Tag Ron Goodman
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Nats MPs ‘limp’ on Murwillumbah Hospital closure
Ron Goodman, former Labor candidate for Tweed, Banora Point. The limp protestations of Lismore Nationals MP Thomas George over the closure of the birthing service at Murwillumbah Hospital are a significant disappointment.
June 16, 2015 | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Labor accuses Nats of misleading voters on electricity sell-off
The NSW Labor party is accusing the Nationals of misleading voters by handing out flyers saying only electricity assets in Sydney would be privatized.
March 26, 2015 | Echonetdaily | 3 -
ALP makes $247m pledge to upgrade region’s roads
Northern rivers councils would have access to $247 million to upgrade roads if the Labor party wins Saturday’s election, deputy Opposition leader Linda Burney promised in Lismore this morning.
March 25, 2015 | Echonetdaily | 2 -
Solar panels for all schools under Labor
Ron Goodman, Labor candidate for Tweed. A Foley Labor government will invest $70 million to install solar panels in all public schools – to help schools in Tweed become more energy efficient and generate clean, renewable solar power. that's welcome news.
March 25, 2015 | Echonetdaily | 1 -
Higher power bills, CSG under the Nats
Ron Goodman, Tweed Labor candidate . Tweed people face the clearest possible choice at the state election on March 28. A vote for the National party is a vote for Geoff Provest's pro-fracking, pro-CSG agenda to expand coal seam gas mining across the north coast.
March 23, 2015 | Echonetdaily | 1 -
Labor promises $40m high school for Pottsville
The NSW Labor opposition has made a bold pitch for support from Tweed Coast communities at the upcoming election with a pledge to build a new $40 million high school at Pottsville which for years locals have campaigned for.
March 12, 2015 | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Ron Goodman, ALP candidate for Tweed
I’m seeking your support as only Labor has the policies and focus to get Tweed back on track by delivering more jobs, better hospitals, quality schools, and banning harmful coal seam gas mining in our region.
March 4, 2015 | Chris Dobney | 0 -
Pottsville primary offered $5m upgrade, but no high-school promise
Pottsville Beach Public School has been promised a major $5 million upgrade to cater for up to 1,000 students if the coalition government is re-elected.
March 4, 2015 | Echonetdaily | 1 -
More argy bargy over Tweed-Byron police numbers
Labor’s candidate for the state seat of Tweed, Ron Goodman, has once again raised the issue of dwindling police numbers on the north coast but the sitting member, Nationals Geoff Provest, says all it proves is that he doesn't know how to read the figures.
January 16, 2015 | Chris Dobney | 0 -
Casino to get 24-hour police station
Richmond Valley Council says its community campaign to upgrade the Casino Police Station was the impetus for NSW police minister Stuart Ayres to fast track the recruitment of additional police officers to allow the station to operate 24-hours a day.
November 11, 2014 | Chris Dobney | 0 -
Provest to blame for looming emergency department crisis
Ron Goodman, Labor candidate for Tweed Tweed Nationals MP Geoff Provest will carry the blame when Tweed Hospital's emergency department is flooded with patients driven there by Tony Abbott's Liberal National Party $7 GP Tax.
October 10, 2014 | Echonetdaily | 1 -
Labor leader wants public election funding
NSW Labor leader John Robertson, in Lismore yesterday, called for elections to be fully funded by the public to prevent a ‘donations for decisions’ culture. The announcement followed a Greens demand to stop political donations by mining companies.
October 1, 2014 | Echonetdaily | 2 -
Lot 490 ‘will be an election issue’
Kingscliff’s last remaining strip of undeveloped coastal land could be Tweed MP Geoff Provest’s Waterloo if Ron Cooper has anything to do with it.
July 9, 2014 | Chris Dobney | 0 -
Cross Border Commission a failure: ALP
Documents obtained under freedom of information show the Cross Border Commission has so far cost NSW taxpayers more than $700,000 – with nothing to show for it, according to the ALP.
July 7, 2014 | Chris Dobney | 0 -
Provest ‘back-flipped’ on TAFE funding
Three years ago, while still in opposition, Tweed MP Geoff Provest signed a pledge to protect TAFE funding. Now his government is knocking the stuffing out of it, according to Labor’s candidate for the seat, Ron Goodman.
March 20, 2014 | Chris Dobney | 0 -
Children’s ward closure plan heartless
Ron Goodman, Labor candidate for Tweed. The move by Geoff Provest and Thomas George to close the children’s ward at Murwillumbah Hospital is simply heartless.
March 11, 2014 | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Plan to close children’s ward of Murwillumbah Hospital
The state opposition has lashed out at Local Health District plans to close the children’s ward at Murwillumbah Hospital, after LHD head Chris Crawford flagged the plan in a consultation paper yesterday.
March 6, 2014 | Chris Dobney | 2 -
Goodman takes on Provest over hospital parking
The newly anointed NSW Labor candidate for Tweed, Ron Goodman, wasted no time in trying to wedge incumbent MP Geoff Provest (Nationals) over a paid parking proposal for Tweed Hospital.
February 25, 2014 | Echonetdaily | 0
