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Youth Allowance
24 February 2010
Ms MARINO (Forrest) (4.49 pm)—I am very pleased to speak on this matter of public importance, because I am one of those regional members who has repeatedly made representations to the minister directly and here in this House on behalf of students in my electorate. One question the minister and the other members who have spoken here today has failed to answer is: where will students who have to use that 30 hours of work a week to qualify for youth allowance actually get a job?
Ovarian Cancer Awareness Day
24 February 2010
Ms MARINO (Forrest) (9.30 am)—Today is Ovarian Cancer Awareness Day. Over one year, ovarian cancer can affect the lives of 1,500 women. That is a considerable issue, when 92 women have died of ovarian cancer in Western Australia. Of the number of women who are diagnosed, 75 per cent will struggle to live beyond five years of their diagnoses.
Country Women's Association Dunsborough Branch
11 February 2010
Ms MARINO (Forrest) (9.47 am)—On 23 October last year I attended the 60th birthday of the Country Women’s Association Dunsborough branch. As you would expect, CWA ladies came from near and far to celebrate this wonderful milestone and the success of the Dunsborough branch, formerly known as the Yallingup branch.
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Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Bill 2010
8 February 2010
Ms MARINO (Forrest) (6.14 pm)—I rise to oppose the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Bill 2010 and cognate bills. As I said the first time I spoke on these bills, this is seriously flawed legislation that will cost Australian jobs. It will cost investment and will compromise our historic, internationally competitive marketing advantage underpinned by cheap energy.
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Private Health Insurance Incentives Bill 2009
3 February 2010
Ms MARINO (Forrest) (11.50 am)—I rise to oppose the Fairer Private Health Insurance Incentives Bill 2009 [No. 2] and cognate bills that give effect to the measures announced in the 2009-10 budget. These measures provide for means testing of the private health insurance rebate and progressively increase the Medicare levy surcharge for people in my electorate without hospital cover.
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