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Shortlist announced: Premier’s Award for an Unpublished Manuscript
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- Thursday, 16 May 2013
Minister for the Arts Heidi Victoria has today announced the three shortlisted works that will vie for the $15,000 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript.
Coalition and Victorian Rugby Union join to support Indigenous employment participation
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- Thursday, 16 May 2013
A new program that harnesses Victorian rugby to develop employment opportunities for young Aboriginal people across the State was launched today by Minister for Employment and Trade Louise Asher.
Constitution wording confirms fears
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- Thursday, 16 May 2013
Fears that Victorian councils could be worse off under Constitutional recognition of local government have been confirmed today with the Gillard Government releasing proposed wording changes to the Australian Constitution.
VicForests Resource Outlook
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- Thursday, 16 May 2013
VicForests has today released the 2013 Resource Outlook for timber resources in Victoria’s state forests.
Federal Budget papers confirm Canberra short-changed Victorian hospitals and patients
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- Wednesday, 15 May 2013
The Commonwealth Budget papers confirm that the Federal Government is stripping $368 million in promised health funding from Victorian health services over the next three years, Minister for Health David Davis said today.
“I was bitterly disappointed to scour through the Commonwealth Budget documents last night and find ‘no ink’ in the spot where Victoria’s health funding should have been,” Mr Davis said.
The lost funding to Victorian health services through these Commonwealth cuts will be as follows:
| Budget Cut by the Commonwealth $'000s | |
| 2013/14 | -$ 99,540 |
| 2014/15 | -$ 121,630 |
| 2015/16 | -$ 147,040 |
| Total | -$ 368,210 |
“This missing money is sorely needed by Victoria’s hospitals to meet community demand for elective surgery and emergency department treatment,” Mr Davis said.
“Despite the record state investment Victorian hospitals will still have less funding from the Commonwealth than they were promised last year.
“The promised funding has been stripped away through a dodgy population fiddle and should have been reinstated in this Commonwealth Budget.
“The Senate inquiry found that “the Commonwealth pursued politically-motivated funding cuts to improve its financial position at the expense of public hospital users,” Mr Davis said.
Mr Davis said over the past two months Canberra had begrudgingly returned $107 million it had taken from Victorian hospitals and patients, but the Federal Budget papers show the balance of the money is not forthcoming.
“The Federal Government restored the previous $107 million as a result of sustained pressure from Victorian hospitals and communities,” Mr Davis said.
“I can assure Prime Minister Gillard and her Health Minister Tanya Plibersek that they will again have a fight on their hands.
“The Coalition Government will stand up for Victoria, and we will not be silenced until the Victorian community receives the health funding it was promised, and is entitled to,” Mr Davis said.
Premier announces two key Victorian Government international appointments
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- Wednesday, 15 May 2013
Premier Denis Napthine has announced two key international appointments that will strengthen Victorian investment ties, support local exporters and raise the state’s global profile.
Environmental ‘blueprints’ help set natural resource priorities for Victoria
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- Wednesday, 15 May 2013
Getting more Victorian kids under cover
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- Wednesday, 15 May 2013
$3 million for Eastwood Primary School
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- Wednesday, 15 May 2013
Eastwood Primary School will receive $3 million for new infrastructure under a State Budget commitment announced by the Victorian Coalition Government today.
Scholarships for Aboriginal early years educators in Shepparton
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- Wednesday, 15 May 2013
