Category Archives: Speeches

Hume’s GP Super Clinic which was officially opened recently will provide general, allied and dental health services under the one roof.

Broadmeadows MP, Frank McGuire welcomed this vital community asset and said that it will provide the people of Broadmeadows with high quality medical services in a state of the art facility at an easily accessible location.

Funded by the former Labor Federal Government and Dianella Community Health, the Broadm

BROADMEADOWS MATTERS BECAUSE IT SYMBOLISES HOPE.

It is an emblem for that diminishing Australian value – a fair go for all. Parents from 140 countries have crossed the world with children in their arms and hopes in their hearts searching for a better life, as my family did before them. Only the accents, not the aspirations have changed.
Our obligation is to build cohesive communities.

After living in Broadmeadows for 25 years, I returned 14 yea

WITHIN DAYS I HAD THE PRIVILEGE OF LAYING A WREATH AT GALLIPOLI AND PLANTING A SAPLING FROM THE SEED OF ITS POIGNANT LONE PINE AT THE MEADOWS PRIMARY SCHOOL IN BROADMEADOWS.

The juxtaposition is testimony to Faulkner’s insight that the past is never dead and buried – it is not even the past.

Australia and Turkey forged new identities at Gallipoli. Diggers and Turks fought in trenches sometimes only metres apart, shooting to kill then

It is an honour to acknowledge the life and times of Peter Ross-Edwards, a man acclaimed as a notable Australian, Victorian political leader, father, husband, lawyer and Royal Australian Air Force officer, whose tours of duty took him to the United Kingdom, Italy, North America and the Middle East during World War II. That is an impressive list of achievements for anyone, but Peter Ross-Edwards was more than the sum of such parts.

We met in 1980

As a matter of urgency I call on the Victorian government to make public its plan and financial commitment for the infrastructure required for the proposed property development in Broadmeadows that looms as the biggest since the days of the housing commission. The proposed redevelopment of the Yakka site could see low-income families in apartment buildings of up to 10 or even 15 storeys. That would make the project the biggest landmark in the are