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Media Releases 2004
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December
16th, 2004
No
Pokies MLC Nick Xenophon has called on the Attorney General and the Police
Minister to provide urgent reports on the Byron Pickett case
December 1st,
2004
Revealed: 17 year old overseas student loses over $40,000 at Casino
- two
years worth of tuition and living expenses - including over $20,000 in just one week
November 26th,
2004
Nick Xenophon's breakthrough amendment to increase funding to the
Gamblers' rehabilitation Fund passes in the Upper House
November 19th,
2004
'Pokies Watch' Phone In inundated with calls about pokies addictions and
sharp practices
October
27th, 2004
The
Rann Government has been savaged over its watered-down smoking laws
– with one
of
Australia
’s leading tobacco control figures calling it
a ‘sell out’
October
26th, 2004
Call for a national response following sentencing in Australia's
biggest gambling related crime
October
26th, 2004
Nick Xenophon reveals that the SA Health Minister has sat on a key
tobacco plan
for over five months without acting
October 23rd, 2004
Nick Xenophon calls for James Hardie executives to be subjected to a community
service order that would involve caring for and cleaning terminally ill
asbestos victims
October
22nd, 2004
Mr Xenophon responds to the public
disclosure of the letter from Archbishop Stylianos, the Primate of the Greek
Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia to Archbishop Joseph of the Greek Orthodox
Archdiocese of New Zealand
October
18th, 2004
Draft Industrial Manslaughter Laws announced at the Simply Safety
Seminar
at the Old Adelaide Gaol
September
23rd, 2004
Mr Xenophon to introduce legislation to establish an asbestos
hotline
aimed at informing the public and
advising home owners/renovators to prevent exposure
September
17th, 2004
Nick Xenophon calls on MPs to put all domestic travel reports
on
the Internet to ensure more accountability
September
11th, 2004
Xenophon receives backing from US drug expert
in his calls for a
clinical trial of Naltrexone for gambling addicts
July 29th,
2004
Calls for a coronial inquest into the death of Michael Eldridge
July 28th, 2004
Public meeting
to hear how lax consumer credit laws and aggressive bank practices
have fuelled
a youth debt blow-out
July 27th, 2004
Xenophon welcomes Federal
Labor's new gambling policy
but calls for Latham to go even further
July 25th, 2004
Xenophon calls
on the Premier to initiate a referendum on poker machines
July 24th, 2004
Xenophon steps in to
support a gambling phone in for people with disabilities
July 23rd, 2004
Xenophon initiates
changes to electricity and gas bills
July 8th, 2004
National gambling
statistics show South Australia leading country
on
total gambling losses
June 27th, 2004
Xenophon calls for aid to stop
the closure of the Ice Arena
June 25th, 2004
Federal Government's
Family Bonus results in huge spike in poker machine gambling
June 16th, 2004
Land tax crippling
B and B operators
June 11th, 2004
Archbishop's Resignation:
An Important Step in the Journey of Healing for Victims
June 2nd, 2004
Xenophon welcomes SA
Government's plans to amend asbestos legislation
May 31st, 2004
Anglican Church Child Sex
Abuse Inquiry
May 27th, 2004
Xenophon critical of SA
Government's weak 2004/2005 Budget
May 24th, 2004
Xenophon calls for Federal MPs
to Follow SA's Lead on Travel Reports
Being Posted on the Net
May 19th, 2004
Xenophon calls for a 'Fuelwatch'
programme to run in South Australia
May 4th, 2004
Xenophon to team up with Greens MP
Kris Hanna to toughen pokie reduction legislation
April 28th, 2004
Adelaide Casino in Breach of
Code of Practice
April 29th, 2004
Victim's of Plea Bargaining
'System' Plead for Justice
April 20th, 2004
Xenophon Calls for Changes to Law on
Media and Public Access Ban in AP Lands
April 1st, 2004
Xenophon critical of
Kellogg's Response to Online Casino Allegations
March
31st, 2004
Kellogg's Kids Promotional DVD Linked to Online Casino
March 25th, 2004
Xenophon slams SA Government for
Breaking Key Election Promise to Keep SA GM Free
March 24th, 2004
Xenophon to close deadly
asbestos loophole
March 23rd, 2004
Xenophon calls for an inquiry
into the Medical Board
March 15th, 2004
Move for Parliamentary Inquiry
into 'Sydney-Centric' ABC Management
March 8th, 2004
Xenophon critical of pokie
barons' calls for compensation
March 4th, 2004
Xenophon Slams the SA Premier's
Reshuffle Blunder
March 1st, 2004
Xenophon Plan to Ensure
Asbestos 'Cowboys' are Lassoed in with new law
February 25th, 2004
Calls to Provide
Government Funding for Pubs with No Pokies
February 23rd, 2004
Xenophon Teams up with
Greens MP Kris Hanna to Ensure Insurers Disclose
the Extent of their Expected
Windfall
February 23rd, 2004
Courts to have power to order
intervention programs for gambling related crimes |
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