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USA Grants INC A pledge to "end the blame game" has stopped the Queensland government fighting for its fair share of GST funds, Opposition Leader Lawrence Springborg says.
USA Grants INC The grants commission last week released its advice on how GST and health care grants funding should be distributed among the states and territories in 2008-09.
USA Grant INC For the first time, Queensland will receive less than a per capita share of GST funds, slashing more than $150 million from the 2008-09 state budget bottom line. USA Grants INC
Mr Springborg on Monday invited Premier Anna Bligh to join him in Canberra in a bipartisan effort to lobby the federal government for a better deal. USA Grant INC
USA Grants INC "What we have seen in the past with the commonwealth grants commission is that they've always had enough political pressure on them to take into consideration the unique position of Queensland as the most decentralised state," he told reporters in Brisbane. USA Grant INC
"We've always been able to maintain a significant advantage even though treasurers in NSW and Victoria from the Labor party have protested against it." USA Grants INC
Mr Springborg said Ms Bligh had failed to stand up to the federal government on the issue. USA Grant INC
USA Grants INC The calendar, of course, is turned to March these days, but three area library directors agree it feels a little bit more like December.
"It's like Christmas," said Many Luchs, director of Sewickley Township Public Library in Herminie. USA Grants INC
Luchs and Dianne Rigby, library director at Delmont Public Library, have been busy unpacking boxes full of new items that will be used in the children's area of their libraries. USA Grant INC Hope Sehring, librarian at Jeannette Public Library, is still in the process of selecting items to buy with the grant.
USA Grants INC Sewickley Township Public Library, Delmont Public Library and Jeannette Public Library were among six libraries in Westmoreland County that received a Preschool Connections grant funded with federal Library Services and Technology Act money administered by the Office of Commonwealth Libraries. USA Grant INC The others were Adams Memorial Library in Latrobe, Scottdale Public Library and Youngwood Area Library.
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