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Vietnamese Australians
Blaxland is one of the most culturally diverse places in Australia. It is home to people from more than 130 different countries. More Vietnamese Australians live here than anywhere else in the country-more than 17,000, many in Cabramatta and Bankstown-infusing the community... read more...
Cabramatta
Cabramatta is facing another challenge in the coming year. The planned southern Sydney freight line will run right through the middle of the town. It is a very important piece of infrastructure for Sydney and the country. It will help get freight off Sydney's roads, but it... read more...
Guarantee Scheme for Large Deposits and Wholesale Funding Appropriation Bill 2008: Second Reading
We are very keen to see the back of it and we are keen for the opposition's support so that the working people of Australia know that when they enter their workplace they are entitled to fair wages and conditions that will not be stripped away because of laws that are passed... read more...
Beyond Kokoda
"History students from six local high schools; Bankstown Grammar Birrong Girls High School Chester Hill High School La Salle College Malek Fahd Islamic School St Euphemia College were joined by mums and dads, seniors and veterans at yesterday's event," Mr Clare... read more...
Adjournment: Blaxland Electorate: Remembrance Day
He never stops. The other day when I spoke to him he was very upset. The doctor had told him he had to get a pacemaker. He told me: ‘I don't have time for an operation. I've got too much to do.' What he was doing was organising the dedication of a monument to the 7th... read more...
Jason Clare MP opens new hearing centre
‘This issue was first raised with me by Narelle Buckingham at my first street meeting in Yagoona in June last year. It was also raised again with Minister Joe Ludwig by Hilda and Charlie Garwood of Greenacre when we held a public meeting with him in April this year.... read more...
Kokoda Trail
This was our darkest hour, the time of our greatest peril and our greatest generation. The first among them were men who stood tall in the mountains of the Owen Stanley Range. Our official war history, penned by Colonel F. Kingsley Norris, contains a stirring description of... read more...
National Rental Affordability Scheme Bill 2008; National Rental Affordability Scheme (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2008: Second Reading
Governments have been taking unprecedented actions to arrest the crisis. The global financial crisis has dominated the nightly news. It makes for bleak watching, with boards of prices in the red, downhill graphs that represent quantifiable losses, stockbrokers shouting into... read more...
Make Poverty History
The group of eight students accompanied by teachers Mr Greg Trainor and Ms Azadeh Shafi-Beigli visited Parliament as part of a national campaign to make poverty history around the world. In Parliament, Mr Clare spoke about the many people he has the privilege to represent... read more...
Economy
We did not create this problem-Australia did not create this problem; the problem started in the United States-but we are better prepared than most countries in the world to cope with it, due in part to a budget that we put together in May and due to the work of previous... read more...
