Coalition commits $42 million to tropical medicine at JCU

A COALITION Government will invest $42 million to support the expansion of James Cook University’s (JCU) renowned Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine (AITHM).  Today’s announcement is a win for the Far North, with Member for Leichhardt Warren Entsch saying it “further underlines the Coalition’s determination to support the development of Northern Australia”.  “I’m…

Entsch calls on Labor to stop the spin

LEICHHARDT MP Warren Entsch has hit out at Deputy Prime Minister Anthony Albanese for his “outrageous” and “completely untrue” claims surrounding the Coalition’s National Broadband Network policy. “Albanese was in Bundaberg yesterday and pulled the same stunt down there,” Mr Entsch said. “This is typical of the slash and cut fear campaign that Labor are…