Joining Sky News’ Laura Jayes on AM Agenda to discuss the plight of our agricultural industries from fruit growers to abattoirs from the shortage of labour. While the NSW government today threw a lifeline in offering to foot half the quarantine cost for overseas farm workers, the Victorian Labor government’s dragged the chain to the…
Great to promote the fabulous Hunter region and its diverse range of industries from coal mining, agribusiness, thoroughbreds and wine to name a few – and what the Nationals are doing to build on jobs and opportunities – on ABC News Breakfast this morning. It’s regions like the Hunter that will play a key role…
Great to catch up with Sky News’ Kieran Gilbert to talk about the government’s latest ministerial reshuffle and boost in female representation around the cabinet table; why the Nationals advocate against quotas having tripled female representation without them; and the Nats work with industry in the Hunter region focusing on manufacturing, jobs and opportunities. Watch…
(*Watch Senator McKenzie question AWI CEO Stuart McCullough here.) BY Matt Coughlan Australian wool’s market research arm identified North Korea as a potential export option despite harsh trade sanctions against the oppressive dictatorship. Australian Wool Innovation, which is funded half through farmers’ levies and half by taxpayers, has come under fire for naming the rogue…
Nationals Senators are calling on the big banks to stop putting their politically charged climate policies ahead of the jobs of hardworking Australians. Leader of the Nationals in the Senate and Senator for Victoria, Bridget McKenzie, along with NSW Nationals Senator Perin Davey, used today’s Senate Estimates to urge the industry’s watchdog to call out…
(Watch the senate estimates exchange between Senator McKenzie and AWI CEO Stuart McCullough here.) By Chris McLennan Australia’s wool industry was given a slap on the wrist in Federal Parliament yesterday for inadvertently planning to breach trade sanctions against North Korea. Australian Wool Innovation chief executive officer Stuart McCullough came under tough questioning in a…
(*Watch estimates exchange between Senator McKenzie and AWI CEO Stuart McCullough here.) By national rural reporter Kath Sullivan Australia’s major wool research and marketing body has been forced to back down after identifying North Korea as an emerging market for Australian producers in a strategic document. The taxpayer and farmer-funded Australian Wool Innovation (AWI) listed the rogue…
(*Watch Senator McKenzie’s exchange during senate estimates with AWI chief operations officer John Roberts here.) By Terry Sim AUSTRALIAN Wool Innovation has spent $6.3 million in growers’ levy funds on the WoolQ Market platform over the past five years but it has failed to generate any revenue, Senate Estimates was told yesterday. Rural and Regional…
At Senate Estimates today, the Nationals Senate Team held our national media institutions to account. For too long our media watchdog, the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA), has been asleep on the couch letting the ABC report bias programming for its city viewers. Standing up for regional Australia, the Leader of the Nationals in…
Indi to share in $6.48 million Smart Farms Small Grants funding Projects focus on supporting Australian farmers to adopt innovative practices that increase farm productivity, profitability and protection of natural resources management The Liberal and Nationals Government continues to back farmers in north-east Victoria by helping them adopt the next generation of sustainable farming practices…