance taskforce

FEDERAL Member for Leichhardt Warren Entsch has welcomed the announcement of a Northern Australia Insurance Premiums Taskforce, saying the $2-million Federal Government investment was a light at the end of a very long tunnel. “Getting where we are today has been about going down every avenue to prove that we don’t have access to affordable…

TB again makes headlines in Australia

LEICHHARDT MP Warren Entsch has congratulated Cairns State High School for its measured handling of the TB case within the school community over the last fortnight. It comes as World TB Day events this week have highlighted the need for an urgent global focus on the disease in developing countries, which affects 9 million people…

New support for UMI Arts

FEDERAL Member for Leichhardt Warren Entsch has welcomed news of Australian Government support for an innovative indigenous arts project being run by UMI Arts in Cairns. The Minister for the Arts, Senator George Brandis QC, has today announced funding for initiatives that will benefit Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists throughout Australia. Funding of $242,000…

NBN rolling out in Cairns suburbs

AROUND 2800 premises in Manoora, Whitfield and Edge Hill are a step closer to getting access to the National Broadband Network, with construction on the fibre-to-the-premises network now underway. Telstra has finalised remediation of infrastructure in the area, meaning that in coming weeks, NBN Co subcontractors will be in the streets, laying out fibre to…

Fishing for answers: Opportunities for Expanding the Aquaculture Industry in Northern Australia

The Australian Parliament’s Northern Australia Committee has commenced an inquiry into opportunities for expanding the aquaculture industry in Northern Australia—parts of Western Australia, the Northern Territory and Queensland which lie above the Tropic of Capricorn. The potential for aquaculture was raised in the Government’s pre-policy planning document, the Green Paper on Developing Northern Australia, which…

Data retention needed to fight cyber terrorism

**Watch Warren's speech on YouTube** FEDERAL Member for Leichhardt Warren Entsch has spoken in Parliament to support the Government’s data retention bill. Mr Entsch says the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Amendment (Data Retention) Bill 2014 is a vital measure to help Australia stop online criminals such as paedophiles, major crime groups and terrorists. “We are…