23 February 2012

Annual Statement of Government Intentions

Mr CLARK (Box Hill) — The honourable member for Bundoora complained about opposition criticisms of the statement of government intentions, but yet by his own remarks he demonstrates some of its deficiencies. He referred to what he considered to be the situation: that a bill on which the second-reading speech was delivered yesterday, the Justice [...]

Road safety: traffic lights

Mr CLARK (Box Hill) — I raise with the Minister for Roads and Ports the issue of the manner in which traffic lights are returned to full operation after they have been in flashing light mode and the way in which the return to full operation is coordinated with traffic light cameras. I ask the [...]

Life-sustaining medical treatment

Mr CLARK (Box Hill) — The Journal of Law and Medicine has recently reported a tragic Victorian case where a patient had food and fluid withdrawn by doctors, leading to the person’s death, in violation of her Aboriginal cultural beliefs. This follows two previous appalling court decisions that feeding a person by stomach tube is [...]

Labor axes chief information officer

Labor has axed the senior public servant in charge of governmentinformation and communication policy and abolished her entire office. Therehas been no public announcement or explanation of the axing, ShadowMinister for Information and Communication Technology Robert Clark saidtoday. The abolition adds further turmoil to Labor’s already fragmented andineffectual approach to managing the use of information [...]