Caught up with Sky News Australia’s Laura Jayes to discuss the upcoming senate inquiry hearing into the Australia Post and the standing down of CEO Christine Holgate. 2500 licensees, small business owners, the majority of which are in country towns around Australia had a very unfinancially viable future until Christine Holgate came along and negotiate…
Former Australia Post CEO Christine Holgate will be the star witness at a Senate Inquiry into the purchase of luxury Cartier watches for executives who landed a lucrative deal for regional post offices. Senator McKenzie speaks to Radio National’s Fran Kelly about the inquiry including the watches gifted to senior executives that “pale into insignificance”…
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…
Joining Matt Wordsworth on ABC News Afternoon Briefing, welcoming the National Women’s Safety Summit to be held in late July to tackle domestic violence and providing economic empowerment and safety of women and children. Also discussing how, despite the Cartier controversy, former Australia Post CEO Christine Holgate championed rural and regional licensed post offices, delivering…
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…
Caption: Susan McDonald, Michelle Landry, Kay Hull, Bridget McKenzie, Anne Webster and Perrin Davey. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Gary Ramage New Nationals federal president Kay Hull is setting out to recruit the women who are the “backbone” of Australia’s rural and regional towns for parliament, as the junior Coalition partner’s growing number of female MPs…
Nationals Senators will tour the Hunter Region over the next three days, as part of their bid to stand up for local communities and local jobs. Leader of the Nationals in the Senate Bridget McKenzie said the Hunter Region will play a vital role in contributing to our national economic recovery, so it’s important the…
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…
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…