Daily Archives: Wednesday, 13 March 2013

Minister Conroy hearing voices

The Nationals Senator for Victoria, Bridget McKenzie has called Federal Labor Senator Stephen Conroy to account over media regulation. During Senate question time today, Senator McKenzie grilled the Government Senator over Federal Labor’s proposed “public interest criteria” that media acquisitions would have to meet under the reforms. Labor’s Senator Conroy responded with a bumbling contradiction…

Critical inequity in Gonski Funding

Nationals Senator Bridget McKenzie has raised grave concerns at alarming evidence that Catholic Schools would be considerably worse off under the Labour Government’s new Australian education reforms.   The Senate Standing Committee on Education Employment and Workplace Relations (EEWR) has received a submission that outlines how Catholic Schools will be worse off under the Federal…