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ACT Federal Labor representatives today attended the ACT declaration of the polls as members of the newly elected Labor Government.

The Labor Government has an ambitious agenda to bring about positive change for all Australians, and all three expressed excitement at being a part of the new Labor Government as ACT representatives.

After 11 years of inactivity, 5 weeks before the election, and one week after Federal Labor’s announcement, the Howard Government is finally coming on board to realise the importance of assisting people with disabilities in developing countries.

Not to be churlish, while the decision is 11 years late, it is nevertheless more than welcome.

It now guarantees that whoever is elected, the long neglected issues facing the poorest of the poor in developing countries - people with disabilities - will move to the centre of Australia’s aid program as they should have more than a decade ago.

Federal Member for Fraser, Bob McMullan, today said that his community meeting with Gungahlin residents earlier this week had focused largely on the rate of development in Gungahlin and the toll that increases in the cost of living are having, particularly on retirees and others on low incomes.

Mr McMullan renewed his call for government departments to be relocated outside the Civic precinct in order to ease the strain on traffic and other infrastructure and to promote growth in other city centres.

Alexander Downer must come clean on the dirty deal he struck during his visit to Nauru this week.

The Howard Government has historically been very secretive about the money it provides to Nauru and which it disguises as aid funding.

Member for Fraser Bob McMullan today expressed strong concern that the Government’s Simplified Superannuation reforms to public superannuation schemes will leave members of the Military Superannuation and Benefits Scheme (MSBS) significantly worse off.

Australians will be extremely disappointed. Australians are very generous with their own money to fight global poverty and they’ll be extremely disappointed to hear that the money they thought the Government was using for that is actually being used to fund the Government’s tricky political exercises.

The Member for Fraser, Bob McMullan, today expressed his disappointment with the Howard Government’s Budget dental announcements.

After axing Labor’s Commonwealth Dental Health Program in 1996, and eleven years of playing the blame game and denying that dental care was their responsibility, the Howard Government executed a spectacular backflip on Budget night and finally directed some funding towards dental care.

As Member for Fraser I extend my deepest sympathies to the family, friends and colleagues of ACT Chief Police Officer Audrey Fagan.

In December 2006, Bob McMullan addressed a rally calling for David Hicks to be returned to Australia.

Debate on the massive changes proposed for industrial relations in Australia was this morning gagged in the House of Representatives, denying many members a say on the legislation.

Apprentices training in the traditional trades have dropped by a massive 36 per cent in Fraser, federal Member for Fraser Bob McMullan said today

Peter Costello and Nick Minchin should give Australian taxpayers a guarantee that they are not spending the Telstra special dividend to fund their election commitments.