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Budget 2015 Jobs. Growth. Opportunity.

Anzac 100 - a new coming of age

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Support for Small Business

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On the road in Durack

Wild dogs threat to sustainable agriculture

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The 2015 Federal Budget is responsible, measured and fair. It will deliver jobs, growth and opportunity. The Budget will help families and small businesses get ahead and provide greater capacity for Australians to make their own decisions about their future.• TheJobsandSmallBusinesspackagereducestaxesand

creates opportunity, especially for young people.

• TheFamiliesPackagegivesparentsmorechoiceandopportunity for child care and for work.

• PensionshavebeenenhancedandthereisNOplantofurthertaxsuperannuation.

• Thereisnewfundingfornationalsecurity,acontinuationof the Government’s $50 billion infrastructure programmeandreformsthatmakeourtax,foreign investment and welfare system fair and sustainable.

Durackwillbenefitfurtherfromtaxmeasuresforprimary producers, a $5 billion loan facility for infrastructure in northern Australia, $100 million for northern beef roads, a doubling of funds to $32 million for the Roads to Recovery programme, Black Spot funding (Broome, Eneabba, Regans Ford),continuationofworksonGtNorthernandNWCoastalHighways,$990000foramultipurposecomplexinBencubbin, and a $150 000 Durack community chest.

A Budget for All Australians JUNE 2015

“Your local member, Melissa, has been a strong and respectful advocate in Canberra, chipping away for FTTP so I’m pleased that NBNhasconfirmeditwillbe fibre to the premise for Geraldton,” said Hon Malcolm Turnbull in Geraldton on 29 April.

“Recently I announced another 25,900 premises in Durack covering Broome, Cervantes, Dongara, Karratha, Leeman, Jurien, KalbarriandNorthamptonwhich will be fibre to the node-FTTN.”

A number of locations will have towers built to increase capability for around 1,700 premises primarily in the Wheatbelt.

Mr Turnbull and Ms Price share a joke at the ABC Studio - Mid West and Wheatbelt.

Ms Price joins Hon Joe Hockey, Treasurer, following the announcement of a $5 billion loan facility to support infrastructure development in northern Australia.

June 2015

MELISSA PRICE MP

ANZAC 100 - a new coming of age“Australians were at their patriotic best on Anzac Day – the Government, the communities, the RSL and many organisations have been privileged to work together to lift Anzac Day to a new level of awareness and appreciation,” said Melissa Price MP.

“I had the honour of attending Anzac services in Kalbarri, Cervantes, Yuna and Jurien Bay.

“I also visited Mullewa where Father O’Bryan rededicated the World War 1 Memorial which has been restored with the support of Anzac centenary funding.”

Budget 2015 Jobs. Growth. Opportunity.

ANZAC Centenary grant recipient

Project description

Carnamah Historical Society and Museum

Developanddisplayexhibitionon impacts of World War I on Carnamah and surrounds

Shire of Morawa Anzac Centenary commemorative services

Shire of Broome Install a new Memorial wall

Shire of Murchison Develop Anzac Memorial

Mrs Barb Thomas, Fr Robert O’Bryan, Ms Melissa Price MP. This World War 1 Memorial located in the grounds of Our Lady of Mt Carmel Church Mullewa was designed and built by the Priest/Architect Mons John Hawes in 1928 during his tenure as priest in Mullewa. During the 1914-18 conflict, 74 from Mullewa enlisted. The restoration of the Memorial, which features a lone pine, was undertaken with Federal funding support and completed in time for Anzac Day 2015.

Working with my office team members over many months, I am pleased these organisations secured Federal funding for Anzac centenary projects.

Helping Small Business GrowThe 2015 Budget backs small businesses, to help grow the economy and create jobs. Small businesses with less than $2 million turnover will get more support.

Immediate tax deductions for every asset purchased with a value up to $20,000 (each).

Taxrelief-a1.5% tax cut for incorporated small businesses. A 5% tax discount (up to $1,000 a year) for unincorporated small businesses.

Start- ups can immediately deduct professionalexpensesforstartingtheirbusiness.

This new small business,

Newman Bakery and Takeaway,

is doing it right, according to

the locals and visitors alike.

Keeping Australians SafeThe 2015 Budget includes record investment in Defence, national security and law enforcement.

More resources plus new powers to act, will boost our national security agencies’ ability to track and deal with potential terrorists. We are also cracking down on hate preachers.

We’ve stopped the boats and our new Australian Border Force will keep us safer by responding to threats from terrorism and transnational crime.

“When it comes to national security, there can be no shortcuts”.

Tony Abbott MP,Prime Minister of Australia

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Meckering Action Group Inc.

