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Bob McMullan meeting with Andrew Hewitt and Tim Costello, co-chairs of the Make Poverty History campaign, to discuss MPH's 'Face Up Against Poverty' initiative.

Member for Fraser Bob McMullan today welcomed the establishment of a Headspace youth mental health centre in Canberra.

“Young people in the Canberra and surrounding regions at risk of mental health and drug and alcohol problems will benefit from the establishment of a new Headspace Youth Services Centre in the ACT” said Mr McMullan.

Federal Labor welcomes reports of a partnership between Australia and Indonesia to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, as part of the Global Initiative on Forests and Climate which was announced in March 2007.

Tackling this challenge is a useful and cost effective way to reduce the 20-25 per cent contribution of deforestation and other land use changes to global emissions.

The Government should build on this weekend’s positive announcement by ratifying the Kyoto Protocol and arguing for avoided deforestation to be included in global climate change commitments beyond 2012.

On 30 November 2005, an impressive cross-section of Australians gathered on the lawns in front of Parliament House to call for leniency for convicted drug smuggler Van Nguyen, not because any of us there sympathised with his crime but because we were and remain genuinely opposed to the death sentence. It was particularly moving to hear the speech of Brian Deegan, whose son died in the Sari Club blast. He repeated his earlier eloquent opposition to the death penalty, including for Amrozi, who has been convicted for his involvement in that terrible massacre. It is by that standard that those who claim to be opposed to the death penalty should be judged.

According to a report from the ACT Consumer Law Centre due to be released to day, house repossessions in the ACT increased dramatically in 2005 and the trend for 2006 is the same, Member for Fraser Bob McMullan said today.

Bob McMullan, Member for Fraser, has welcomed the support for his campaign for setting specific goals to overcome indigenous inequality reflected in the reports launched last week by the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Mr Tom Calma.

Dave Peebles' Progressive Essay discusses how the ALP must market itself better in order to win the next federal election.