10 Major Policy Issues for Families

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Written and Authorized by Chris Baker, Chris Baker Shop 4, 999 Lower North East Road, Highbury SA 5089
Copyright © 2007 All rights reserved FAMILY FIRST Party

Looking after the Environment
and our Future

The FAMILY FIRST Party supports caring for and conserving our natural environment, as well as securing vital resources for our future sustainably.  Caring for our environment is a key responsibility and we must do all we can to protect it.

2009

Native Vegetation (Miscellaneous) Amendment Bill (Clearing, Offsets, Bushfire Prevention) - February 4th, 2009
Fairness between SA Water users — Matter of Interest — February 4th, 2009

Willunga Basin Protection Bill — February 18th, 2009

Statutes Amendment (Energy Efficiency Shortfalls) Bill — April 11th, 2009

 

2008

WATER HARVESTING LEGISLATIVE PACKAGE—September —November, 2008

· New Developments must include Stormwater harvesting: Intro / Summing Up
(Development (Water Harvesting) Amendment Bill)

· Funding for Councils from Gov’t land releases : Intro / Summing Up
(Local Government (Stormwater Harvesting) Amendment Bill)

· NRM tracking of projects : Intro / Summing Up
(Natural Resources Management (Water Harvesting) Amendment Bill)

FAMILY FIRST’s battle to Save Murray Family Farms’ Vines, Fruit Trees —Oct 30 & 31, 2008
Amendment to National Package to ensure Permanent Plantings are considered a ‘Critical Human Need’ - CHN definition broad enough
Initial Speech — Debate: For Am’dt & When Amd’t Defeated

Environment Protection (Miscellaneous) Amendment Bill (Container Deposit reforms) - April 30, 2008
Public Transport Motion (Rail Network Expansion) — April 30, 2008 (FAMILY FIRST Motion)
Statutes Amendment (Ethical Superannuation—State Superannuation) Bill — May 7th, 2008
Public Transport Motion (Rail Network Expansion) - Summing Up Speech — June 4th, 2008 (FAMILY FIRST Motion)
Angaston Railway Station — June 4th, 2008
National Gas (South Australia) Bill — June 17th, 2008
The Hon Andrew Evans MLC— Retirement (Valedictory Speech)— July 3rd, 2008 — includes farewells from other Members of Legislative Council
Appropriation Bill — Addressing the 2008/2009 State Budget —  July 24th, 2008
Robert Brokenshire’s Maiden Speech (addressing Appropriation — the 2008/2009 State Budget) — July 29th, 2008
Water Supply — Matter of Interest — September 10th, 2008
Address in Reply to Governor’s Address — September 11th, 2008

Water (Commonwealth Powers) Amendment Bill (River Murray Handover of Powers to the Commonwealth) - October 28th, 2008

Plastic Shopping Bags Ban—13.11.08—Speech in Parliament on Government move to ban plastic bags

Development (Planning and Development Review) Amendment Bill — Thursday November 27th, 2008

Sugarloaf Pipeline—Urgency Debate—November 26th, 2008—Unprecedented move Abandoning Question Time to urgently debate Victoria’s move to build the Sugarloaf Pipeline

 

2007
Desert Eco Systems (Matter of Interest), 12.09.07
Environment Protection (Site Contamination) Amendment Bill, 31.07.07
Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme - Matter of Interest, 06.06.07
Irrigation Allocations - Matter of Interest, 24.10.07
Local Government (Stormwater Management) Amendment Bill, 22.02.07
Marine Parks Bill, 13.09.07
Marine Parks Bill—Amendment to protect recreational fishing—16.10.07
Natural Resources Management (Water Resources and Other Matters) Amendment Bill, 20.06.07

2006
Groundwater Border Agreement
 Murray-Darling Basin (Amending Amendment) Bill
Natural Resources Management _Transfer of Water Licences_ .
River Torrens Linear Park Bill
Upper South East Dryland Salinity and Flood Management (Extention of Period) Bill Hon Andrew Evans
Upper South East (NRC) Bill
United Nations Population Report
Water Efficiency Labelling Bill Hon Andrew Evans