Upgrade the Meckering War Memorial

Koorda Parents and Citizens Association

Koorda Primary School Anzac Memorial

Geraldton City RSL Sub-branch

Restore honour rolls and reprint the 1918 Victoria District honour roll

Our Lady of Mt Carmel Parish Council, Mullewa

Restore the World War I Memorial – Our Lady of Mt Carmel

Shire of Murchison Develop Anzac Memorial

Shire of Mukinbudin Install signage at the Popes Hill Interpretive Site

Wongan Hills RSL Sub-branch

Upgrade lighting at the Wongan Hills Memorial

Friends of Battye Library Inc.

Making WA’s World War I history available world-wide through the digitisation of World War I newspapers

Shire of Mount Magnet

Upgrade of Mount Magnet’s Anzac Memorial Park

Shire of Moora Construct Honour Wall in Centenary Park to commemorate former local residents who served in World War I

Shire of Perenjori Install bronze relief and plaques commemorating locals who served in World War I

Shire of Dalwallinu Create murals to commemorate the forces and their horses of World War I

More Security for SeniorsThe Age Pension will continue to increase twice a year - at the highestavailableindexationrate.

From 2017 - 170,000 pensioners with modest assets will have pensions increased by an average of $30 per fortnight.

For 90% of pensioners, there will either be no change in pension arrangements, or higher pensions. Some part pensioners with higher assets will no longer qualify for the pension, but will continue to get cheaper PBS medicines with the Senior Health care Card.

We will fight Labor’s new taxes on Superannuation.

More Affordable Child CareThe Australian Government’s new child care measures will make child care more affordable. From July 2017, the new Child Care Subsidy will help more families get into work and stay in work.

Working families with incomes between $65,000 and $170,000 will be around $30 per week better off. And we’re removing the $7,500 cap for families earning less than $185,000.

Working families earning less than $65,000 will get an 85% subsidy of child care fees (up to an hourly cap). A Child Care Safety Net will help those families earning less than $65,000 that don’t meet the activity test.

A Home Care (Nannies) Pilot will help people like shift workers access child care.

Our “no jab, no pay” rule will remove access to child care subsidies forparentswhodon’timmunisetheirchildren(withexemptionsonlyon medical grounds).

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June 2015

Roebourne, Yaandina Aged Care Centre The new state of the art facility allows residents to age in place, to stay close to families and friends as they enjoy their twilight years and grow more dependent. I was pleased to officially open the centre on 21 April, to which the Australian government contributed $3.7 million.

Jurien Bay, Anzac Commemoration Anzac Day touches every Australian family. Anzac Day 2015 confirmed for me that it is firmly embedded as a day of national pride. It unites us as one. I enjoyed hearing stories abouttheANZACSfromwell-knownidentityJimClarkeinJurien Bay.

Inkpen, Wheatbelt NRM Bushcare Grants The Australian Government’s efforts to conserve the bush were applauded when I announced that 22 farmers were recipientsofround2oftheWheatbeltNRMRegionBushcareGrants. The grants will be used to protect bush areas that are important both ecologically and to the community.

Kununurra, Ord East-Kimberley Expansion Project ThedevelopmentofNorthernAustraliaisaveryhighpriorityfor the Australian Government. The Hon Bronwyn Bishop, an MP of 28 years, marveled at the enormity and opportunity of the Kimberley, when she visited Broome, Kununurra and Ord stage 2 at my invitation.

Karijini, Karijini Experience Event tourism has enormous potential for development in northern Australia, and locals from Tom Price and Paraburdoo are on the front foot. It was a privilege to attend the Karijini Experienceeventfeaturinganoperaperformance,culinaryexperienceandmoonriselounge,tonameafew.

On the road in Durack

Ms Price officially opened the Yaandina Aged Care Centre in Roebourne; pictured with Veronica Rodenburg, CEO Yaandina Family Centre.

Ms Price with Jim Clarke at the Anzac service in Jurien Bay.

GuyBowen,landholderandgrantrecipient,joinsJimSullivanChairWheatbeltNRM andMsPricefollowingtheNRMfundingannouncement.

Sarah Kemp, Toni Lalich and Indigenous operatic soprano Deborah Cheetham AO with Ms Price following the concert at Karijini.

Kimberley Agricultural Investment GM Jim Engelke shows Ms Bishop and Ms Price the Ord stage2landbeingdevelopedforcropping.Stage3isplannedtocrossthebordertotheNT.

Wild dogs threat to sustainable agricultureSustainable agriculture is an important issue in my federal electorate of Durack. Recently, I visited Challa Station in the Murchison, to better understand the wild dog problem. Wild dogs have been destroying thousands of livestock each year, costing producers millions of dollars. Whereas dingos were once the main culprit and cause of attacks on sheep and goats, it is now the cross bred mongrel that is the problem. I was impressed with the pastoralists’ tenacity in dealing with wild dogs through their baiting program but this alone will not curtail the dogs sufficiently, as recent history has shown. I have written to the State Government, to encourage funding support for the vermin cell fence, and to develop a State wide strategy for the management of wild dogs.

Ms Price visits Ashley and Sue Dowden’s Challa Station in the Murchison, to meet with pastoralists and talk about management of wild dogs.