MEDIA RELEASE – 4 OCTOBER 2022 – LABOR MUST SUPPORT NATION BUILDING PROJECTS 

4 October 2022  LABOR MUST SUPPORT NATION BUILDING PROJECTS    Billions of dollars in priority road and rail funding are in doubt as Labor’s October Budget looms.  The Coalition’s 10-year infrastructure investment pipeline of $120 billion in this year’s budget included an additional $17.9 billion to priority road and rail projects.  Shadow Minister for Infrastructure…

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MEDIA RELEASE – 2 SEPTEMBER 2022 – REGIONS MUST NOT BE LEFT BEHIND IN LABOR’S ACCELERATED NET ZERO AMBITIONS

2 September 2022  Regions must not be left behind in Labor’s accelerated net zero ambitions  The Nationals in the Senate have urged the Albanese Government to re-commit Australia to a strong regional safeguard mechanism and to guarantee a first tranche of $20 billion in funding for regional Australia to enable impacted areas to take advantage…

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JOINT MEDIA RELEASE – 31 AUGUST 2022 – WATER SECURITY SHOULDN’T BE BASED ON YOUR POSTCODE 

WATER SECURITY SHOULDN’T BE BASED ON YOUR POSTCODE  31 AUGUST 2022  JOINT MEDIA RELEASE  SENATOR THE HON BRIDGET MCKENZIE Shadow Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development  SENATOR PERIN DAVEY Shadow Minister for Water  The New England region should not have its future water security limited by a short-sighted move to pull Commonwealth funding from…

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MEDIA RELEASE – LABOR MP TURNS UP HEAT ON KING OVER AVIATION POLICY – 27 JULY 2023

  MEDIA RELEASE  27 July 2023  LABOR MP TURNS UP HEAT ON KING OVER AVIATION POLICY    Divisions are erupting within the Albanese Labor Government over airlines policy as Australian families suffered through increased flight cancellations and delays in June.     Shadow Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development, Senator Bridget McKenzie said Australians are…

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MEDIA RELEASE –   Federal Commonwealth Games Probe Re-Opens Public Submissions  – 25 July 2023

MEDIA RELEASE  25 July 2023   Federal Commonwealth Games Probe Re-Opens Public Submissions   Submissions into the Senate inquiry on Australia’s preparedness to host the Commonwealth, Olympic and Paralympic Games have reopened in the wake of the Victorian Government decision to cancel the 2026 Commonwealth Games.   Shadow Infrastructure Minister, Senator Bridget McKenzie who called for…

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MEDIA RELEASE – LABOR’S TRUCKIE TAX TO DRIVE UP LIVING COSTS ON 1 JULY – 30 JUNE 2023

  MEDIA RELEASE  30 June 2023  LABOR’S TRUCKIE TAX TO DRIVE UP LIVING COSTS ON 1 JULY    The Albanese Government’s $2.6 billion inflation-worsening truckie tax will hit the nation’s freight and transport sector this weekend, from 1 July.    Shadow Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development, Senator Bridget McKenzie said increased fuel taxes…

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MEDIA RELEASE – INFRASTRUCTURE REVIEW NO LONGER ‘INDEPENDENT’ – 22 MAY 2023

   MEDIA RELEASE  22 May 2023  INFRASTRUCTURE REVIEW NO LONGER ‘INDEPENDENT’  The ability of the Independent Review into the Commonwealth Infrastructure Investment Program to conduct its deliberations independently has been fundamentally undermined by revelations in Senate Estimates today that Labor MPs have excluded their own local projects.  “Labor premiers and Labor MPs, including the Minister…

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