It was an honour to co-host the Burwood Local Business Forum as the Minister for Small and Family Business, the Workplace and Deregulation, alongside the Australia Chinese Youth Business Association. The event was a huge success, with over 30 local business attendees at Burwood library. It is small and family businesses like those in my […]

It was a pleasure to attend the West Harbour Rugby Union Football Club’s opening of their new Rugby Performance Centre. The centre at Concord Oval will strengthen the West Harbour Rugby Pirates and the wider sporting community. The new facilities were furnished with training equipment funded by Round 3 of the Stronger Communities Program, showing […]

While building and construction, hospitality, health and education all account for a big slab of that employment, there’s a growing band of entrepreneurs building new high-tech concepts including virtual reality, digital mapping, 3D cameras, wearable technology and software. The Turnbull Government this week announced a grant of $500,000 to the University of Western Sydney to […]

On the 15th June, I joined Senator the Hon Simon Birmingham at Rhodes Central Preschool Kindergarten, to announce the expansion of the Government’s successful Early Learning Languages Australia (ELLA). It’s a program that gets kids engaged and interested in learning a second language from an early age. We’re expanding language options to include Korean, Vietnamese, […]