Ivan Venning MP

State Member for Schubert

Ivan Venning MP

Where I stand on the issues

Genetically Modified Foods

Ivan believes that as farmers are having to grow more food every year on less ground to feed more people and at the same time deal with salinity and drought issues that GM crops are the answer. “I see a lot of work being done on salt and drought tolerant grains” he said, “GM wheat is ...

Public Transport

Ivan is acutely aware that the public transport system in South Australia is failing and is in need of a major upgrade. Every form of public transport – trains, buses and trams are suffering from continual problems resulting in South Australia having the poorest passenger transport user rate in ...

Water Crisis/Drought

South Australia is now in our sixth year of protracted drought and the River Murray is running dry; the Coorong and the Lower Lakes system are dying. The worst possible scenario is that all but critical human needs use will be severely restricted. Ivan is of the belief that the Rann Labor ...

Drugs

Ivan led the charge early regarding the detection of drug affected drivers, introducing his own legislation in 2002, despite the State Labor Government continually thwarting it. Ivan tried to introduce it again in 2005, but again he was defeated by the State Rann Labor Government; however this time ...

Independent Commission Against Corruption

He who has nothing to hide has nothing to fear The State Liberals have released our preferred model for a South Australian Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC). The model focuses on public corruption at local and State Government levels and would cost approximately $15 million ...

Deep Sea Ports

This issue started in 1995 when the ports were sold and the Ports Corporation was established. Several options were put up, including Inner Harbour and Pelican Point among others; but Ivan was only interested in one – Outer Harbour – abutting the container terminal. The fact that the ports are ...

Barley Marketing

One of the issues which Ivan fought extremely hard for was to retain the single desk for barley marketing in South Australia. When the Barley Marketing Act was being debated in parliament from 2005, Ivan unequivocally supported the retention of the single desk for barley marketing – reasoning ...
 
 
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