Author: Terry Redman
WA grains will be headed for even more export markets with Agriculture and Food Minister Terry Redman today announcing a new Centre for Grain Food Innovation.
Speaking at the Grains West Expo today, Mr Redman said a collaboration agreement between the Department of Agriculture and Food, CSIRO and C... (18-Aug)
Author: Terry Redman
Farmers in the Geraldton area today saw first-hand the progress of the genetically modified (GM) canola trial being grown in the region. The trial, located on the Department of Agriculture and Food’s Northern Sandplain Research Annexe, was one of 20 GM canola trials sown across the State in 2009.
T... (14-Aug)
Author: Terry Redman
Member for Stirling Terry Redman has expressed concern over the regional implications of
an Economic Regulation Authority (ERA) report into developer contributions to the Water
Corporation for water infrastructure costs.
“The report recommends land developers should pay a water headworks charge... (29-Jul)
Author: Terry Redman
Health Minister Jim McGinty has agreed to consider an increase in Patient Assisted Travel Scheme (PATS) subsidies after questioning from the Member for Stirling, Terry Redman.
In Parliament last week, Mr Redman introduced a motion calling on the State Government to increase PATS subsidies as a matt... (23-Jul)
Author: Terry Redman
Member for Stirling Terry Redman and Nationals candidate for Albany Sam Harma havehighlighted the lack of certainty surrounding Albany’s future water supplies, and say the StateGovernment is glossing over the growing problems.“When the Premier opened the new water tank in March this year, he indicat... (18-Jul)
Author: Terry Redman
Member for Stirling and Candidate for Blackwood-Stirling Terry Redman hasdescribed the State Government’s decision to spend almost $60,000 of taxpayer’smoney on pre-election research into shopping hours as a pointless waste, and saysthe money would have been better spent on a regional project.“The G... (18-Jul)
Author: Terry Redman
Stirling MLA Terry Redman says the public is entitled to know what has become of the State Government’s ‘dental workforce strategy’ which was to have been finalised in August 2007.
Mr Redman was referring to a ‘workforce plan’ document which the Government claimed was being developed to ensure the ... (14-Jul)
Author: Terry Redman
Stirling MLA Terry Redman took the Health Minister to task in State Parliament
yesterday, over what Mr Redman says is the State Government’s abandonment of
the mobile dental service to Western Australian country schools.
“The mobile dental service to schools at Bridgetown, Greenbushes, ... (11-Jun)
Author: Terry Redman
Stirling MLA Terry Redman said today it was disappointing that biofuels were currently the subject of negative publicity, when they had increasing potential to be a significant boon to regional enterprise and to the environment.
“We are currently seeing a considerable amount of doom and gloom and m... (04-Jun)
Author: Terry Redman
Stirling MLA Terry Redman has welcomed assurances from the Department for Planning and Infrastructure that country services won’t be cut when police across Western Australia cease drivers licence assessments, but says the efficiency of the new system remains to be seen.
From June 16, 2008 the Depar... (03-Jun)
Author: Terry Redman
Stirling MLA Terry Redman says the State Government must come clean on its
intentions to hike up the cost of water to country households, after comments by the
Agriculture Minister indicating major increases were inevitable.
In the Upper House last week, the Minister for Agriculture, repr... (19-May)
Author: Terry Redman
Member for Stirling Terry Redman has described last week’s State Budget as a
Mindarie- to-Margaret River Budget , which he says will do very little to address the
fundamental service needs of Western Australians living outside that coastal strip.
Mr Redman said passing a truck carting wat... (12-May)
Author: Terry Redman
Stirling MLA Terry Redman questioned Police Minister John Kobelke yesterday over an incident in which a young Cranbrook woman waited 45 minutes for police to attend, after she reported that an intruder had broken into her home.
The mother of two was at home with her children when an intrude... (07-May)
Author: Terry Redman
Stirling MLA Terry Redman has raised concerns with the State Government regarding the status of the South Coast’s mobile School Dental Service, in response to news of its impending closure.
Mr Redman said he had been advised by a local dentist that the mobile School Dental Service, servicing school... (28-Apr)
Author: Terry Redman
Stirling MLA Terry Redman has highlighted concerns over a gap in the provision of Home and Community Care (HACC) services at Manjimup and has called for interim funding to resolve the issue.
Mr Redman said that he and The Nationals health spokesman Terry Waldron had made a joint approach to the Sta... (21-Apr)