Liberals
Media Centre
Deputy Leader of the Parliamentary Liberal Party
Shadow Minister for Environment
Phil Honeywood
44 New Street
Ringwood 3134
phil.honeywood@parliament.vic.gov.au , Phone 9870 7396 EO , 9870 9518 Fax
Member of the Legislative Assembly for the Electorate of WARRANDYTE
All releases link to Victorian Liberal Party website except those asterisked which are copied on the Teachers for Forests Pages
29 October 2004 -
HAZELWOOD – ANOTHER DELAHUNTY EMBARRASSMENT *The Bracks Government’s credentials on environment assessment have yet again been exposed as a sham.
16 July 2004 -
INQUIRY A SMOKESCREEN TO HIDE FAST RAIL PROBLEMSTransport Minister Peter Batchelor’s announcement of a secretive inquiry into safety on Victoria’s rural rail network is a smokescreen to divert attention from Labor’s inability to control the rapidly rising costs of its delayed Fast Rail works.
6 July 2004 -
RAIL TRACK LEASE SHOULD BE RETAINED BY FREIGHT AUSTRALIA5 July 2004 -
CHANNEL DEEPENING SUBJECT TO FLAWED AND OUTDATED EES *The deepening of Port Phillip Bay's shipping channel is vital to enhance Victoria's economy and must go ahead, but the current Environmental Effects Statement (EES) process, that the report into channel deepening was subject to, is sub-standard and outdated
23 June 2004 -
WATER TAX – BUT NO WATER TIMELINE *The Liberal Party recognises the need to conserve water as our most precious resource but the Bracks Government’s water plan provides no timeline for the delivery of water saving initiatives – just a timeline to introduce a new tax
20 June 2004 -
LIBERALS TO ACT ON GIPPSLAND LAKES PRESERVATION *The Liberal Party believes that the current industrial use of 80 gigalitres a year of water from the Thomson and Macalister River systems is not sustainable and will commit $200,000 towards a feasibility study into retaining this water (
position paper).26 May 2004 -
FORESTS BILL FAILS THE ENVIRONMENT *The Sustainable Forests (Timber) Bill will not ensure adequate protection of the environment and is further evidence that the Bracks Government "talks the talk" but is incapable of matching its words with action.
6 May 2004 -
LABOR BUDGET SEES ENVIRONMENT FUNDING SLASHED *The Bracks Government has dealt a massive blow to the environment in this week’s State Budget.
While other government departments have at least had their funding increased in line with inflation, funding for the environment has gone backwards
26 April 2004 -
THWAITES MUST DELIVER MORE ACTION AND LESS TALK *The Liberal Party supports the Clean Ocean Foundation in its fight to get the Bracks Government to upgrade the Eastern Treatment Plant as soon as possible.
23 April 2004 -
GOOD RESULT FOR MT STIRLING BUT WHAT ABOUT CRAIG’S HUT? *Shadow Minister for Environment Phil Honeywood today called on the Bracks Government to secure the future of Craig’s Hut by incorporating it into the Mt Stirling Reserve.
7 April 2004
AFFORDABLE HOLIDAYS HARDER TO COME BY UNDER BRACKS-School holidays began this week and the timing of a minimum 20 per cent fee increase for a family ticket to Phillip Island Nature Park could not have come at a worse time for young Victorian families trying to entertain their young ones this Easter.
22 March 2004 -
FILM STUDIO COVER-UP CONTINUESThe Bracks Government is defying a VCAT court order to release politically damaging documents about the Docklands Film Studios
8 October 2003 -
BLOW-OUT ON BILLION DOLLAR SPENCER STREET STATION PROJECTVictorians should get ready for a massive $100 million blowout on the Spencer Street Station project's budget following the revelation that the Civic Nexus consortium which won a $1 billion contract to build the new station, has already lodged further claims for more taxpayers' money.
30 September 2003 -
SAIZERIYA - BRACKS SHATTERS VICTORIA'S INVESTMENT CREDENTIALS3 -The sorry saga that has been the Saizeriya scandal goes to the heart of the Bracks Government's ability to attract investment and jobs to Victoria.
23 September 2003 -
BRACKS' $320,000 BILL AFTER SCRAPPING AIRPORT RAIL LINKThe Bracks Government spent more than $320,000 on the failed Airport Rail Link project - but it was spent after Labor scrapped the project
11 September 2003 -
VICTORIA DRAGGING THE NATION DOWN ON JOBSToday's ABS Labour Force figures show that Victoria is dragging down the national economy - again
11 September 2003 -
BRACKS' OWN COMMITTEE FINDS DUTSON DOWNS NO GOOD FOR TOXIC WASTE *The Bracks Labor Government's preferred site for the toxic waste dump at Dutson Downs in Gippsland was "given the lowest priority" of the Hazardous Waste Siting Advisory Committee because of higher levels of community
10 September 2003 - BRACKS' HAZARDOUS WASTE COMMITTEE A SHAMBLES - FOI REPORT
A damning report presented to the Bracks Government reveals that its much-touted Hazardous Waste Siting Advisory Committee (HWSAC) was politically gagged and plagued by mismanagement and a lack of resources.
9 September 2003 -
FIRST HOME BUYERS SUFFERING IN VICTORIANew home buyers in Victoria are being progressively deprived of access to the great Australian dream
21 August 2003 -
A-G TO PROBE SYNCHROTRON DEAL AFTER BRACKS GAGThe Auditor General will investigate the Bracks Government's secret Business Plan for the $206 million Synchrotron project, following yesterday's secretive viewing of the document
20 August 2003
BRACKS' VERSION OF FOI - SYNCHROTRON PLANS REMAIN SECRETThe Bracks Government has reluctantly given the Liberal Party an extraordinary offer to view a document that until now, apparently did not exist.
14 July 2003 -
BRACKS FAILS HIS OWN TEST ON OPENNESS & ACCOUNTABILITYThe Bracks Labor Government has shelled out about $60 million to three firms on consultancies.
10 July 2003 -
VICTORIA LOSES MORE JOBS: ABS DATAAustralian Bureau of Statistics data released today shows that there were 10,900 jobs lost in Victoria last month.
18 June 2003 -
SYNCHROTRON TURNING INTO WHITE ELEPHANTVictorian taxpayers are facing the full $203 million bill for the delayed Synchrotron Project with no reasonable prospect of the facility being used or it paying its own way.
12 June 2003 -
NATIONAL GALLERY TO OPEN A YEAR LATE WITH TRADEMARK BRACKS BLOWOUTSThe National Gallery of Victoria is set to open a year late and cost $158.7 million - $22.7 million more than originally budgeted for.
28 May 2003 -
REVEALED: BRACKS GOVERNMENT SHOWGROUNDS SELL-OFFThe Bracks Labor Government has let the cat out of the bag on their plans to sell off the Royal Agricultural Showgrounds at Ascot Vale
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