May 12, 2021
Minister for the Environment Sussan Ley, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg, Minister for Superannuation Jane Hume, Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack, Minister for Employment Michaelia Cash and Minister for Home Affairs Karen Andrews at the Cabinet Womens Task Force Meeting at Parliament House in Canberra. Source: AAP Image/Mick Tsikas.
The 2021 budget is a huge improvement for women when compared to last year’s offering. Faced with protests against sexual violence in Australia, allegations of parliamentary sexual assault, and waning popularity among female voters, the Morrison government has moved to increase funding for domestic violence prevention, help women save for retirement, and improve access to childcare.
‘Australians aren’t worried about elections’: McCormack touts pathway to recovery 10/05/2021|6min
Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack says the federal government is not looking at an election as its “total focus” is on securing Australia’s recovery.
“This infrastructure budget secures that recovery through coronavirus, we’re certainly not out of the woods yet,” he said.
“Australians aren’t worried about elections, they’re not even talking about that at their BBQs and around their dinner tables and around the water cooler, they are talking about jobs, they are talking about their future.”
The federal government is expected to unveil a $10 billion commitment to fast track infrastructure projects across Australia.
No textbook on how to solve the pandemic: McCormack 10/05/2021|4min
Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack says he is not putting a timeline on when international travel may resume – flagging it is dependent on the medical advice.
“There’s no textbook that you can pull down from the shelf, open it up and say ‘well this is how we address this particular issue or that’,” he said.
“We’ve kept Australia as COVID free as we can, that’s why we are the envy of the world, that’s why tens of thousands of people got out to a sporting event on the weekend, went to their favourite restaurant, lived life as normally as they could be.”
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Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack has slammed animal rights activists who protested out the front of Rockhampton’s Beef Australia event and placed ads around town condemning the event.
Seven protesters gathered at the gate holding up anti-beef signs on Thursday May 6.
Mr McCormack told a press conference on the same day that the ‘activists’ should visit a friendly pub in Rockhampton and have a steak.
“That’s my reaction to that,” he said.
“I mean, [Beef Week] is creating wealth opportunities for Central and North Queensland.
“This has been such a boom.
“The farmers who produce the cattle, the best cattle in the world. the animal welfare for them is front and centre.
Outlook Cafe owner Bill Fawzi is still waiting to discover the impact that beautifying Auckland Hill will have on his popular cafe.
On Tuesday, Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack and Federal Minister for Gladstone Ken OâDowd announced $5 million toward beautifying Auckland Hill and linking the area with the East Shores waterfront precinct.
As a condition of the funding, Gladstone Ports Corporation will match the $5 million in funding for the project, as Gladstone Regional Council is transferring custodianship of the land to the port. The Outlook cafe on Auckland Hill. The area is to undergo beautification work to link it with the East Shores waterfront precinct. Picture: Luka Kauzlaric