NEW funding for primary health care services in Mossman will help keep Indigenous children healthy and ready to learn when they start school, and ensure they are properly immunised. Leichhardt MP Warren Entsch today announced that Queensland Health Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Service (Community Health Mossman) will receive $74,328 as part of new…
ONLINE small businesses in the Far North have been given a boost with the Turnbull-Joyce Government delivering on a 2016-17 Budget measure to collect the Goods and Services Tax (GST) on items purchased online from overseas, Leichhardt MP Warren Entsch says. “During the recent Parliamentary sittings, the Government introduced legislation to level the playing field…
The Australian Government has announced the establishment Board of the $75 million CRC for Developing Northern Australia, which will get to work on attracting research projects that benefit the north. The CRC, which will have its headquarters in Townsville as part of the Townsville City Deal, will be chaired by Cairns business woman Sheriden Morris.…
LEICHHARDT MP Warren Entsch has slammed news that the submission of the draft Environmental Impact Statement on the Cairns Shipping Development has been delayed yet again. “This is just ridiculous,” he said today. “The EIS was first commissioned in 2012, down-graded in 2015, and here we are in 2017 after squandering more than $8 million…
JAMES Cook University will bring the fun and discovery of National Science Week to Cairns after receiving $9114 from the Australian Government to deliver ‘National Science Week at the Tanks: Science in the Tropics Rocks!’ Leichhardt MP Warren Entsch has congratulated JCU for its efforts to inspire people about science, technology and innovation during 2017’s…
Parliament’s Northern Australia Committee will hold the first public hearing for its inquiry into Opportunities and Methods for Stimulating the Tourism Industry in Northern Australia on Friday, 17 February 2017 in Parliament House, Canberra. Following the Australian Government’s 2015 White Paper on developing Northern Australia, the Government announced in February 2016 the Northern Australia Tourism…
– Almost $1 million allocated to upgrade the Northern Peninsula airstrip under Round 4 of the Australian Government’s $33.7 million Remote Airstrip Upgrade Programme A vital aerodrome servicing remote communities in far north Queensland will receive almost $1 million in Federal funding for important upgrade works. Federal Minister for Infrastructure and Transport Darren Chester said…
LEICHHARDT MP Warren Entsch has welcomed the much-anticipated report into lending practices by the major banks which was released today by the Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman, Kate Carnell AO. The report makes 15 recommendations, four of which are for Government and the remaining 11 directed at the banking industry itself. “Call it…
Growing defence industry Jobs in Cairns through the Turnbull Government's commitment to sustain up to 21 new Pacific Patrol Boats in the city will be the focus of engagement workshops to be held by shipbuilder Austal on Thursday. Ahead of the visit, Minister for Defence Industry, the Hon Christopher Pyne MP welcomed Austal's strong engagement…
FEDERAL Member for Leichhardt Warren Entsch has welcomed moves by nbn Co. to provide even more accurate and timely information about the national broadband rollout. nbn Co. has released the first phase of a new ‘check your address’ web function that provides greater clarity about when an nbn service will be available at a consumer’s…