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Reply #1185 - Mar 17^th, 2011 at 11:52am

Dandenong-based automotive components manufacturer Nissan Casting Australia Pty Ltd has secured a $21 million global contract to produce components for the new zero emission, all electric Nissan LEAF vehicle.

Manufacturing, Exports and Trade Minister Richard Dalla-Riva congratulated the company on gaining the lucrative contract to manufacture three aluminium components for the Nissan LEAF.

“This contract, which was won against the odds of strong global competition, is a terrific win for Nissan Casting Australia, for our automotive components sector and for local manufacturing,” Mr Dalla-Riva said.

“The contract secures the jobs of more than 100 workers here at the company’s Dandenong plant and will drive exports worth up to $160 million.”

The $21 million project will use a new aluminium manufacturing technology developed in Victoria by the CAST Co-operative Research Centre to manufacture components for the all-electric vehicle.

Mr Dalla-Riva said rebuilding Victoria’s manufacturing base was a key priority for the Baillieu Government.

“The Victorian Government is committed to the future of manufacturing in our state, and deals such as this prove our manufacturers are innovative, quality driven and globally competitive,” Mr Dalla-Riva said.

Victoria’s automotive manufacturing industry employs 28,000 people, earning exports worth $2 billion annually and conducting 75 per cent of the nation’s automotive research and development.

Mr Dalla-Riva said the deal also supported the Automotive Australia 2020 (AA2020) Technology Roadmap, an industry-developed and owned technology roadmap supported by the Commonwealth and Victorian Governments.

“The AA2020 program seeks to understand Australian automotive capability and link it to opportunities to address emerging social and technological trends,” Mr Dalla-Riva said.

“The Victorian Government is working with the automotive manufacturing sector to provide support and development opportunities to maintain Victoria’s position as the nation’s premier manufacturing state.”

Mr Dalla-Riva also took the opportunity to test drive one of 16 Australian specification LEAF vehicles, which will form part of a five year trial by the Victorian Government, starting in July 2011.

The Nissan LEAF was rolled out in Japan, the US and selected European markets in late 2010, and delivery in Australia is expected in 2012. By late 2013, the Nissan Casting Plant is expected to be producing 22,000 electric vehicle components per month, contributing to Nissan’s global leadership in zero emission vehicle technology.

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Reply #1186 - Mar 17^th, 2011 at 11:54am

Children from struggling families can access school uniforms, shoes and books more easily thanks to a new home and fundraising programs for the State Schools’ Relief charity, which turns 80 this year.

Education Minister Martin Dixon launched a new Payroll Giving Scheme, which allows Education Department employees to donate a portion of their pay to the charity.

At the same time Mr Dixon opened a new, larger distribution centre in Bentleigh East and launched Big Vic Cross Country, a fundraising program for schools, run in association with School Sport Victoria.

Under Big Vic Cross Country, schools holding a cross country event can register with State Schools’ Relief for runners to be sponsored as fundraisers for the charity.

“Children will be literally running for their counterparts whose families are finding it tough due to a range of circumstances, including the recent floods,” Mr Dixon.

“The big heart of our education community is further supporting our education family through the new Payroll Giving Scheme, making it more convenient for our already generous teachers to donate to this worthwhile cause.”

Last year State Schools’ Relief helped 8300 students and their families by providing 2470 pairs of shorts and runners, 6600 polo shirts and 2700 track pants. With demand increasing, this year the charity is expected to help even more.

Many of the children assisted recently had been affected by drought and floods.

Mr Dixon said providing new uniforms and shoes to children who could not to access them otherwise provided a broad range of benefits beyond keeping them warm.

“It enables participation in school and community activities and alleviates the financial burden on families,” Mr Dixon said.

The Victorian Government will cover all of the charity’s staffing and operational costs, including the cost of the lease for the new distribution centre, ensuring 100 per cent of donated funds go straight to children in need.

Mr Dixon said having new clothes also helped children avoid the stigma of “looking poor” and stopped them feeling different from their classmates.

“Flow on positive effects include improved attendance rates, better academic performance and increased self esteem – not only for the students but for their parents as well,” Mr Dixon said.

The State Schools’ Relief charity was formed during the great depression and is celebrating its 80th year of helping children in need.

