Federal Politics

  • Federal funding puts priority projects first

    Federal funding puts priority projects first

    MORE than $20.4 million in Roads to Recovery funding has been pledged to Ipswich over the next five years. Federal Member for Blair Shayne Neumann…

  • Rosewood school gets welcome funding

    Rosewood school gets welcome funding

    ST BRIGID’S Rosewood school has received $208,000 government funding for its outside school hours care service. Federal Member for Blair Shayne Neumann said the Federal…

  • Cash for Purga timber bridge replacement

    Cash for Purga timber bridge replacement

    THE old timber bridge at Purga School Road is soon to be replaced. In a $7.97 million government funded project, a two-lane road bridge and…

  • Hymba Yumba lobbies for backing to expand

    Hymba Yumba lobbies for backing to expand

    SCHOOL bosses at independent First Nations school Hymba Yumba say it has become so successful it must expand. The Springfield school wants to grow its…

  • Grants to help homeless Veterans

    Grants to help homeless Veterans

    GRANT funding is now available for emergency housing and specialist services for homeless Veterans and their families. The $30 million program Veterans’ Acute Housing Program…

  • Hockey Grounds score top upgrade

    Hockey Grounds score top upgrade

    THE Government has delivered on an election pledge to provide the Ipswich Hockey Grounds with $500,000 in trailblazing upgrades. Federal Member for Blair Shayne Neumann…

  • Rumours Howard about to abandon tilt for Blair

    Rumours Howard about to abandon tilt for Blair

    RUGBY League great Mal Meninga’s tilt at a career in Canberra lasted only seconds and made him a punchline for the rest of his life.…

  • Highway spend – so good they announced it twice

    Highway spend – so good they announced it twice

    FEDERAL Labor was in town last week touting once again the cash splash for Warrego Highway improvements. The budget funding, declared two weeks ago, will…

  • Canberra rallies around under-siege Neumann

    Canberra rallies around under-siege Neumann

    ACT of supreme betrayal, a sincere quest for gender equality in the Canberra caucus, or political suicide? Through whichever lens it is viewed, Labor sources…

  • Scarr says bulk bill claim ‘spin’

    Scarr says bulk bill claim ‘spin’

    QUEENSLAND LNP Senator Paul Scarr says claims of an uptick in the availability of bulk billing are nothing but spin. Senator Scarr responded after Local…

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