Topics: Visit to Queensland; Labor’s policy agenda; industrial relations; insecure work; Labor’s Secure Australian Jobs Plan; Cross River Rail; Government’s rorts; vaccine rollout.

Federal Labor congratulates Queensland on its bid to host the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games being named as the International Olympic Committee’s preferred candidate.

Tens of thousands of Queensland tourism jobs remain at risk because the Morrison Government refuses to support them beyond the end of March.

Topics: Visit to Queensland; manufacturing; climate change; Labor’s policy agenda; industrial relations; insecure work; a Future Made in Australia; electric vehicles; net zero by 2050; Labor’s Secure Australian Jobs Plan.

Topics covered include: Visit to Queensland, Federal Government responsibility for quarantine, upcoming industrial relations announcement, Better Off Overall Test, state borders, alternatives to hotel quarantine, Kate Jones, support for the tourism industry, Australian commanders gifted Swiss watches, net zero emissions by 2050, Nationals MPs, Labor leadership, New Acland mine.

A number of locals are being recognised by the community on Australia Day as the Southside’s unsung volunteer heroes, for their outstanding work to make our community a better place.

Terri Butler MP is now taking expressions of interest for Stronger Communities grants, which support local not-for-profits with minor capital projects.

After years of lobbying, petitioning and fighting, our community has today had a win in relation to an asbestos hazard and wasted community resource -- the old Red Cross Hall at Greenslopes. 

University students, teachers and staff in the Griffith electorate are feeling the effects of the Morrison Government’s failure to support Australian universities.

Terri Butler MP was honoured to be able to acknowledge Griffith’s unsung local heroes at the 21^st annual Griffith Australia Day Awards ceremony on Sunday.