Federal Member for Page Kevin Hogan today congratulated Yamba Welding on winning a Government contract worth more than $5 million to build eight vessels to carry out border control operations around the country. “This is great news for Yamba Welding, our local community and importantly people looking for work,” Mr Hogan said. “Government tenders such…
Federal Member for Page Kevin Hogan said nine local quarries have been awarded contracts to supply road building material for the Woolgoolga to Ballina section of the Pacific Highway Upgrade. “This means more jobs for our community,” Mr Hogan said. “The nine north coast quarries awarded contracts on this section are a combination of large…
Contracts have been awarded to begin works on more than 100 bridges between Woolgoolga and Ballina Work will deliver jobs boom for Mid North Coast and Northern Rivers regions Around 1,700 workers already employed on upgrade, with more jobs to come as work ramps up Federal Member for Page Kevin Hogan said…
Federal Member for Page Kevin Hogan said employment figures released today reveal people looking for work under the Coalition’s new jobactive employment services model are achieving better, long-term employment outcomes. “Since July 2015 we have seen 3477 job placements across the communities of Page – this is an outstanding result and places us in the…
Federal Member for Page Kevin Hogan has announced additional ongoing funding of more than $1.8 million per year for 30 new Residential Aged Care places in Maclean. “This is great news for our aging community and also great news for those looking for work in the expanding aged care sector with about 40 new local…
Federal Member for Page Kevin Hogan said St Michaels will receive more than $500,000 of ongoing funding to provide 15 Home Care places in the Casino community, creating about 10 new local jobs. “This is great news for the older members of Casino and for local job seekers,” Mr Hogan said. “The new Home Care…
Federal Member for Page Kevin Hogan will tomorrow hold a Regional Strategy meeting with community leaders to identify a list of companies that will be approached to move their operations to our region. From this meeting, companies will be identified to approach. There will also be a decision on the two to three people best…
Federal member for Page Kevin Hogan is reminding businesses in that the Restart programme provides up to $10,000 (GST inclusive) to hire an eligible 50-plus job seeker and retain that person for two years. Mr Hogan said under the programme eligible employers can receive up to $10,000 when they employ a mature-age job seeker who…
In an editorial this week, the editor of the Northern Star said I needed to “chalk up some wins”. I would like to share a list of just some of the wins I have had for our community in my first 15 months. The paper’s editorial also mentioned the difficulties of first-time backbenchers getting their…
Child care educators in Page are among more than 50,000 long day care educators across Australia set to benefit from a $200 million Federal Government investment in professional development. “The Federal Government’s Long Day Care Professional Development Programme will directly support 25 long day care services Pageto help with the cost of training and upskilling…