Mar 1, 2012 | Homepage, Media, Media Releases
The Lobbyists’ Register is operating as it should and calls by the Greens to set up a new bureaucracy to deal with lobbyists should be dismissed. Chair of the Finance and Public Administration References Committee Senator Scott Ryan presented a report on the Operation...
Feb 15, 2012 | Homepage, Media, Media Releases
Despite acknowledging that “overall there was a negative view” of Jewish people in the SBS series The Promise, SBS managing director Michael Ebeid has stood by his decision to screen the British production. Under questioning from Liberal senators, Mr Ebeid said he had...
Feb 14, 2012 | Homepage, Media, Media Releases
One in five public servants reported having been bullied last year, but Stephen Sedgwick, head of the Australian Public Service Commission said it is a reporting error, rather than a major problem (State of the Service Report 2010-2011, chapter 3). Even more...
Feb 14, 2012 | Homepage, Media, Media Releases
Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Small Business and Fair Competition Senator Scott Ryan has continued his criticism of the Government’s changes to the Australian National Audit Office, noting that a small business is more likely than the NBN Co to be audited. In...
Feb 14, 2012 | Homepage, Media, Media Releases
Senator Scott Ryan spoke for many Australians on Monday when he said it was offensive that a ceremonial fire was used to burn an Australian flag on Parliament House’s doorstop. Read about it in Sydney Morning Herald.
Feb 13, 2012 | Homepage, Media, Media Releases
Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Small Business and Fair Competition Senator Scott Ryan has expressed surprise that protesters could easily circumvent proper processes in a tense environment and light a fire outside Parliament – a fire that was eventually used to...
