UPDATE Click here to read my September 2011 Local Crime Update *** Judging from calls to my office, there has been a recent spike in crime across the electorate. Locals have been reporting more burglaries, graffiti and general anti-social behaviour. Sadly there have also been some violent ...

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Click here to access Crime Update 2011 In this update: -  Steve Irons on patrol with our local police:  Focus on Hubert Street - Drug lab raid in Cannington - Tackling Lynwood Alleyway issue - Tackling Crime on the Armadale Train Line - Better street lighting helps reduce crime ...

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West Australian Liberal MP and former foster child Steve Irons has urged the Gillard government to delay approval of the history curriculum, saying it is important to properly acknowledge the nation's thousands of children who grew up in care...[click here to read more]

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Federal Member for Swan Steve Irons along with Member for Shortland Jill Hall launched a new parliamentary organisation to investigate seniors' issues and stand up for Australia's elderley community...[click here to read more]

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Creating play spaces in local parks, and establishing a community garden and an aquatic centre have strong public support, according to a City of South Perth study...[click here to read more]

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I rise today to speak about hospitals and health care in my electorate of Swan. The South Perth Hospital has once again been ranked highly in the national survey of hospital satisfaction run by Medibank. This year they have been awarded second place in Western Australia, and this comes on the back o...

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I rise to inform the House of a new parliamentary seniors advocacy group that I have established with the member for Shortland, the Parliamentary Friends of Seniors and Ageing. The member for Shortland and I decided to form the group as a response to Australia's ageing population and the challenges ...

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Antisocial behaviour and crime in Lynwood walkways have resulted in calls for the paths to be closed...[click here to read more]

I rise today to speak on the Clean Energy Bill 2011 and related bills, otherwise known as the carbon tax legislation, the tax we were never going to have under the Prime Minister, who said, 'There will be no carbon tax under the government I lead.' I have spoken in this place before about renewable ...

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I rise in this evening's grievance debate to speak about a situation where potentially thousands of Australians contracted the disease adhesive arachnoiditis after receiving a spinal injection of the chemical dyes Myodil or Pantopaque in the period from 1945 to the late 1980s. I bring to the attenti...

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Canning River Regional Park volunteers plunged into the billabong area of the river in Ferndale last week to help restore the natural vegetation...[click here to read more]

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