Tag Janelle Saffin
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Nats MLC explains power policy
Nationals MLC and Ballina state election candidate Ben Franklin has responded to comments by Labor Lismore candidate Janelle Saffin that Labor will legislate lower power costs for consumers.
5 days ago | The Echo | 0 -
Saffin hits out at dwindling role for M’bah Courthouse
Labor candidate for Lismore, Janelle Saffin, says 'it’s a bit sad and a bit ironic' that NSW Attorney General Mark Speakman chose to make an announcement about the future of the Murwillumbah Courthouse outside the Lismore Court.
27 days ago | Chris Dobney | 1 -
Spend Snowy cash on regional jobs: Saffin
Labor candidate for the state seat of Lismore, Janelle Saffin, has challenged locals to come up with employment opportunities that could be funded by a $4 billion spending splurge.
September 18, 2018 | Chris Dobney | 4 -
Lismore school backlog worst in state: Saffin
Labor’s candidate for the state seat of Lismore, Janelle Saffin, has come out fighting, claiming her opponent’s party has left schools in Lismore millions of dollars out of pocket.
May 7, 2018 | Echonetdaily | 1 -
Rainbow Power Company donates solar oven to Timor-Leste
Nimbin's Rainbow Power Company has donated a solar oven to Timor-Leste as a Christmas gift.
December 27, 2017 | The Echo | 1 -
In Page, non winners can still be grinners
At just 18 years-of-age, this election is the first time Kudra Falla-Ricketts has been eligible to vote. Like many first timers, Kudra was very happy to have a chance to have her say about how this country is run.
July 3, 2016 | Eve Jeffery | 4 -
Colour but not much movement at Page candidates’ forum
Lismore City Hall seemed an optimistic choice of venue for Tuesday night’s Page candidates’ forum, hosted by GetUp. But it was almost full, perhaps surprisingly given the state of roads after Saturday’s storms.
June 8, 2016 | Chris Dobney | 3 -
Govt accused of cutting road, hospital funding
Activist group GetUp has accused the Coalition of gutting north coast hospital funding in the federal budget while Page Labor candidate Janelle Saffin said road funding has been slashed as well.
May 16, 2016 | Chris Dobney | 0 -
Federal MPs stoush over CSG on north coast
The state government has dismissed as a 'bureaucratic bungle' a CD it issued spruiking northern NSW to some 20,000 foreign mining investors as a good place for coal seam gas exploration.
May 13, 2016 | Echonetdaily | 4 -
Hogan could be gone if he doesn’t support Gonski
A ReachTel survey conducted in Page on Tuesday night shows sitting Nationals MP Kevin Hogan in serious trouble, with ALP contender and former incumbent Janelle Saffin ahead by 56 to 44 per cent on a two-party preferred basis.
April 22, 2016 | Chris Dobney | 4 -
Saffin granted bail on sexual assault charge
Edward ‘Ned’ Saffin has been granted bail in relation to charges that he sexually assaulted a man at gunpoint in Bangalow on 4 July.
November 27, 2015 | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Saffin welcomes Nimbin in new seat of Page
The inclusion of Nimbin in the proposed new electoral boundary for the federal seat of Page makes good sense, according to Labor’s candidate for the seat, Janelle Saffin.
October 26, 2015 | Echonetdaily | 1 -
Janelle Saffin makes Top 100 Women of Influence list
We all know Janelle Saffin as the former (and possibly future) federal MP for Page but how many locals know about her remarkable legal and humanitarian work and her life-long advocacy for an independent East Timor?
September 25, 2015 | Chris Dobney | 3 -
Labor’s local hero Saffin returns to tackle Page
Former Page MP Janelle Saffin is returning to politics to try and wrest back the seat she lost to the National Party in the last federal election.
September 23, 2015 | Echonetdaily | 6 -
Janelle Saffin made honorary fellow of SCU
The former ALP member for Page, has been made an honorary fellow of Southern Cross University after some 16 years as a member of the university council. In her acceptance speech she encouraged students 'one can never be too busy to do good'.
September 26, 2014 | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Page Candidate Profiles – 2013 Election
Labor: Janelle Saffin (age 58) Born and bred in Ipswich, QLD, Janelle has lived in Lismore for 35 years. She left school at 13 and worked at the local meatworks, in hairdressing, and at a pineapple factory. She pursued further... Read More →
August 30, 2013 | Simon Haslam | 0 -
Page candidates grilled at election forum
A panel of hopeful candidates for Page faced a full house of engaged voters at Echonetdaily's forum last night, many of them under 30.
August 30, 2013 | Echonetdaily | 3 -
Feds ‘have power to act’ on CSG
Federal local ALP members Justine Elliot and Janelle Saffin will today pose for a media shoot outside Lismore Post Office with a 12,000 strong petition they have collected to go to state parliament opposing coal seam gas mining in the northern rivers.
August 23, 2013 | Chris Dobney | 0 -
Politics of inclusion played out
Federal election candidates for the seat of Page came together in a show of solidarity for charity left when they competed in a joint sports day on Saturday at the Lismore Police Citizens Youth Club (PCYC). The event, to raise... Read More →
August 14, 2013 | Echonetdaily | 0