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Reply #1187 - Mar 17^th, 2011 at 12:21pm

Verge wrote on Mar 17^th, 2011 at 11:50am:

The $48.5 million Kororoit Creek Road duplication project reached a major milestone today with traffic switched from the level crossing to the newly completed west-bound bridge.

What - no congratulations to the Brumby Government ?

I doubt the project would proceed with

THIS LOT

They'd claim it had a "black hole" and "re-scope" it

WORKS START ON $48.5 MILLION KOROROIT CREEK RD UPGRADE

March16, 2010

Removal of the busy Altona rail level crossing on Kororoit Creek Road will provide motorists with safer and easier travel, with works now underway on the $48.5 million duplication project that will also fully divide the road and introduce new lanes between Laverton North and Williamstown.

Roads and Ports Minister Tim Pallas, who was joined by Member for Altona Jill Hennessy to mark the start of works, said the upgrade would provide significant safety benefits and reduce traffic delays in the western suburbs.

“The Brumby Labor Government is taking action now to build a better transport system, improving Victoria’s roads so people can spend more time with family and friends and less time in traffic,” Mr Pallas said

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http://www.jillhennessy.com.au/index.php?categoryid=9&p2_articleid=42

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Reply #1188 - Mar 17^th, 2011 at 12:35pm

Verge wrote on Mar 17^th, 2011 at 11:52am:

Dandenong-based automotive components manufacturer Nissan Casting Australia Pty Ltd has secured a $21 million global contract to produce components for the new zero emission, all electric Nissan LEAF vehicle.

Manufacturing, Exports and Trade Minister Richard Dalla-Riva congratulated the company on gaining the lucrative contract to manufacture three aluminium components for the Nissan LEAF.

“This contract, which was won against the odds of strong global competition, is a terrific win for Nissan Casting Australia, for our automotive components sector and for local manufacturing,” Mr Dalla-Riva said.

“The contract secures the jobs of more than 100 workers here at the company’s Dandenong plant and will drive exports worth up to $160 million.”

The $21 million project will use a new aluminium manufacturing technology developed in Victoria by the CAST Co-operative Research Centre to manufacture components for the all-electric vehicle.

Mr Dalla-Riva said rebuilding Victoria’s manufacturing base was a key priority for the Baillieu Government.

Weight loss for healthier cars

25 Nov 2010

A team of Swinburne University researchers has developed a joining system that overcomes decades-long obstacles to the wider use of magnesium in the automotive industry.

Magnesium, an ultra-lightweight metal has long been the metal the car industry wants, but its susceptibility to galvanic corrosion and cracking has frustrated vehicle makers and held up its development as a metal of the future.

The Swinburne-led research team, part of the CAST Cooperative Research Centre that includes industry partners Henrob and Henkel, believe they have found a solution that allows magnesium to be joined to steel and aluminium, the two main metals involved in vehicle construction.

https://www.cast.org.au/index.php?stm_a=23|&stm_sa=31|&stm_h=m;280|ma;1200|r;&m=...

So what ELSE has the Baillieu Government been up to ?

Aside from fixing drains and rattling charity tins ?

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Reply #1189 - Mar 17^th, 2011 at 5:47pm

Strange - the whole tenure of the grease monkey was satisfied by doing nothing and just living off the fruits of the previous administration.

In comparison, Baillieu has inherited a right old mess from the last mob.

A healthcare system described as embarrassing by leading healthcare professionals.
A de-sal plant costing us millions that nobody needs.
A transport system that is a joke and an administrative nightmare.
A pipeline built after evicting people off their own land and refusing to listen to ordinary people.
A dredging of the bay despite a chorus of protest over the environmental damage for generations.

Yep, thank god those jumped-up twerps are back in their box.

Lord only knows where the old grease monkey is these days.....
Probably somewhere at OUR EXPENSE as always.

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Reply #1190 - Mar 17^th, 2011 at 6:46pm

Andrei.Hicks wrote on Mar 17^th, 2011 at 5:47pm:

Baillieu has inherited a right old mess from the last mob.

Quote:

Victoria leads states in jobs growth

Tim Colebatch
November 12, 2010

VICTORIA has added more jobs over the past four years than any other state, with 278,000 more people in work than at the time of the last state election.

