Welcome to my website. Since being elected as the member for Molonglo in 2006, I have worked hard to represent the people of Molonglo as a local member and also in my roles as Minister for Education and Training, Children and Young People, Planning, Tourism, Sport and Recreation.
I am committed to building a high quality education system which will prepare our students for the future. We have invested record amounts to build better schools and train quality teachers so that our students have access to quality teaching in state-of-the art facilities.
Taking advantage of my unique role as Minister for Education and Sport and Recreation, I have revitalised physical education in our schools. Quality PE and school sport not only helps address the worrying issue of childhood obesity but is also proved to help students with other areas of school, such as reading and writing.
As Minister for Planning, I have begun a reform process which will make our development controls simpler, faster and more effective. I have also implemented a number of programs designed to minimise the environmental impact future development has on our city. Climate change is a very real problem and ACT Labor is committed to working with Canberrans to do our share.
The Chief Minister and I have been working hard to implement the affordable housing action plan to ensure that we all have the opportunity to own our own home.
Please have a look around my website and give my office a call if there is anything I can help you with.
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Thursday, July 2nd, 2009

The first Building the Education Revolution project in the ACT, and one of the first in the country, has been completed at the Turner School. The school received $200,000 under Federal Labor’s National School Pride component of the Building the Education Revolution.