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Federal Member for Mitchell, the Hon Alex Hawke MP welcomes the agreement by the states and territories to sweeping reforms to country of origin food labelling which will give Australian consumers clearer and more meaningful information about the products they buy.
Today’s agreement comes after decades of frustration on the part of consumers that country of origin information for food is misleading and confusing.
Alex Hawke congratulated their state and territory colleagues for agreeing to these reforms that deliver a big win for consumers.
Federal Member for Mitchell, the Hon Alex Hawke MP, invited local organisations that need support to preserve and conserve important Australian heritage to apply for a Community Heritage Grant.
Managed by the National Library, and funded by the Australian Government, the Community Heritage Grants program provides grants of up to $15,000 each to help local organisations preserve and maintain nationally significant cultural heritage collections of documents and objects at the local level.
The Federal Member for Mitchell, the Hon Alex Hawke MP, is encouraging young local athletes to apply for the Local Sporting Champions program.
The Local Sporting Champions program is designed to support young people participating in state, national and international level sporting championships as an athlete, coach or official.
“These grants help aspiring young athletes to realise their goals. It is a way of supporting the next generation of Australian sporting champions, said Alex Hawke.
Mr HAWKE (Mitchell—Assistant Minister to the Treasurer) (12:31): It also gives me great pleasure to join with the Prime Minister in congratulating the member for Boothby on an excellent speech. The member for Boothby started with a reference to ancient Rome. There was a great ancient Roman called Cincinnatus, who really models what the member for Boothby said.
Federal Member for Mitchell, the Hon Alex Hawke MP, is encouraging workers in Mitchell to tally work-related deductions using the myDeductions tool within the ATO’s phone app.
“The 2015-16 financial is going to be the first time taxpayers can use the myDeductions tool to complete their return,” Alex Hawke said.
“In the 2014-15 financial year, 8.4 million individual taxpayers claimed work-related expenses.