Jobs figures released yesterday by the Bureau of Statistics show that Australia's buoyant jobs growth continued in October, with employers adding almost 30,000 jobs in seasonally adjusted terms.

On the more reliable trend figures used to analyse state data,

Victoria has added 95,000 jobs in the past year, with jobs growing 3.5 per cent in the state, compared with 3.2 per cent growth in the nation.

Over the past four years, the bureau reports that

Victoria has enjoyed the biggest jobs growth in the nation in absolute terms

, and the third fastest growth behind the Northern Territory and Western Australia.

''Victoria is Australia's jobs engine room,'' Treasurer John Lenders declared.

''Not only have we achieved the 150,000 jobs target promised at the last election, we have created 138,000 more jobs than promised and more than any other state.''

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/victoria-leads-states-in-jobs-growth-20101111-...

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Mr Baillieu himself said Victoria was in a good position, shortly after taking Government.

"After he received his initial briefings from the Department of Treasury and Finance he came out and spoke to the media, this is back in December, and said that the state's finances were sound," he said.

"[Mr Baillieu said] that the budget was in strong surplus and the finances were sound

.

"It now suits his political purposes to come and and invent and scaremonger about black holes.

"There are no black holes."

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/03/09/3158794.htm

The government did not inherit a budget deficit or hidden ''black holes''

http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/editorial/baillieu-breaks-promise-that-matters-201...

NOWHERE TO RUN, TED

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Andrei.Hicks Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 23818 Carlsbad, CA Gender:	Re: Baillieu: "We Can Do Better" (or maybe n Reply #1192 - Mar 17^th, 2011 at 6:49pm And still no recognition that you and I have the same backgrounds I see Buzz. In reality we should be voting the same way, given our similar upbringings....
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Reply #1193 - Mar 17^th, 2011 at 7:02pm

Andrei.Hicks wrote on Mar 17^th, 2011 at 6:49pm:

And still no recognition that you and I have the same backgrounds I see Buzz.

In reality we should be voting the same way, given our similar upbringings....

You're an ENGLISH, (wannabe) blue-blood, bigoted PRAT
I fail to find ANYTHING in common with you
Nor would I desire there to be

You're BIG on racist comment
BIG on personal opinion

And SHORT on fact

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Reply #1194 - Mar 17^th, 2011 at 8:30pm

buzzanddidj wrote on Mar 4^th, 2011 at 11:40am:

Police investigate Dalla-Riva allegations
3 hours ago

Victorian Premier Ted Baillieu says he has full confidence in Richard Dalla-Riva, the Minister for Manufacturing, despite allegations that he misused a police database when he was a detective.

Opposition frontbencher James Merlino used parliamentary privilege yesterday, to accuse Mr Dalla-Riva of using the LEAP database to perform background checks on his neighbours in the 1990s.

Mr Dalla-Riva told Parliament that the checks were done legitimately as part of an investigation into two letter bombs attacks at his home.

Victoria Police has confirmed it is examining the accusation

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/03/04/3154920.htm

Do you SERIOUSLY believe Victoria Police protocol would allow him to OFFICIALLY be on the team investigating a possible attempt on his family's life ?

But, time will tell

HE DID IT

Richard Dalla-Riva confirms story that he spied on neighbours

VEXNEWS
March 5, 2011

Victoria’s Manufacturing Minister Richard Dalla-Riva has finally admitted claims made by VEXNEWS two years ago and repeated in the Victorian Parliament this week that he used Police databases to spy on his neighbours.

He insists that this was justified because he was investigating letterbox bombings of his home in 1993. Today’s Aged newspaper reports that he has confirmed our initial report and – perhaps showing signs of strain – said he would be “vowing to push for an anti-corruption investigation into the Labor frontbencher (James Merlino)” who repeated some elements of the VEXNEWS story during this colourful week in state politics.

A minister interfering in investigations of the yet to be established Independent Commission Against Corruption would probably be putting his job in serious jeopardy, the whole point of these bodies apparently being that they operate independently of ministerial whim.

So he’d better watch that, and we understand RDR will be counselled against such outbursts by the Baillieu/Cafagna hierarchy this morning.

Leaving that aside, and there are questions about the timing of the spying that are unresolved, now that he has admitted our central claim, the obvious question arises how did we know?

