Media Releases

Below is a chronological record of selected media releases issued by FAMILY FIRST:

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FAMILY FIRST PARTY (SOUTH AUSTRALIA)

2009

· Parliament narrowly backs human cloning, animal-human hybrids (March 26th, 2009) [Traditional Family Values]

· Taxi Select Committee Formed (March 25th, 2009)

· Action needed on Adult Video / DVD Placement in Stores to Protect Children (March 17th, 2009) [Traditional Family Values]

· 20,000 on Housing SA waiting list, yet 1,872 homes unoccupied (March 17th, 2009) [Justice for the Poor]

· Good Friday Gambling — “It’s Tabcorp that’s out of touch” (March 17th, 2009) [Anti-gambling]

· Brokenshire livid about Government inaction on water trading (March 5th, 2009) [Environment & Water]

· This Time, Upper House can pass an ICAC Bill (Independent Commission against Corruption) (March 4th, 2009) [Preventing Crime]

· Teacher assaults skyrocketing (February 23rd) [Education];

· Family First moves to regulate Government advertising (February 18th)

· Spin on Lower Lakes pipe opening today (February 18th) [Environment & Water]

· Victorian cap on Xenophon $1bn package is not on! (February 17th) [Environment & Water]

· 30 gigalitres of water for Lower Lakes at $9m would be a drop in the $42bn stimulus bucket (February 6th) [Environment & Water];

· Ramsey, Brokenshire on the same song sheet on industrial water use (February 6th) [Environment & Water];

· FAMILY FIRST sceptical on Cheltenham wetlands water saving potential (February 5th) [Environment & Water];

· State Government not doing enough to help industry save water (February 2nd) [Environment & Water];

· Special development protection needed in the Willunga Basin (January 29th) [Environment & Water];

· FAMILY FIRST calls for national agriculture stimulus package (January 29th);

· FAMILY FIRST celebrates win against West Richmond pokies plan (January 23rd);

· Native Vegetation Act may be exposing vegetation and lives to bushfire risks (January 20th) [Environment & Water];

· FAMILY FIRST calls for police-in-schools program roll out—skyrocketing violence merits police presence (January 20th);

· Public meeting needed at Goolwa re Lower Lakes’ future (January 13th) [Environment & Water]

· FAMILY FIRST calls for shark-free swimming enclosures for Semaphore, Glenelg, Christies (January 2009) [Marriage & Family];

2008

· At home mums deserve paid maternity leave too (December 28th) [Marriage & Family]

· State Government has missed its big chance, now its credit crunched (December 18th)

· 2,173 disabled people in South Australia are not getting help (December 3rd) [Justice for the Poor];

· Kids’ chemo cover-up by Government and Health Department (December 3rd) [Health];

· FAMILY FIRST calls for an Education Ombudsman (November 28th) [Education];

· Country Health Guarantee Bill passes (November 27th) [Health];

· FAMILY FIRST calls upon Premier to support Senate pipe blockage (Sugarloaf Pipeline in Melbourne) ; and FAMILY FIRST leads crossbench fight over Melbourne Pipeline (both November 26th);

· Government sends wrong drug message to schoolies (November 18th)

· Gambling rehabilitation providers left in limbo (November 14th) [Anti-gambling]

· FAMILY FIRST Body Piercing Bill passes the Legislative Council (November 13th)

· New Riverland Coalition welcomed (November 5th, 2008)

· FAMILY FIRST laments the ALP putting their “family” before growers (October 31st, 2008) [Environment & Water]

· Loan Scheme for Irrigators Needed  - Rann needs to remember his forgotten low-interest loans for temporary water (October 28th, 2008)

· Permanent Plantings are “critical human needs” - FAMILY FIRST move on Murray handover package (October 27th, 2008) [Environment & Water]

· Global economic freefall needs car tariff freeze (October 19th, 2008)

· FAMILY FIRST to create Education Ombudsman (October 17th, 2008) [Education];

· Murray irrigator jigsaw just started, not finished Mike! (Monday September 22nd, 2008) [Environment & Water]

· Half Million Dollar Ad about Saving the Government, not the Murray (Thursday September 11th, 2008) [Environment & Water]

· Has the Rann Government run out of puff? - Sitting Hours in freefall (Wednesday September 10th, 2008)

· Declare State of Emergency for River Murray (Wednesday September 3rd, 2008) [Environment & Water]

· Opening Goolwa Barrages a Done Deal? (Thursday August 28th, 2008) [Environment & Water]

· 51% drop in rural incomes: Action needed for Rural Families (Wednesday August 27th, 2008) [Supporting Families]

· “We can’t keep having Code Whites until 2016” - Hospital bed shortages (Wednesday August 20th, 2008) [Health]

· Colonoscopy Equipment, Radiotherapy Dosage & Waiting on a Trolley bungles in the Health system (Friday August 15th, 2008) [Health]

· Dollar a Day Public Transport concession needed for pensioners and self-funded retirees [Environment & Water]— (August 7th, 2008)

· Maywald fails to tell Goolwa public meeting Wellington Weir going ahead (Tuesday August 5th, 2008) [Environment & Water]

· Bob Day endorsed as FAMILY FIRST candidate for Mayo by-election (Sunday August 3rd, 2008)

· Flood Rudd and Rann with support for the Lower Lakes (Friday August 1st, 2008) [Environment & Water]

· FAMILY FIRST Raises Rann’s Country Health Guarantee to Law (Thursday July 31st, 2008) [Health]

· FAMILY FIRST’s 15 Point Plan for Water Security (Monday July 28th, 2008) [Environment & Water]

· People before Power if they want my support: Brokenshire (Thursday July 24th, 2008) [Marriage & Family]