2004
GM Crops
Beechwood Garden

2003
Lochiel Park
Nuclear Waste Storage (Prohibition) (Referendum) Amendment Bill — Speech to Amendment moved by Liberal Opposition (The Hon J Stefani MLC) - March 19th, 2003
Statues of Amendments (Nuclear Waste) Bill — July 15th, 2003
National Parks and Wildlife (Innamincka Regional Reserve) Amendment Bill — December 3rd, 2003
Murray River Bill
Statues of Amendments Nuclear Bill

2002
Murray River Fishery — August 28th, 2002
Nuclear Waste Storage Facility (Prohibition) (Referendum) Amendment Bill — October 24th, 2002
Statutes Amendment (Environment Protection) Bill  Speech — November 14th, 2002
Fisheries

2009

Urban Growth Boundary (and Supplementary Question)— Tuesday February 3rd, 2009

Biocompostable Containers — February 4th, 2009

Cheltenham Park (Supplementary Question) - Thursday 5 February 2009

Development Laws (Bushfire Prevention)— Tuesday, 17 February 2009

Murray River Buyback Scheme (and Supplementary Question)— Wednesday 18 February 2009

Desalination Plant - March 3rd, 2009

Waste Collection — March 3rd, 2009 (Supplementary)

 

2008
Goulburn Valley Water 26.02.08
Tourism Advertising 26.02.08
Extending Gawler Railway Line to the Barossa Valley — May 7th, 2008 — Question on Notice
Extending Tonsley Railway Line — May 7th, 2008 — Question on Notice
Rebuilding Northfield Railway Line — May 7th, 2008 — Question on Notice
Regional Passenger Rail Services — May 7th, 2008 — Question on Notice
Restoring Rail to Mt Barker — May 7th, 2008 — Question on Notice
Southern Expressway Duplication — May 7th, 2008 — Question on Notice
Tramline Ticket Validations — May 7th, 2008 — Question on Notice
Willunga Railway Line Corridor — May 7th, 2008 — Question on Notice
Rail Revitalisation — June 17th, 2008
Barossa Railway — June 19th, 2008
Wind Farms — September 10th, 2008 (including Supplementary Question)

Government Advertising — Sept. 26th, 2008
Criticism of Government spin—River Murray– Wasted taxpayer money

Southern Suburbs Development—Tuesday 28 October 2008

Tram Overcrowding — 12.11.08—Lost revenue from passengers not validating tickets

Murray River, Lower Lakes  - 2.12.08
Evaporation Losses—Trigger Points for Salt Water into the Lower Lakes

 

2007
Stamp Duty, 29.03.07 (Concession for Zero Carbon homes)
Water Supply, 02.05.07
Rainwater Tanks, 05.06.07
Hazardous Household Waste, 06.06.07
Radiation Protection and Control Act, 07.06.07
Rainwater Tanks, 12.09.07
Black-flanked Rock Wallabies, October 17th, 2007 (answered May 8th, 2008)
Native Fish, 24.10.07
Water Infrastructure, 20.11.07

2006
Jetties, Rapid Bay 09.05.06

2004
Energy Cooperative 11.10.04
State Population 24.05.04

2002
Lochiel Park 14.05.02 (answered 17.07.02)
Lochiel Park 08.07.02 (unanswered)
Murray River 17.10.02 (answered 20.02.03)
European Carp 24.10.02 (answered in chamber)

Recent Media and other activity on this issue:

Court challenge on River Murray
Victor Harbor Times - ‎Mar 10, 2009‎
Family First MLC Robert Brokenshire of Mount Compass, has hit out at the announcement. Mr Brokenshire says he’s “livid”, saying the government blew it at COAG and now its polling is confirming that failure, “they are desperate”.  “I said last October at the time of the River Murray handover that it was flawed, and for that reason Family First was the only party that tried to amend that Bill.  “We challenged the Premier’s claim that it was a one in a 100 year achievement, and the news of a constitutional challenge – and the Springborg musings in Queensland that if elected he may renege on the handover deal – shows what a shemozzle that handover was,” Mr Brokenshire said.

Brokenshire livid about Government inaction on water trading (March 5th, 2009)

Spin on Lower Lakes pipe opening today (February 18th)

Victorian cap on Xenophon $1bn package is not on! (February 17th)

30 gigalitres of water for Lower Lakes at $9m would be a drop in the $42bn stimulus bucket (February 6th);

Ramsey, Brokenshire on the same song sheet on industrial water use (February 6th);

FAMILY FIRST sceptical on Cheltenham wetlands water saving potential (February 5th);