While we are obliged to protect source’s confidentiality what we can disclose for the first time is that

Dalls-Riva’s wife, Sadie

, apparently also in law enforcement, has boasted to her neighbours of the fact that this checking of the neighbourhood had occurred. While we won’t name our source or the identity of the neighbour, we remain in contact with the former and their recollections – when we checked this week – are unchanged.

http://www.vexnews.com/news/12520/he-did-it-richard-dalla-riva-confirms-vexnews-...

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Reply #1196 - Mar 17^th, 2011 at 10:12pm

A PROFOUNDLY deaf girl promised decent school transport by Ted Baillieu is being forced to spend four hours a day on a bus to and from class
.

Kate McGuigan, 13, who cannot speak and has sight and sleeping disorders, yesterday made a personal plea to the Premier to reverse a government decision that has almost doubled her daily travel time.

Kate was among several deaf children photographed with the then Opposition Leader when he

attacked Labor for cutting school transport services for disabled students in 2006.

But now, the year 7 Victorian College for the Deaf student - and several of her peers - have suffered the same fate.

Last week, the Education Department ordered her taxi be replaced by a bus trip from her Mordialloc home to her St Kilda Rd school - via Keysborough, Noble Park, Dandenong, Clayton, Hughesdale and Oakleigh.

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Kate, who taught Mr Baillieu to sign "Ted" when they met,

appealed to the Premier to overrule the decision.

"

Mr B, I want you to help," she signed, with her mother interpreting. "I can't concentrate at school. I am just too tired and sleepy to do my work.

"I don't want to go on the bus. I want to do my homework and I want to learn ... (but) I am tired and I don't feel well."

Before the 2006 election, Mr Baillieu said a Liberal government would restore taxi services for disabled students.

An Education Department spokeswoman said the buses were in line with policy.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/school-transport-plea-falls-on-deaf-ea...

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Reply #1197 - Mar 18^th, 2011 at 6:30pm

buzzanddidj wrote on Mar 17^th, 2011 at 12:41am:

But WAIT, there's MORE ....

Government slow to act on commuter protection promise

By Lisa Maksimovic - exclusive
Updated 6 hours 9 minutes ago

The Baillieu Government's key election promise of protecting Melbourne's rail network at night appears to be in doubt even before it begins.

The Coalition committed to the rollout of 940 protective services officers (PSO) to try and make Melbourne's train stations more safe.

The ABC has learned only about 5 per cent of the 940 recruits will be trained in the first year, and almost half are likely to be trained in the final year of the Government's term in office

About 50 PSOs will get eight weeks training at the Victoria Police Academy this year.

They will be equipped with firearms, but do not have the power of arrest.

When asked why he could not reveal firm details of the PSO schedule three months before it is meant to begin, Mr Ryan said it was unreasonable to expect that the details would be finalised already.

The Police Association's Greg Davies says they would have hoped for more precise information by now.

He says the police academy is already under enormous pressure to produce an additional 1,700 police officers, as well as the 940 new PSOs.

"There's a very large impost on them and to back-end, if you like, the recruitment of so many, will put an even further strain on things," he said.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/03/16/3165917.htm

"They will be equipped with firearms, but do not have the power of arrest"

Did I HEAR right ?

Equipped with firearms
(and I assume the authority to USE them ?)
But NO power of arrest ?

Anyone have any ideas how that might play out in a violent situation ?

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Cattle ordered out of Victorian Alps

Fri Mar 18, 2011

Federal Environment Minister Tony Burke has given the Victorian Government until April 8 to get cattle out of the Alpine National Park.

The Ted Baillieu-led government reintroduced cattle grazing into the park in January to test if grazing cuts down the bushfire risk.

But Mr Burke has lashed out at the State Government and says the matter should first have been referred for Federal Government approval.

He says if the State Government does not take the cattle out in time and refer the plan for his approval, the Federal Government will act anyway.

"Every Australian company knows they're not above national law. Victoria decided maybe they were, well they're now in for a shock. They're not above the law and by April 8 the cattle will be out and the matter will be referred," he said.

He described the Victorian Government's responses to his department's requests for information about the trial as "a joke".

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/03/18/3167797.htm

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